On Pacifism, Gandhi, and the Jews
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However, this is akin to calling Mother Teresa a filthy whore, in most circles. Most people aren't gonna bite.
I remember some years back I attended a church conference and the speaker was going off on non-violence and had people getting up and giving anecdotal evidence of non-violence working. One young guy told how he was being bullied in school and had told the bully (What are you getting out of this?" and how the bully had stopped.
Right then I silently called "B.S.!" In my school if I had been stupid enough to do that I would have been pounded into jelly. Fighting back was the only thing that worked. I mean, appealing to someone's better nature is all well and good, provided they actually have a better nature to appeal to.
Reality bites. Hard.
Although they did many questionable things, when push came to shove the British were basically honorable people.
One of Neo-Neocon's commenters is right when he notes that at some point the British must have realized that if Gandhi were to call for violence, or were to be killed, they would face a horribly violent response. But this misses the larger point: the British were far too decent a people to do that early on, before he developed his massive following, when killing him or anyone else who spoke out against them would have been simple and easy and cost them almost nothing.