The Palestinians should offer themselves to the butcher's knife. They should throw themselves into the sea from cliffs. It would arouse the world and the people of Israel.
he meant himself/Indians as well -- he was that idealistic and had that poor of a understanding of why his protests worked in India. MLK was all around the much better political leader, down to reassessing his view on nonviolence.
Yeah I guess I was being slightly unfair, still this kind of sentiment also feels like it's the best libs have to offer to Palestinians especially at this point and they absolutely aren't walking the walk themselves.
nah, it's justified. I was just clarifying who he meant when he said that. the people quoting that are not in any way putting themselves in harm's way and moreover they're quoting someone with dogshit politics.
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.
Gandhi, twitter, 2023
Beat me to it. Easy to say other people should just lay down and die I guess.
he meant himself/Indians as well -- he was that idealistic and had that poor of a understanding of why his protests worked in India. MLK was all around the much better political leader, down to reassessing his view on nonviolence.
Yeah I guess I was being slightly unfair, still this kind of sentiment also feels like it's the best libs have to offer to Palestinians especially at this point and they absolutely aren't walking the walk themselves.
nah, it's justified. I was just clarifying who he meant when he said that. the people quoting that are not in any way putting themselves in harm's way and moreover they're quoting someone with dogshit politics.
For context, here’s the original quote:
An actual Holocaust reference
— Mahatma Gandhi, June 1946