Re:Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white perso...
by newen on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:28AM
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You need to look at this from his limited historical point of view instead of doing this 20/20 hindsight armchair moralizing.
Re:Mahatma Gandhi is set to become the first non-white perso...
by watwut on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:45AM
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I was addressing brabels assumptions about Germany in WWII and about Ghandi. There is putting yourself into shoes of someone from the past. And then, there is making stuff and assumptions about history so that you make defense you want to make.
And the comment I responded to did the latter instead of former. All too many people when they want to defend someone from the past will proceed into some kind alternative past, where there was nothing special about Germany pre-WWII.
The alternative past in which the last two paragraphs do not come accross as completely ridiculous but feel good nonsense. That has little to do with Ghandi.
> Gandhi's letters you linked to only show how he tried as hard as he could to diplomatically convince Hitler that war was not the only solution... imagine if he had succeeded in that, how much suffering could have been avoided!
I would really like to know what you think the Hitlers problem was. The problems I am aware about were generally solvable only by the war and violence.
> he was a world leader and addressing him like you probably would like Gandhi to have done, as a despicable human being, would probably only contribute to Hitler's warring inclinations.
No, really not as he was planning the war for years already by that point. At that point Ghandhi or anybody elses foreign acceptance was completely moot.