Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and it is not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They are not unsubstantiated comments. They are well based in fact. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezj3km/gandhi-was-a-racis...

I'm not arguing about Gandhi facts. Your comment was flamebait. By unsubstantive I mean comments that add more noise than signal to a thread.

It's also against HN's rules to use it primarily for political or ideological battle. Would you mind taking the spirit of this site more to heart, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? We're here for curious conversation, not to smite enemies, and those two things can't coexist. For example, if you jump from a topic like "Disproved discoveries that won Nobel Prizes" to "Gandhi was a horrific racist", you're taking the thread in the sort of hellish direction from which the internet never returns.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If you are looking for any figure that is pure like snow and more saint than Saints, then nobody can reasonably win any kind of Award ever - you can find faults with absolutely every single one person in the Universe.

well, people do portray Gandhi and Mother Teresa as saints whereas the reality turned out that both of them were horrible individuals.

What basis do you have for saying that Gandhi was a 'horrible individual'? And I take it from the way you said that, that you see yourself as a far finer human being, is that right? (Maybe that second question is an improper one, but it does seem raised by how and what you wrote.)

> What basis do you have for saying that Gandhi was a 'horrible individual'

I'm surprised this is not more well known.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezj3km/gandhi-was-a-racis...

> you see yourself as a far finer human being, is that right

Yes. I do as I believe most people are better than Gandhi, simply by virtue of not abusing children the way Gandhi did, and numerous other crimes that he committed.