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by intended 2801 days ago
I find the bad history post on Gandhi to be the shortest path to get up to speed with the current iteration of Gandhi criticism - https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3iiwxr/the_sexu...

The upshot being that as a barrister in South Africa he was privileged and racist as was the norm, but his exposure as a stretcher bearer during an uprising helped him awaken and discard that aspect of his thought.

But its always interesting to see how Gandhi gets discussed, the more people learn about him. In essence Gandhi is constantly being torn down, and constantly being rediscovered and built back up