hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts today we're going to be doing a interesting reaction
video this one is actually going to have some relations to do with india and i've not done
that any at all on this channel foreign reacts so uh first of all welcome to foreign reacts
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but either ways guys we're gonna be checking out the ugly truth about gandhi hope i'm saying that
correctly but i've seen this man before i don't know his history but i want to learn today about
this man so well without further ado guys let's get right into this episode of foreign reacts
the great mahatma gandhi a hero of india a man who through a campaign of non-violence freed
his country from the clutches of british imperialists he was not just a father of
his nation but for some he was considered almost saintly he also liked to sleep alone in beds with
his grand nieces and other young women and held some shockingly racist views toward other races
today we'll shock some of you we might even offend some of you but we also think by the time
we got to the end of this show you will have also changed your mind as how you think about mr gandhi
before we get to that here's an abridged introduction to bro this this kind of seems
interesting bro y'all don't get mad at me i'm just i'm just the reactor so if he said nothing bad
anything that is not true don't get mad at me i'm just trying to react i'm just trying to
hear what i'm trying to hear so y'all can co-sign if you're from india co-sign this and let me know
is this really true you know what i'm trying to say the man born mohandas karamchad gandhi on
october 2nd 1869. he grew up in fairly comfortable surroundings seeing that his father held the
position of chief minister of the indian state of porbandar his mother was said to be a very pious
woman which is where the young gandhi discovered the beliefs of cherishing the simple things in
life the religious devotion he saw by his mother would foster him a sense of ethics that he later
became famous for on a global scale things such as non-violence tolerance of others beliefs
vegetarianism and acts of self-purification were his badge they were also steeped in hypocrisy at
times his beliefs were put to the test when he went over to london to study before he
left india he swore to his mom to not fall for the enticements of modern life to stay clear of
women and meat and generally to uphold the beliefs she taught him but while studying law in london he
witnessed late 19th century industry and all the horrors that could come with it the streets of
london were certainly not paved with gold far from it many londoners with their ragged clothes and
dirty faces didn't seem to be enjoying britain's industrial wealth gandhi witnessed poverty but he
also witnessed activism there it was the same when he went over to south africa where he saw much of
the population living in abject poverty gandhi might have been an educated lawyer by this time
but that didn't mean he wasn't told like other indians that because of his skin color he wasn't
allowed to walk on certain footpaths or enter certain buildings there's more to this story
but let's just tell you the good gandhi's story first he was disgusted there he was an educated
man who considered himself as much english as he was indian but treated as a second class citizen
by the europeans one time he was kicked out of a train coach because of his race like many other
people of color his rights were taken away from him on other occasions he was beaten up for not
making room for a white passenger that wasn't bad enough he was barred for staying at certain hotels
even though he had the money to pay for them the story goes that gandhi understood the many wrongs
committed by the imperialists and so was at this juncture in his life when he decided he was going
to bring about change but his resistance in line with his religious beliefs had to be peaceful
one of the most famous lines is every revolution begins with a single act of defiance
and this is how he began fighting for the rights of indians this is how he got a name for himself
as an activist which on one dark day in durban south africa almost got him lynched by a mob
of angry white folks he spent several years in south africa but he knew that india needed him
when he announced his departure from africa a statesman wrote the saint has left our shores this
statesman was a white south african he finished the sentence i hope forever back in india gandhi
carried on fighting for people's rights he'd been beaten up he'd been jailed he'd been harangued and
oppressed and he still preached peace he might have supported the british war effort but he
also never shied away from criticizing the british imperialist we apologize to our gandhi enthusiasts
for skipping over many years of his life but we think most of you know that this man became one
of the most powerful people in india his form of indian nationalism was embraced by much of the
country most of the country in fact and they started to believe that with the right will
the indian people could be free of the british his activism got him arrested on march 10 1922 and he
spent the next two years behind bars but he wasn't done by any means in the years to follow he would
lead many of the indian people to peacefully revolt against many facets of the british rule
his followers and there were many went to prison for their acts of civil disobedience in 1932
while in prison again he undertook a now famous fast over the disenfranchisement of those at the
bottom of india's caste system people called the untouchables when indians saw how willing
gandhi was to die for his people for the rights of the country's poorest it spread hope through
the hearts of the nation then the second world war happened and again the indians were expected
to fight for the british but this time the indian national congress wanted a form of self-government
if it were to throw indian nationals onto the battlefield close to 90 000 of them would
eventually die not to mention the perhaps two and a half million total indian casualties of war
before the war ended ghani had already started the quit india movement and then on august 15
1947 india finally got its independence okay so what you've just heard is the condensed story of
a man who saw cruelty and unfairness in the world and wanted to do something about it
he then took considerable risks in fighting the perpetrators of those wrongs and he
made it his life's work it's now time we got into costume and became the devil's advocate
here's a quote for you hitler killed 5 million jews it's the greatest crime of our time
but the jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife they should have thrown themselves
into the sea from cliffs it would have aroused the world and the people of germany as it is they
succumbed anyway in their millions yes those were the thoughts of gandhi he was taking non-violence
to another level and he was not surprisingly condemned for saying such things while his
belief might not exactly fall into an ugly truth category his moral absolutism made no sense at
all to some people especially those under attack from germany when the nazis were bombing england
gandhi seemed to think the brit should not bother fighting back this is what he said about that
he seems really peaceful he seems like he's trying to keep the peace all the time he's trying to
keep the peace all the time that's i can't really fight him on that like i can't really argue right
that's just his belief right you gotta just respect that but that's kind of crazy bro he
actually had these kind of beliefs and he actually publicly displayed these that's that's really
interesting peaceful man i like it i like it i like the difference you'll lay down the arms you
have as being useless for saving you or humanity you will invite hair hitler and senor mussolini
to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions if these gentlemen choose to
occupy your homes you will vacate them if they do not give you free passage out you will allow
yourselves man woman and child to be slaughtered but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them
in hindsight we all now know the many added horrors that would have occurred had governments
followed gandhi's instructions and just allowed nazi germany to do what it wanted his assertion
also sounds much worse when you consider some people now say that gandhi was a racist in 2019
in the african nation of malawi people were saying just that in ghana that same year a gandhi statue
was taken down at a university you might think that's strange given what we told you about
gandhi fighting for people's rights when he was in south africa well in ghana many people right
now don't have much love for gandhi which can be seen on twitter when folks use the hashtag gandhi
must fall maybe you think it's a bit severe but it sounds righteous enough when you know some of
the racist things gandhi wrote back when he was in africa for instance he once wrote that white folks
despite their flaws should be the predominating race in south africa you see the young gandhi as
you know went over to england to get himself an education it seems it was his dealings with the
ruling british that convinced him that europeans were just more civilized than the black people
in africa we should say that he changed his entire stance in time and became an anti-racist
but it wasn't always like that he also wrote in a letter summing up the beliefs to the british
that the general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the indians are a little better if at
all than the savages or the natives of africa he absolutely thought that many africans were savages
and he used derogatory language too when referring to black people such as the term kafir in 1904 he
wrote another letter stating that he was upset about these people living amongst indians saying
about the mixing of the fears with the indians i must confess i feel most strongly he wrote that
as long as blacks were mixed with indians then diseases such as the plague would further spread
you could now understand why some people are now calling gandhi out they also accuse him of being
a hypocrite saying that he didn't believe in the rights of africans at all while also working with
the british government in segregating whites from blacks a stunning example of this is when gandhi
petitioned the colonial government in south africa to ensure the indian people didn't have to share
the same queue as black people when they went to the post office in durban he didn't think it was
fair that indians couldn't queue with the whites some people now tried to cover for gandhi saying
he was just product of his times although one would think that a person of high intelligence
would still have known right from wrong even if they didn't always fight for what was right others
now say that gandhi was a card-carrying member of the aryan brotherhood and no we don't mean that
bunch of violent angry neo-nazis whose pastime is smoking amphetamines and sharpening shivs
we mean the brotherhood that wore suits and smoked pipes and dingy boardrooms for example
when asked just how racist gandhi was one of his new critics wrote gandhi believed in the
aryan brotherhood this involved whites and indians higher up than africans on the civilized scale to
that extent he was a racist to the extent that he wrote africans out of history or was keen to join
with whites in their subjugation he was a racist as we say gandhi shifted his stance but how much
he shifted he can't i'm i i like if this is kind of like i don't even know bro like see i don't
know his history i've seen him before like always seen the poster of him and stuff like that but
you know i've never known this about him before and this is kind of really
like a harsh thing to think about like i just don't know why people tolerate racism like this
like why is it so important to segregate yourself in terms of uh ranks in class like it's really
it's kind of stupid because um if you believe in equality technically there will be no one
who is going to try to say i need to be better than you but technically if you believe in uh
your race or your people whomever looks like you should be better or considered better than others
what's going to happen is that there's going to be a a a a a anger so deep inside of the
ones who you are saying should be beneath you and eventually they're going to fight until they are
above you and that's the thing that a lot of people don't understand and um
it's just really sad i i had no idea this was the case like really say the question is when he was
telling people to lie down for the germans did any part of him still believe in superior races
you have to remember when gandhi was in south africa it wasn't as if black people hadn't
already for years been fighting for their rights you can't just say gandhi was a product of the
times because he knew very well that a race of people rightly felt they were violently oppressed
when gandhi was in england he spent most of his time hanging out with intellectuals and the odd
vegetarian and then once he was in south africa he found himself having to share the same train
carriages and join the same cues of a people he referred to as coolies he hated this that much was
evident in 1906 when during the zulu rebellion gandhi supported the british in what he termed
the revolt of the kafirs these people who he pretty much believed were barbarians he said
deserved british rule because they spent most of their days in indolence and nakedness again
people say you have to forgive him for his foibles they say he had his road to damascus moment and he
changed his views nonetheless as his critics still point out even if he did hold some racist views on
racial hierarchies why could he not ever refer to african people as africans and not coolies
or kefirs his utter lack of respect for africans was evident when he attended a dinner party held
by the british imperialist hugh windham fourth baron lincoln field gandhi was overjoyed to be
seated next to some of the empire's toffs and he quite enjoyed his aubergine cutlets and plum tart
he gave a speech about his leaving africa saying he hoped the europeans of south africa
would take a humanitarian and imperial view of the indian question but one of his biographers
pointed something else out that was the fact that gandhi never said any farewells to any africans
even though he'd been in africa that biographer said gadi didn't think africans deserved a goodbye
message we hammered this point home just a little bit only because you have to admit that it's
quite a huge deal when a human rights advocate fighting to end discrimination went along with
discrimination and human rights abuses if he was flawed in public what about his personal life well
things get even more strange now gandhi once wrote to his son that a person who marries in order to
satisfy his carnal desire is lower than even the beast he had no time for casual sex and human
relations and he himself became celibate at age 38. he'd gotten married when he was 13 but turned
away from sex later so then why did the guardian newspaper write that gandhi was prone to having uh
13 yeah i'll run that back for me nah i did not hear 13 just now so i'm just going like that slide
because i don't know how you get married at 13. you don't even know yourself weird manipulative
flirtations with young unmarried women why also in 2021 did some people in california knock down
a statue of the great man the answer is that some people think gandhi wasn't just hypocritical when
it came to racial equality but also in relation to his thoughts on sexual purity when it was decided
that the statue in california should be re-erected a group called the organization for minorities of
india was dead set against it when asked why a spokesperson for the group explained gandhi was
instrumental in influencing national treatment of women in india he said my life is my message and
the life he modeled for the nation was one of sexually exploiting his grand nieces and many
other teenage girls under the guise of performing celibacy experiments gandhi stands accused of
being sexist racist and also committing creepy acts with young women like other spiritual leaders
that have tainted the earth with their footsteps gandhi has been called a predator which we don't
have to tell you is a really bad look for someone touted as being a man of peace with a pure soul
nonetheless when people are accused of such things we should hope there's a lot of evidence or even
some evidence to back it up well he was against birth control unless it was the kind of control
that involved a man or woman taming their animal passions once he said if people have too much sex
they will become soft-brained unhinged in fact mental and moral wrecks then when he was an aging
man in the 30s he asked his young grandniece to get into bed with him he told her that it
was an experiment to see if he could control his own animal passions as bad as it looked he
didn't hide what he was doing which was to test or further test his conquest of sexual desire
it was written that he didn't care what people thought about it one author said when a close
disciple heard of gandhi's experiments with celibacy he had threatened to leave the ashram
unless gandhi rectified his predatory behavior his choices were clearly never acceptable these
experiments not only involved his grand niece but other young women and girls at the ashram he never
did have intercourse with him but let's just say he really tested himself as for how his wife felt
about all this gandhi never seemed to show her much love he once said he couldn't bear to look at
her in the face and is famously known for denying her life-saving drugs he certainly took a lot of
criticism for the two-week celibacy experiments and he still does now just as he does for many of
his more conservative beliefs regarding sex and gender to give you an idea about those beliefs
his answer to two women being attacked by men in the street was for them to shave off their hair
so they were no longer attractive to men yeah he blamed the women for a male problem even once went
as far as to say that a woman's menstruation cycle was actually a manifestation of the distortion of
a woman's soul by her sexuality for many people gandhi was a racist with a predilection for
sexually focused predatory behavior others say leave him alone the man did good on the whole
and can be said to have done something not many people can attest to and actually changing the
world today we've just played the devil's advocate and will let you decide what to make of gandhi the
darker parts of his life don't figure much when it comes to his legacy but hey mythologies are
rarely interested in nuance now you need to watch another myth-busting extravaganza the ugly truth
tank hey what can i say i'ma i'll play um advocate as well but um y'all y'all tell me what y'all
think about this man because uh i read i i heard the good and i heard the bed and the bad kinda
it's kind of too spicy for me bro but um y'all let me know what y'all think about this man because
it's really interesting what i just heard and i'm kind of shocked but um either ways guys that's
gonna be it i'm gonna get right up out of here man uh leave a like in this video and subscribe
this was a crazy video and i'm amazed but either ways guys i gotta get out of here peace