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Ghandi: Irredeemable racist, or product of his time? Statue taken down in Ghana
MSN ^ | 12/16/18

Posted on 12/16/2018 5:19:09 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Mahatma Ghandi is known as a beacon of peace and the nonviolent leader who helped India extract itself from British colonial rule. But his writings use racial slurs and stereotypes against people from African nations.

A controversial statue of Mahatma Ghandi has been removed from the University of Ghana on the grounds that the peace icon was too much of a racist to be on display as a pioneer for equality.

The statue came down overnight earlier this week, according to Al Jazeera, after protests from both students and faculty that erupted as soon as the statue was erected on the main campus in Accra, the capital.

An online petition launched in September 2016, asking that the statue be removed, had garnered 2,267 signatures of the 2,500 it was looking for. It was not clear whether this contributed to the statue’s removal, as university authorities did not comment to Al Jazeera. A Ghana official told Al Jazeera that it was "an internal decision by the university.”

Ghandi is famous for spearheading nonviolent action against colonialism. But critics say he was blatantly racist when it came to Africans. He lived and worked in South Africa for years.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: kaffir
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2018: EVERYTHING IS RACIST!!!
1 posted on 12/16/2018 5:19:09 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Didn’t Ghandi live in Africa for a while?


2 posted on 12/16/2018 5:20:24 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

He practiced law in South Africa during the late 1890s or so.


3 posted on 12/16/2018 5:24:02 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

The Kaffir Wars were fought against the Kaffirs.


4 posted on 12/16/2018 5:24:14 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

You don’t have to like every other people or culture.


5 posted on 12/16/2018 5:24:24 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

‘Product of his time’ doesn’t seem to be working for slave-owning Founders, and is only recently slipping off the shoulders of Woodrow Wilson. History, once agreed upon, should probably be left alone.


6 posted on 12/16/2018 5:33:04 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
A controversial statue of Mahatma Ghandi has been removed from the University of Ghana on the grounds that the peace icon was too much of a racist to be on display as a pioneer for equality.

Ghandi supporters should reveal she was a Gay Transvestite undergoing Sex reassignment, and she identified as a 17 year old Black autistic girl.

That would give Ghandi enough PC points to go to the top of the Entitled, Offended Elite pecking order, and save his statue.

7 posted on 12/16/2018 5:33:26 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Nobody at msn knows how to spell “Gandhi”?


8 posted on 12/16/2018 5:39:48 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

There’s that word again, “irredeemable”.

What gives a liberal the godlike right to proclaim someone irredeemable, particularly someone who acccomplished a lot of good?


9 posted on 12/16/2018 5:44:41 PM PST by Crucial
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

All he was saying was the British wanted to keep Indians at the primitive level of Africans at the time.


10 posted on 12/16/2018 5:51:19 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

On the bright side, we can now accuse Liberals quoting Gandhi that they’re “racist”.


11 posted on 12/16/2018 5:51:53 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah he did, and I remember seeing some things he wrote about black Africans that I knew would upset the perpetually indignant. Not being a Gandhi fan I find this amusing.


12 posted on 12/16/2018 5:55:54 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I’m so disappointed in Ghana.


13 posted on 12/16/2018 5:57:59 PM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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"Having his statue means that we stand for everything he stands for,” law student Nana Adoma Asare Adei told BBC News,...

Only if you think it does, you ignorant kaffir! lol

14 posted on 12/16/2018 6:02:38 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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Nobody at msn knows how to spell “Gandhi”?

Most of them struggle to spell their own names correctly.

15 posted on 12/16/2018 6:06:17 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Navy Patriot

“Ghandi supporters should reveal she was a Gay Transvestite undergoing Sex reassignment, and she identified as a 17 year old Black autistic girl.”

And on the rag...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3713357/posts


16 posted on 12/16/2018 6:10:15 PM PST by aquila48
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

He wasn’t black enough.


17 posted on 12/16/2018 6:16:52 PM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: All

Oh dear, what a to do.


18 posted on 12/16/2018 6:18:34 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
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Oh dear, what a to do.


19 posted on 12/16/2018 6:18:34 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

India would be better off if they had listened more to Winston Churchill.


20 posted on 12/16/2018 6:25:38 PM PST by Track9 (How hot a fire it will be when each Dem gets their due..)
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