The quotes you posted from Ghandi were vilely racist, and I pointed out why. Had Ghandi said it would be cruel or unfair to "impose" undocumented Mexicans upon the Americans, or undocumented Arabs upon the French or Spanish, that would be denounced by everyone as disgustingly racist. Yet when he says it about Jews and Arabs, based on the religion and the ethnicity of the immigrant, it's okay. Not to mention Ghandi's professed puzzlement as to why Jews couldn't be happy living in the Germany of 1938, or the other lands (arab lands, in particular) in which they were third-class citizens. Unless Ghandi was ignorant or imbecilic (and he was neither), then his statements could only be viewed as racist. At the time he wrote them, it is the exact equivalent of a statement in 1916 blithely saying, "I don't see why Armenians can't be satisfied with their lives in the Ottoman empire, as equal Ottoman citizens?"
Another double standard. |
