I'm not the sort that reads Powerline with any regularity, but this caught my attention:
It's great to see someone standing up for colonialism, especially British colonialism. I agree wholeheartedly with this observation, for example:
Had Britain had the courage to face down Gandhi and his rabble a few years longer, the tragedy that was the partititon of India might have been avoided.
I don't know what to say.
I'm hardly a reflexive defender of Gandhi, or of the pacifist approach to politics. However, to suggest that "Gandhi and his rabble" were responsible for the horrors of partition, when in fact both the policy of partition and the Muslim-Hindu tensions that created the need for partition are direct consequences of British imperial policy, really goes beyond the pale.
Hmm. Let me restate that, because Assrocket likes to go beyond the pale. . Read on
WTF? The Immoral Minority
And do absolutely nothing concerning these stories.
I don't know what to say.
I'm hardly a reflexive defender of Gandhi, or of the pacifist approach to politics. However, to suggest that "Gandhi and his rabble" were responsible for the horrors of partition, when in fact both the policy of partition and the Muslim-Hindu tensions that created the need for partition are direct consequences of British imperial policy, really goes beyond the pale.
Hmm. Let me restate that, because Assrocket likes to go beyond the pale. . Read on
