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Rethink your strategy (lemmy.world)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I think it is. Public figures like these become representatives of the ideas they're known for. We care about Ghandi's nonviolence, not his racism or weird sexual nonsense. The further back in history you go, the less their personal lives matter.

If you're making a movie or writing a book about them, sure, display their failures as well. But a person doing bad things doesn't make the great things they did any less great.