Gandhi The Racist Must Fall....

robel

This seems to be all the rage.....

"In the heart of London, in Parliament Square stands a statue of Gandhi. Admired by some as a freedom fighter, he was a racist bigot, who often called black people "kaffir", the South African equivalent of the n-word. On the 2nd of October, in the spirit of those who oppose the Confederate statues in Charlottesville, BlackLivesMatter will protest with SOAS Antifa to demand his statue comes down."

The Anti-Black Indian Supremacist #GandhiMustFall - 2 October 2017, London

Pacifico

Indeed - where does it end..

Jezza99

Seriously? You couldn't make it up......

pandemic

Except the quote has been purposefully altered he didn't use the N word, he said "raw Kaffir" which is a figure of speech, Kaffir being the Arab word for non believer i.e. non believers were treaty badly in this context, so non believer who didn't convert would often be taken as slaves historically in the Afghan region before it was Islamic.

Cliff

But as the OP says it is the South African equivalent of the N word. Which makes more sense as he was there.

Marv

This is lefty liberalism for you lads. Look at all the confederate statues that are being removed in the states. If it doesn't fall in with their views they want to remove it, suppress it or delete from history.
Same goes for free speech it's free so long as it goes with liberal views say anything that they see as bigoted, racist, sexist homophobic etc. Then it must be deleted or removed.

Toko Black

I wonder how long the planned statue of Jose Manuel Barroso in Parliament Square Garden will last before the anti-EU mob hold a rally to have it removed.

Cliff

Is it still there?

Marv

He tried to warn us

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."---George Orwell, 1984

Pacifico