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[–] 91 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Beat me to it. Easy to say other people should just lay down and die I guess.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yeah I guess I was being slightly unfair, still this kind of sentiment also feels like it's the best libs have to offer to Palestinians especially at this point and they absolutely aren't walking the walk themselves.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    nah, it's justified. I was just clarifying who he meant when he said that. the people quoting that are not in any way putting themselves in harm's way and moreover they're quoting someone with dogshit politics.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years 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

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