For some members of Generation Z, Mohandas Gandhi is just another bigot who should be canceled.
As a Change.org petition demanding the removal of Gandhi’s statue from California State University-Fresno approaches 5,000 signatures on Wednesday night, the president of the public university has refused to give in.
Joseph Castro reminded students last week that it was their own initiative that created the Fresno State Peace Garden 30 years ago. It now features Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., labor activist Cesar Chavez and early feminist Jane Addams, “who dedicated their lives in the pursuit of equality, social change and justice through peaceful methods,” he wrote:
“All four individuals recognized in the Fresno State Peace Garden … embodied the spirit of peaceful and constructive activism. This transcendent quality is what the garden memorializes. It does not necessarily honor every facet of their lives.”
The petition, created by a local high school student named Akhnoor Sidhu, said the statue’s continuing presence on campus “make[s] us appear to hold double-standards.” (It’s replete with references to “we” and “our” despite Sidhu being a rising senior at San Joaquin Memorial High School, not even an incoming Fresno State student.)
The petition says Gandhi supported the caste system, campaigned for the segregation of Indians from blacks and oppose the Zulu civil rights movement in South Africa. He was “deeply prejudiced against all minorities,” took advantage of young girls and used “nonviolence merely as a tool of political expediency”
It’s unclear how much of the petition support comes from the Fresno State community. The Fresno Bee reports that the Jakara Movement, “a Sikh youth organization that supports social justice causes,” is organizing in support of the petition. Its Fresno State chapter is planning its own letter against the statue and hopes to gain the backing of professors against President Castro.
Full story at The College Fix.
Funny! As President Trump said when you start taking down statues where does it end. Maybe we should take down the statues of these men, and start putting up statues of their wives as many of the wives were a whole lot purer than the men were, and put up with more too.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Weeks ago, in London, some were calling for the removal of a statue of the “racist” Ghandi. Those who want to erase history will not limit their ire to Christians or Americans. All are required to bow before the totalitarian oligarchy of BLM, CNN, UN, AOC and George Soros. No diversity or tolerance is permitted. And, we, as a Church, need to repent of bowing before a pachamama idol. Today is the feast of St. Hyacinth, an early second century martyr. “When he was denounced as a Christian, Hyacinth proclaimed his faith. As a result, he was imprisoned and underwent numerous scourgings and tortures. He was deliberately served only meat which had been blessed for sacrifice to the gods, the eating of which was banned by both Judaism and Christianity. Thus, he starved to death in 108 AD, dying at the age of twelve. Just before his death, legend says, his jailers saw him being comforted by angels. Hyacinth died in the city of Rome.” Today, many would urge this boy to just eat some idol meat. He refused to bow to anything even associated with idols and so should we. Worship God alone and reverence His Mother and the Saints. St. Hyacinth, pray for us!
Now Hyacinth was what I call a real saint, no matter his skin color. May he pray for us.
If they are going to remove statues of anyone who ever sinned, only the Jesus and Mary statues will remain. If the Me Too movement wasn’t so leftist, they would be going after the MLK statues and Blvd. names, but that will never happen. I think that MLK was a great man, but the evidence of things he did is apparent for those who want to do just a little research. We are all fallen, so if we start removing statues, where will it stop. Just a few years ago, it was the left talking about tolerance, now they have none. Just a few years ago the left was fighting against book censorship and now they are censoring everything, including cartoons. The level of hypocrisy in the left is unbelievable!
Interesting stories coming from Venezuela about how the tearing down of statues was a strategy that Marxist’s used there, before that country fell to Communism.
Where does this stop ? look at the damage done to the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark , book burnings are next , JD is correct marxists, fascists , and this current terroristic horde and their fellow travelers use this to erase and denigrate our American culture and way of life, if you don’t know or respect your history or culture , you wont fight for it .
Only this morning did I learn that the Little Mermaid was a racist.
(Actually, I’m not sure I even believe in mermaids or mermen.)
Sure enough. Her statue has got to go too!
Don’t we see the danger that by making virtually everything “racist,” we diminish the horror of real racial injustice?
Once it starts, are they indicating what race the little mermaid ” represents”? She ‘s dark bronze. ..
At this point in time, for the new iconoclasts race is irrelevant. All that matters is erasing history, even mythical and literary histories. The only time that matters is now and the only principle that matters is power. Rage over reason. Indignation over insight. Destruction over deliberation. Tirades over thought. Sound bites over sound minds.
Maybe she is not “trans” enough. Maybe they tore her down because she is not a merman pretending to be a merwoman. Who knows the thinking of these people.
Tragically, today’s news proves my point. According to the Rochester (New York) Democrat and Chronicle, a statue of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass was torn down this past weekend. Racial equality and justice are not really important issues to totalitarian leftist thugs. Our culture’s old adage about not speaking ill of the dead has been turned upside down. Now, we speak only ill of the dead. What was Mr. Douglass’s crime? Although President (and General) Grant was a flawed human person, like each of us, he was supported and eulogized by Mr. Douglass: In the campaign of 1872, abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass actually gave stump speeches for incumbent President Ulysses Grant. Frederick Douglass eulogized Grant as “a man too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point. In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior.”