Gandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls to Sleep in Bed with Him

Only idiots are shaken by such articles (well, it's for the Vice audience after all).

Yes, Gandhi was human, and had many of the prejudices of his era plus some failings of his own.

What's important is not what he thought and did in situations that nearly everybody else at the time thought the same, but what he did different and what impacted great change -- which is the reason we celebrate him for.

It's like pointing out that Jefferson had slaves, or Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13yo cousin, or MLK was sleeping around as reasons to dismiss them.

Yeah, so? Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone, and also let them tell us what compared to the Declaration of Independence or Great Balls of Fire or the fight against racism have they done that was as important?

He tested his sexual patience by sleeping next to his grand-niece? Jeezus, why would your sexual patience even be an issue in that situation?

I think its important to remember everybody is human and has flaws. Hopefully those students at princeton who want to scrub Woodrow Wilson's name from everything read this and realise that.

Just because we celebrate all the good a person does in their life doesn't diminish the fact that they are human, and suffer from flaws. Sometimes its good to be reminded of this.

I guess we'll have to strip his name from all those buildings and awards, and tear down the statues.