wannago
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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 Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| kabrams wrote: |
| ...I would hate to ignore history for what it is. |
Glad to hear it. Have you considered that Gandhi earned a law degree in Victorian England and, while there, he internalized a great deal of the British worldview, including its worldviews on gender and race.
Why would you hold Gandhi accountable for failing to stand outside the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, then? That is, for failing to attack racism the way we learned to do only after the late-1960s?
Such critiques strike me as absurd and childish even. It is unfair to judge people by other eras' standards. |
I agree with you totally. This is the same argument we can use to justify the actions of the South during the time of the American Civil War. We can't judge them by our standards today so they had a legitimate gripe and conern about slavery being abolished and the war itself was just a struggle between two opposing viewpoints, not right or wrong like it is so often portrayed today. |
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