Posted on 05/24/2011 6:16:51 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
Gandhi. Leftists have embraced him as their Jesus figure. Gore is an admirer. They can keep him. He was the vegetarian Neville Chamberlain of his day. From Andrew Roberts in The Wall Street Journal:
Joseph Lelyveld has written a generally admiring book about Mohandas Gandhi, the man credited with leading India to independence from Britain in 1947. Yet “Great Soul” also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who was often downright cruel to those around him. Gandhi was therefore the archetypal 20th-century progressive -intellectual, professing his love for ¬mankind as a concept while actually ¬despising people as individuals.
The late Gandhi was sheltered in mansions by his elite friends, and could afford his luxurious philosophy, far away from the stench of gas ovens. It was a charming existence. Adored by chardonnay socialists and seasonal libertarians alike, Hollywood remembers him as a messiah figure. Sure. Christians tried to assassinate Hitler but they were all Christian-y.
Gandhi oozed arrogance. When confronted with Nazism, he urged the Jews to appease, advising them to peacefully protest, in order “to melt Hitler’s heart.” He referred to the vegetarian German Führer as “My friend” in letters, because he needed talk therapy? In truth, Hitler, the vegetarian, had been coddled enough in Germany’s therapeutic progressive prison system, for months. This time he needed to be exposed – not protected; shot –not mothered.
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…Uncensored history remembers him as an obsessive, explains Paul Johnson:
In his local language, Gujarati, Gandhi means ‘grocer’, and both he and his mother, from whom he inherited chronic constipation, were obsessed by the bodily functions and the ingress and egress of food. This preoccupation was intensified when he went to London and moved in vegetarian circles.
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Which also pretty much describes liberaltarians as a group
lol
There is nothing so despicable as a pacifist. A person so afraid of soiling their soul that they will not wreak violence against evil people harming the innocent. They are the necessary accessories to the truly evil. Even if cowardice of the soul is not a cover for physical cowardice, it has allowed most of the world’s evil to flourish.
Haha.
I know nothing of Indian politics, but I have worked and talked with many Indian engineers in my line of work. Never did meet one who had anything good to say about Ghandi.
Too right – Stalin and Hitler secretly loved pacifists.
You’re describing political correctness.
It’s most famous proponent was Pontius Pilate.
interesting.... he is revered by leftists in the west
You got that right! bttt
Mohandas "Mahatma" Ghandi
The Moral Retardation of the Venerable Holy Men by Gagdad Bob 2005
"One thing I haven't yet figured out--but probably could if I gave it a little thought--is why these new-age folks automatically tilt way left and are so deeply morally confused. When your moral compass is that broken, you inevitably marshall all of your energy against what is good, and in concert with what is evil. ...Not to mention the king of all metaphysical hucksters, Deepak Chopra. He reminds me of no one so much as Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most overrated human beings in history. Gandhi also thought that it was evil to fight the great evil of his day, Hitler--in other words, Gandhi wasn't just morally confused, but morally deranged. ...." [snip]
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On the Repressed Violence of the Nonviolent ~ by Gagdad Bob 2007
".....The moral retardation of so many leftists just astonishes me. And it is literally retardation, for just as one may be mentally retarded but a decent person, one may be intellectually brilliant but a moral imbecile, as so many leftist professors prove (not that they're so brilliant, either). Violence is good or bad, depending entirely upon the uses to which it is put.
Which gives rise to an immediate corollary that even many religious people don't appreciate: that love can be good or bad, depending upon the use to which it is put -- or, to be more precise, the object to which the love is directed. For just as there is profoundly moral violence, there is profoundly immoral love, for example, the kind of corrupt and immoral love expressed by one of the most overrated human beings of all time, Mohandas Gandhi. Just as knowledge that knows falsehood is not really knowledge, love that improperly loves evil (for there are properly severe ways to love the evildoer) is a kind of hatred. [......] Gandhi's monstrous behavior to his own family is notorious." ..." [snip]
I think you malign Pontius Pilate. He was in no way a good man, just a weak one. He certainly did not shy away from violence. He should not IMHO be consigned to that level of hell designated for pacifists.
I can’t remember where I read it, but some high society folks around the Wagner’s used to make fun of Hitler because he passed gas so much. This was due to his vegetarianism.
Yeah, the word “coward” comes to my mind too.
Yeah Hitler liked his beans a little too much (my guess). I would have stood downwind.
If anyone played CIV IV they would know Gandhi was a backstabber of the worst kind.
Assuming he hadn’t bugged out, first.
I’ve often wondered what became of the woman who insulted him. Yikes!
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