Not negotiated and tried to look like Gandhi.
Do you think the police were trying to make the protestors look like Gandhi? Or are you saying the British should not have negotiated with Gandhi? I know about the movie, and about Gandhi.
I meant the police and administrators were strutting and trying to look like someone they thought was admirable for peace like the alleged and phony public image of Gandhi. But actually they were cowardly in not confronting the Leftists.
I hate Gandhi and he is one of my favorite whipping boys for the harm done by nonviolence.
Briefly from NPR (to show I’m open to the other side):
In 1903, when Gandhi was in South Africa, he wrote that white people there should be “the predominating race.” He also said black people “are troublesome, very dirty and live like animals.”
He thought in his 20s that Europeans are the most civilized. Indians were almost as civilized, and Africans were uncivilized,”
“He was also obsessed with his own celibacy. In his late 70s, before he died at 78, he slept naked with his grandniece when she was in her late teens. He said he wanted to test his willpower to abstain from sex.
Nowadays, most people would call that abuse. Some question whether the young female was capable of giving consent as a minor to a man who was so revered and so much more powerful than she.”
One quote: “He could have got us freedom way before’ if he had been willing to use violence.”
A drawback: “His absolute insistence on nonviolence, which young men see as pussyfooted and weak-kneed and — dare I say — feminine and hence not macho enough,” says Guha, the biographer.
((From NPR website: Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, But His Attitudes On Race And Sex Are Under Scrutiny
October 2, 2019))