• Star Wars Enjoyer A
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    5 years ago

    never forget Gandhi was a racist who was very open about wanting to get the English out of India, so India could get the Africans to go back home. Not as a “slavery is bad, free them and send them where they were taken from” but as a “black people are inferior and don’t belong in India”

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      5 years ago

      Sounds like the exact reason why Gandhi is taught to us in school. Except they dont mention any of the bad parts.

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        5 years ago

        He and MLK are chosen because they were “peaceful” and the politics can be stripped out of their movements, to instil in children that violence isn’t a valid means of bringing change. I.E. they’re used to indoctrinate children into refusing to revolt against the state.

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        5 years ago

        I haven’t seen this, but I def will now. I found some papers online that talked about Gandhi’s life that included quotes from him, and talked about his racial and kinda bullshit politics.