Reply #26: What's wrong with disagreeing with Gandhi?

[JoeyT]

I've read up on Gandhi and read his own words.

"A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir."

"It is one thing to register natives who would not work, and whom it is very difficult to find out if they absent themselves, but it is another thing -and most insulting - to expect decent, hard-working, and respectable Indians, whose only fault is that they work too much, to have themselves registered and carry with them registration badges."

"Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, 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."

"A little judicious extra taxation would do no harm; in the majority of cases it compels the native to work for at least a few days a year."

Kaffir = insulting term for native Africans, by the way. Kinda like the "N" word in the US.


So we're not allowed to question screaming racists just because they've said some good things too? Shall we turn to the wisdom of the Grand Wizard next?