• Guy_Dudeman [comrade/them,he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      That's a very twisted misinterpretation of his words and intentions. I found this interesting from the article:

      In March 1939, Shohat spent four days speaking to Gandhi at his ashram and emerged discouraged, feeling that Gandhi had adopted an Arab perspective of Zionism.

      Based Gandhi.

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        :michael-laugh: The professional Gandhi defender is clicking through to the 4-month old thread to defend Gandhi.

        https://hexbear.net/post/116165/comment/1309425


        Cool, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the Holocaust and the following Gandhi quote.

        “Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs…It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany… As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.”

        Also, same thread:

        “Gandhi advocated only for non-violent resistance to the Nazis and sent a conciliatory letter to Adolf Hitler in which he addressed the Fuhrer as a “friend” and wrote that he did not believe the German dictator was the “monster” his opponents described.”