S. E. Cupp says this should be taken to settle the monuments debate.
Or maybe it's just getting going.
Ghana has said it will remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus in the nation’s capital where it had sparked protests over the leader’s allegedly racist attitudes....It's ironic to see a Hindu guru from India roped up for using a slur that originates from Muslim criticisms of those who reject Islam. But of course there are plenty of reasons to criticize Gandhi; it's just that he's a kind of secular saint (who wasn't, himself, at all secular) to the very sort of American who wants to pull down other monuments.
The petition, which had more than 1,700 supporters on Thursday, cited letters Gandhi wrote during his time in South Africa as evidence that he advocated for the superiority of Indians over black Africans. It also took issue with his use of the derogatory term kaffir to refer to native Africans and criticized the lack of statues of African heroes and heroines on campus.
Still, whether it's winding down or just getting started remains to be seen.
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I don't know if we've reached peak "woke" but I think I can see it ftom here.
After they get done with statues they will start on humans.
The Harvard Crimson article had comments that were of the "so stupid only intellectuals could believe them" sort. I keep a similar essay from that year on file, which you might like: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-gandhi-nobody-knows/
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