When I was a kid in the 60s I read a biography of Schweitzer. He just seemed like a nice guy who practiced medicine. I guess that book was FULL OF LIES!
Love the scare quotes.
> But Schweitzer was also a product of his time. <
And that’s the key point. Liberals will agree with that, but only when it suits them.
Liberals:
George Washington held slaves. He was a product of his time. No matter. George Washington was a monster!
Martin Luther King thought homosexuality was a mental disorder. He was a product of his time. So let’s forgive him, and focus on the good he did.
He “…was a paternalist…”
If he did it in the b-tt, he would have been called “a great guy.”
They have to create “conflict” everywhere.
This man is a humanitarian and hero.
He wasn’t a politician and didn’t get involved in every issue like many today do in order to virtue signal.
He was a minister and doctor a healed people. He dedicated his life to this.
Everyone famous has to be gay today, and all great humanitarians or statesmen need dragged through the mud by some asshole trying to get their 15 minutes of fame with trash like this.
That describes all the European colonizers, who sent Christian missionaries and doctors into the Dark Continent, and to Asia and the Americas.
The French wanted to make all colonials "Frenchmen."
The British enthusiastically pursued Kipling's "White Man's Burden," seeing it their duty to educate, civilize, and uplift the "wogs."
Whatever one thinks about his views Albert Schweitzer spent many agonizing years in various hellholes of Africa tending to sick people and ended up dying there.
Here is the real link to the actual source.
Isn’t this the “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” guy?
Another dead white man!
Those are all bad.
Schweitzer plays Bach: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Cvh4l1GL9mXodkrP8dyMO1KeaXs1hod
The NYT liberals are dirty savages who should be so lucky that Europeans would try to civilize them. Schweitzer tried his damndest to help the health of the benighted Africans who lacked health care, education and even the rudiments of civilization.
OF COURSE Western civilization tried to help these backward peoples, and they benefitted ENORMOUSLY. Oh my god, they were a thousand years in the past and leaped forward in the space of a century. They should be on their knees thanking the Empires for their benevolent paternalism.
As a descendant of the Third World…my lovely late grandma had no problem saying it was bloody better when the bloody Britishers were here.
He felt called upon to make the population — which he described as “children without culture” — not only healthy but also “civilized.”
The monster! 🙄