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"Not spotless" is another way of saying that her writings were rife with anti-semitism and anti-indigenous sentiments that pretty much everyone today should fin
by vector_spaces 5y ago
"Not spotless" is another way of saying that her writings were rife with anti-semitism and anti-indigenous sentiments that pretty much everyone today should find reprehensible. The fact that these sentiments are fundamentally baked into her cosmology via her root races ideology blights her efforts with regard to mysticism.
I'll go farther and say that I think celebrating her without detailed qualification and acknowledgement of these issues (saying she's "not spotless"/"wasn't perfect", etc. obviously doesn't count), along with wantonly dismissing people who take issue with this content, is both extremely irresponsible and extremely unkind, not to mention deeply immature.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoShe was an awesome lady. She was antiracist. She made concrete and lasting contributions to the Indian independence movement. For this, she was deliberately framed for fraud by the British government. Obviously, her case requires respect and nuance. She is one of history’s few successful female philosophers. She had lots of enemies then and now. Dig up what you can and we can talk about it. But don’t think it is “mature” and “responsible” to try to cancel her and her ideas, 150 years later.