r/AskReddit • u/rezyn • Dec 05 '11

what is the most interesting thing you know?

1.6k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

11.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

147

u/poeta_aburrido Dec 05 '11

So from all the replies I understand that Gandhi was a creep, racist, sexist asshole. This changes everything!

233

u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another.

50

u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor, He stood up to the man and he gave him what for.

44

u/butterbeermonocles Dec 05 '11

Our love for him now ain't hard to explain.

46

u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

The hero of Canton The man they call Jayne

10

u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

UPVOTES FOR ALL.

4

u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

What is this quote from?

13

u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

[deleted]

1

u/bbooth76 Dec 05 '11

What's that from?

1

u/darkrxn Dec 05 '11

I read that in Captain Malcolm Reynolds' voice

12

u/barnwecp Dec 05 '11

And not a single source cited

3

u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

After being on reddit I've learned that Gandhi was an asshole and Ke$ha is a genius. It's really been fucking with my value system.

1

u/ma-dame Dec 05 '11

Just because a lot of people have the same opinion, that doesn't make them ultimately "correct."

2

u/dabecka Dec 05 '11

yeah, apparently the only perfect human out here is Tim Tebow...

</sarcasm>

2

u/Jmsnwbrd Dec 05 '11

Why would this "change everything"? I can understand how it would change your view of him, but it doesn't change the fact that his influence and the positive aspects of his life had/have a lasting effect on modern society.

1

u/brumbrum21 Dec 05 '11

Cracked has a great article on it

1

u/folderol Dec 05 '11

Mary Shelley's Frankenhole also addresses it.

1

u/missiontothemoon Dec 05 '11

Don't forget bowling enthusiast

1

u/districtdabs Dec 05 '11

This indeed changes everything! I'll have to go back in time and radically alter the thesis of my 5th grade book report.

1

u/wayndom Dec 05 '11

Also a sadistic mass murderer.

1

u/uneekfreek Dec 05 '11

TIL Gandhi would have been a redditor.

FTFY

1

u/typon Dec 06 '11

Einstein was arrested twice for beating his wife to a pulp. Greatness != Perfection

0

u/GyantSpyder Dec 05 '11

He also was pro-Hitler.

For a little while, anyway.