re: NPR runs hit piece on Gandhi

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NPR does actual reporting and not an opinion piece. Fox-tards don't know how to handle it.

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You can't be that obtuse can you?

I mean we can link hours of your "tv news" to blow you post out of the water if you like.

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But that's not what happens today. Everything good done by a person is tossed out the window once the cult of social justice finds something they don't like.

There is no "he's flawed, but he did much good" anymore. Now it's simply "he did X, therefore he must be destroyed."

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Nowhere in the article does it say that civil disobedience is bullshite because Ghandi was racist in his twenties. It's an argument against his personal canonization not against his accomplishments.

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I mean we can link hours of your "tv news" to blow you post out of the water if you like.

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NPR is one of the sacred tenets of SJWs. They melt at any criticism of their little propaganda channel.

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Or maybe we shouldn't see history in categories like "good" and "evil". Historical figures are humans, they're flawed and complicated just like all of us. When we build them up to be myths, the reality can't live up to it and people get upset that the myths aren't real. It's actually a good article:

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I mostly agree with this sentiment but I think that it is also important to have respect for these types of historical figures and teach kids to believe in the positive works their lives produced.

While the academic mind might seek out the truth of the whole story and be able to separate the man from the myth without personally devaluing the accomplishments; most people will hear the entire story and largely blow-off lessons that should be take-aways because he is not the saint they originally perceived him/her to be.

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You act like they are the only folks following this line.

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I am?

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racist

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I'm so tired of this word. Groups of people need to be able to call out the garbage in their own race and not have problem with other races doing it for them.

See these people?



Yeah, white trash. I have no problem calling them that, nor do I have a problem with any other race calling them that.

Get over yourself. You people are unbearable.

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It's written to elicit a specific reaction, not create thought.

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I don't think these two things are mutually exclusive.

Also, as far as other provocative articles go on the subject of Gandhi. This NPR piece is mild at best.

is that Nickleback or FGL? The "it's all about the music" poster puzzles me.

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This is one of the moments where people freak out over the publication. Yet, completely ignore the fact that people have raised numerous questions about the subject over time.

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It's because they're mentally weak

So Gandhi was not perfect, not sure he claimed to be. Everyone else made him into a saint......he just was not interested in watching people die in trying to achieve Indian Independence from the British Crown.

The dude pissed and shite just like everyone else