Ghandi used to sleep next to naked teenagers, what?
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devolution@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
And why do good people do “shitty” things? MLK Jr. was having affairs with white women while protesting civil rights and Gahndi used to sleep next to naked teenagers.
The answer is humans are nuanced.
Magnum@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
devolution@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
To test his will. It’s fucked up.
Magnum@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
Whaaaat???
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
people also justify and re-interpret their actions in real time.
on the outside looking at the past, we have hindsight and context and oftentimes a different cultural and historical set of standards than other societies and other times had.
I find it particularly baffling when people like go back and read 18th century books and think they are bad people because they were racist or something. At that time, not being racist would have made you the moral outlier, just like being atheistic would.