Wasn’t ghandi a racist pedophile?
Yep. Just like people such as Mother Teresa, they were venerated for the few good things they did while every other horrible detail about them was covered up.
Definitely not like Mother Teresa. Ghandi can still be significantly linked to Indian independence. His philosophies are still highly relevant to non violent revolution and still contributed greatly to American civil rights. Basically like all people he was imperfect, but he’s definitely not an insignificant thinker like Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa was pure evil all the time, actively harmed thousands, and contributed nothing to philosophy or politics.
And no ghandi did not fuck kids. He was racist though.
Which honestly is as it should be. I personally prefer looking at the good rather than the bad, because whatever you look for, you will find.
So we’re talking about fucking kids here and hate fueled by ignorance, I don’t think that’s really an out of site out mind kind of situation.
I think it is. Public figures like these become representatives of the ideas they’re known for. We care about Ghandi’s nonviolence, not his racism or weird sexual nonsense. The further back in history you go, the less their personal lives matter.
If you’re making a movie or writing a book about them, sure, display their failures as well. But a person doing bad things doesn’t make the great things they did any less great.
Imagine eliminating all philosophical figures that were eugenicists. Wed have to start over.
No ghandi didn’t fuck kids. It’s weirder than that, but he wasn’t a criminal.
