Why Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Were Dead Wrong
Why Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Were Dead Wrong.
By
David Gottfried
Gandhi and King are celebrated and veritably idolized for being the architects and proponents of the belief that non violence was an effective means of fighting tyranny and oppression.
However, their nonviolent tactics were only successful because their adversaries were among the least malignant oppressors in the world.
Yes, America has many, many sins. Yes, America has a long and sorry history of slavery. But America is light years ahead of so many other cultures which the deluded so called progressive class admires. Today, I read an article in the New York Times which noted that in much of black Africa there is an upsurge in female genital mutilation and that young black African girls routinely receive clitorectomies at the age of ten and are then promptly married off for money or its equivalent in goods. And then I remembered that in the Mid 1990’s when black Hutus slaughtered black Tutsis in Rwanda, Hutus were not content to merely kill their victims. Rather, they would also disembowel Tutsis and wear their intestines as a necklace.
What do you think would have happened if a Tutsi in Rwanda had staged a sit in, or sang protest songs?
Yes, Great Britain was a big, macho braggart, fancying itself the English Lion. But who were a bigger menace to the Hindus of India? The Brits or the Muslims, who proselytize by means of the funeral pyre. And where did Karl Marx find refuge from the German junkers who wanted him dead? In London. Where else? And where did Freud find refuge after Hitler took over Austria ? Again, London.
Do you think the noted Muslim and cannibal, Idi Amin, would have listened patiently to peaceful protestors who wrote pamphlets.
What do you think Adolf Hitler would have done if European Jews sang Kumbaya and plaintively asked, ala Rodney King, “Can’t we all just get along.”
Non violence had some measure of success in rebellions against the Brits and the Americans because we are gentler, more civilized and kinder than so many other nationalities. We are better than the sadistic butchers of Nazi Germany, the theocratic murderers of Islam, the animalistic barbarians of Africa, etc.
Oh, and by the way, I know that overly refined petty intellectual twerps think it is in poor taste to make distinctions between different groups of people, and to make generalizations, but all intellectual growth begins with making distinctions and generalizations. The notion that all inferential reasoning should be discarded because it may be prejudicial is akin to amputating a good part of your cerebrum.
Sometimes a gun has more intelligence that a peaceful, prickless professor.