Was Mahatma Gandi a racist?

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What factual knowledge do you contain to make this statement? Please elaborate and formally state your sources. Some Indian boy named Ishaan Tharoor is not a legitimate source.

>>1514769
Of course he wasn't, only white people can be racist.

>>1515154
>Implying organisations like Nation of Islam and Black Lives Matter, were not racists

>>1514769
because maybe him being a racist is irrelevant?
it doesn't detract from his achievements.

>>1515165
>A man who struggled against racism and colonialism being a racist himself is not a big deal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-britains-planned-mahatma-gandhi-statue/

hmm, India's bureaucracy was set up by the British and future democratic institutions would draw a lot from it yet Ishaan claims Indian democracy was 100% Indian and grass roots

>>1515170
What does racism nesccesarially have to do with colonialism?
And when did he struggle against racism?

>>1515300
Colonialism is inextricable from 19th century European colonialism.

He struggled with racism in South Africa, in India and anywhere else he encountered white people

Could we maybe not idolize historical figures and add them to our modern, post-religious hagiography?

Why should the fact a man is horribly flawed detract from your adherence to his principles, if such be your desire?

>>1514769
He was a nationalist. In fact, that was basically his main movement. Indian Nationalism.

Didn't the Indian government purchase letters he wrote about people so not to tarnish his name

>gandhi grows up in an education and social system that regards blacks as inferior whites as superior and indians in between.
>struggles against it during his stay in south africa, going so far as to defend poor indians for free.
>forms his philosophy there, and also has a huge impact on the south african independence movement by mandela.

>>1515189
ah yes, because the socialist state that was set up in india since independence and the panchayat system of grassroots government is totally a british institution.

>>1514769
But he changed his viewpoints on Blacks though after he got nearly lynched by whites twice and beaten by a mob of Indian clients in South Africa

Gandhi started his whole campaigning because Indians were forcibly integrated with blacks in White South Africa. White supremacy wasn't the trigger, equality with blacks was.

>>1515324
There was always this big dissonance in being Anglicized/Eurocized and the reality that betrays the whole "ape us, copy us, suck our cultural dicks and you will be British/other imperial powers like Japan etc and you'll be British like any other" notion for many reasons. Your "Proof of Humanity/Civility" can easily be disregarded or null in many ways.

>>1515812
Indians had their own institutes though although of inferior quality and were separate from other races. Indians had several key things to distinguish themselves from other non-white groups.

Yes and so was Winston Churchill. How does that in any way effect his importance?

>>1515170
>A man who struggled against racism
he struggled against certain types of racism. thinking niggers are subhumans doesn't make him a hypocrite.
it makes him right