Thread:General MGD 109/@comment-92.15.129.47-20141103213046/@comment-1509826-20141103221419

he argued for equal rights and fought Asian imperialism; yet he stood firmly against Brittain giving up its colonial empire.

- defended Indian minorities, yet believed the ought to be civilized, which is to say, their society and their beliefs and religions, beautiful as they may be, are savage constructs in comparison to British way of life

- endorsed Israel, while simultaenously, and I cite the man speaking before the Peel Commission, that the Palestinian people had no more right to the Palestine than "a dog in a manger has the final right to the manger" and no "wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or at any rate a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place".

All of that was simply common belief of his time period. Same as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owning slaves, or Julius Ceaser seeing nothing wrong with conquering Gaul.

We can't judge a person by the standards of the present day, cause they didn't live in the present day. If we do that, then reaistically we could put every single person who was born before 1997 on this wiki.