I lost respect when I learned of Gandhiâs body hatred and even more that he refused to have sex with his wife for the last thirty-eight years of their marriage (in fact he felt that people should have sex only three or four times in their lives) I lost even more [respect] when I found out that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he had beautiful young women lie next to him naked through the night: evidently his wife - whom he described as looking like a âmeek cowâ - was no longer desirable enough [to] be a solid test
Yeah, Gandhi was an unbelievably selfish individual. My biggest reason for losing respect for him, though, was that he criticized the Jews for defending themselves against the Holocaust â he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to âshameâ the Germans instead of fighting back.
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âŚ. In order to shame the Germans? WTF? The Germans wouldnâtâve been shamed - theyâdâve been thrilled to get their way so easily!
Gandhiâs exact words were: âBut the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcherâs knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.â He also wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it meant accepting genocide:
âI would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.â
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he was also anti-black (lost all respect for him after reading how he treated sub-saharan africans).
http://www.trinicenter.com/WorldNews/ghandi4.htm
read this. everyone needs to know gandhiâs âtrue colorsâ.Â
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Ghandi was a pedophile, to boot.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MY ENTIRE LIFE THANK YOU
I CANNOT FUCKING STAND THE WAY HE IS PORTRAYEDÂ
HE WAS AN ABUSER WHO HIT HIS WIFE AND HIS DAUGHTERS ALSO
He also refused his wife medication that would have saved her life [for religious reasons], but when he himself was in a similar position decided that it was okay to make an exception.
He was extremely misogynist, in fact he undermined any progress that might have been made in womenâs rights in India. He was also racist against Black people in South Africa. He was deeply hypocritical in many ways.
"The difference between a prostitute and a woman using contraceptives is only this- the former sells her body to many men and the latter sells it one man." - GandhiÂ
Nooooo Gandhi, what happened.
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Reblogging again cuz itâs so good
Well⌠Fuck. I used to believe in that Ghandi was a good man
Exactly why to this day when someone quotes or reblogs Ghandi in a positive enlightenment guru speak my respect drops for them little by little.
