Posted on 06/13/2020 12:46:04 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A petition to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester has received nearly 5,000 signatures.
The online petition accuses the Indian independence campaigner of being "a fascist, racist and sexual predator".
Last year, students from Manchester called for a similar statue of Gandhi to be removed because of his "well-documented anti-black racism".
Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe called the petition a "massive distraction" from the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Labour politician said Gandhi "was part of creating a movement in the same way that Martin Luther King created a movement".
"His form of peaceful protest, like Black Lives Matter, is a force for change," she said.
"There is not any desire from the black community to move that symbol of change."
Professor of Indian history at Oxford University, Faisal Devji, said he thought the debate to remove the statue was "absurd".
"It seems almost surreal to have to list the many things Gandhi did," he said.
"He's a fallible man as all men are, but to lump him in with slave owners, that's a bit much."
Prof Devji said Gandhi's statue in Leicester was also a representation of the large refugee Gujarati community in the city.
"Gandhi himself was Gujarati, and many of the [city's] residents came from Uganda when they were expelled by Idi Amin," he said.
"So in some ways Gandhi's statue represents their presence in that place."
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They are coming for the founding fathers next
Next they’ll be calling for the Boudicea statue in London to be torn down because of her “anti-immigrant” opinions.
Next up:
Helen Keller
Mother Theresa
Martin Luther King (yep!)
There goes Mount Rushmore...
Liberals, always wanting to destroy someone else’s history while trying to promote their own.
This has gotten humorous. I can’t even care anymore. MLK will be next with these wackadoodles.
At this point they are just trolling.
Anyone know if Cracker Barrel will be changing their name?
Brought to you by people that wear Che shirts
Yep, total ignorant morons.
It’s now Spook Barrel.
How about Nigga Barrel? Or Gangsta Barrel?
;^)
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It’ll really be fun when the BLMers try to deface or demolish Stone Mountain, GA.
Been bloody riots there already. Outside Atlanta, the Entitled People are outnumbered.
Or, The Statue of Liberty.
Sounds like “riot envy” going on in England ...
Dear liberals... history is not for you to like or dislike. It’s there to learn from.
Gandhi was killed for being too nice with the Muslims.
Already happening.
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