249, I thought I'd start a new thread addressing your links. So I take it a Kaffir is a black right?
I assume that if Gandhi was racist it's only because the white rulers were much more racist!
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can't discuss a topic with a person who is being so blatantly lazy.
First, you ask me to locate and link to the racist comments that I alluded to Gandhi making. And apparently, you aren't able to place those comments in context of the place they were made .Even a random google search or simple reading about South Africa's history would indicate that the word in question is an offensive slur and not a synonym for "Black"
laziness, plain and simple..
249, YOU are the one who is a damn fool! You have NO idea what you're saying! I've actually spoken to someone who lived in British India and the British were openly racist and didn't bother to hide it!
So Gandhi was simply emulating his British rulers since they are the ones who made it seem like the right thing to do! Think before you talk MORON!
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Was Gandhi racist?
People change, especially people like Gandhi, you can't hold statements he made early in his life with his actions later on. He was not a racist as in he didn't view even the "whites" differently.
shareLooks like Gandhi was a racist but be fair because the British instituted VERY racist policies so he just went along.
Unfortunately, these people were never acquainted with the real, historical Mohandas Gandhi, who was a virulent racist.
Gandhi was hired to work as an attorney for wealthy Indian traders in South Africa. He moved there in 1893 and soon helped establish the Natal Indian Congress. The goal of this Congress was to “promote concord and harmony among the Indians and Europeans residing in the colony [of South Africa].” Instead of concord and harmony with the blacks, however, Gandhi promoted racial segregation. The major achievement of the Congress was the successful attempt, spear-headed by Gandhi, to fix the Durban post office “problem.” This issue is discussed in-depth here.
In 1904, Gandhi founded The Indian Opinion, a newspaper which he used as a political tool to promote his personal views. It is in this paper, which Gandhi edited until 1914, that we find a record of his extensive anti-black activism and opinions. A list of anti-black quotes from his writings, in which he invariably refers to the South African natives as “Kaffirs,” can be found here. Gandhi's opinion of the native is best summarized when he calls them people “whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
Finally, in 1906, Gandhi cheered on the British as they waged a war on the black Zulus. He then volunteered for military service himself, attaining the rank of Sgt. Major in the British Army and assisting the war on blacks in every way he could. You can learn more about this here.
http://www.gandhism.net/gandhiandblacks.php
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He was a terrible and abusive father. He said a lot of fucked up shit about Africans while living as a young lawyer in South-Africa… while in Africa, he was upset to see Indian people classified in the same way as the black natives, he did not want to be associated with the “kaffirs and negroes” and felt they were below him as an Indian.share
Gandhi, in later life, also manipulated little girls into having a bath with him and sleeping naked in his bed as "an ultimate test of his purity and chastity". He did so while married.
Mahatma Gandhi was also accused of acting as an apologist for the caste system in India. In 1932, he resorted to fasting ‘to block an affirmative action’ planned by Britain in favour of the outcastes, the so-called ‘untouchables’.
The most telling example of Gandhi’s nasty personality was when his wife fell ill in the 1940s. Doctors told Gandhi his wife would survive if given modern medicine, but he refused to allow it... So she actually died, for lack of medical care. Years later he himself was stricken with malaria and he gladly allowed foreign medication to save his life. Hypocrite much?
Yeah he may have done a lot of good things for his country and I won’t deny it. But he doesn’t seem to have been a very nice man in dealing with those closest to him, and he had a mean streak to him. Whatever things he did for his people and his nation to attain freedom… he was still a deeply unpleasant person in hs personal life.
Everyone was racist back then, believing your own kind is better than others is natural. People are still racist now as well but of course it is ok as long as they aren't white.
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