University of Georgia TA: 'Some white people may have to die' for blacks to advance

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[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I knew someone would play the "Gandhi" record...

90% of Gandhi's success was who he opposed; the bombed-flat, exhausted, angsty former British "Empire". You know, the one where the "Sun never sets".

If he'd tried that against Hitler, Stalin, Mao or Netanyahu, nobody would have ever heard of him.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you're saying that Gandhi would not have been famous as leader of nonviolent direct action on a more violent regime, then I agree. The British were Savage imperialists, but Gandhi understood the sympathetic consensus of the British citizenry. Gandhi was also from the Brahman caste, and had elite Indian support. Other Indians would have been quickly murdered by the British.

He may still have been a freedom fighter in another regime. I doubt that he would be a badass.