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Ghandi wasn’t a good person. Pass it on

Okay, seeing that there are no sources given here, I will add some. I am not an expert on ghandi, but here are some articels and books to give you an opinion about him:

He wanted the Jews to commited public mass suicide to ‘shame’ the germans

Women suffer from Ghandi’s legacy

On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people

Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People 

Books: Sex and Power by Rita Banerji, On Pacifism by Derrick Jensen,  The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

People, if we discuss historical figures, let’s not throw our arguments unsourced around.

Ghandi had a magnificent impact on India and was undoubtedly important for the country. Without him, India might have not been freed of british rule and that colonialism is not good I don’t think I have to explain.

So, yes, Ghandi did great things and was/is important, but we should at the same time keep in mind that he was a deeply flawed person, not a Saint.

And to those who say, that we can’t judge a historical Person by modern Standards: even by the Standards of Ghandi’s time some of his actions went way too far and shocked his supporters, for example when he slept besides naked young women. That was not normal then and it is not normal now, so, yeah, we have a point by saying that Ghandi was flawed.

Can we talk about how he forced his wife to die of illness because he didn’t believe in foreign medical treatments but when he got sick after her death, he sought foreign treatment for malaria and later appendicitis?

Also the thing is he’s not even special in terms of not having possessions? He has twice as many worldly possessions as every Digambara Jain monk? Digambara monks don’t even wear clothes?