• DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The Palestinians should offer themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should throw themselves into the sea from cliffs. It would arouse the world and the people of Israel.

    Gandhi, twitter, 2023

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      For context, here’s the original quote:

      An actual Holocaust reference

      Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs…It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany… As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.

      — Mahatma Gandhi, June 1946

      • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        he meant himself/Indians as well – he was that idealistic and had that poor of a understanding of why his protests worked in India. MLK was all around the much better political leader, down to reassessing his view on nonviolence.