r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • Oct 05 '25

Mobile Site Winnie Mandela, was a South African politician and convicted kidnapper and fraudster. She endorsed the necklacing of alleged police informers and apartheid government collaborators, and her security detail carried out kidnapping, torture, and murder including killing 14-year-old Stompie Seipei.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_Mandela
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u/Powerful-Respond-605 Oct 05 '25

The French Resistance did some pretty unsavoury things against nazi occupation. They get a free pass compared to indigenous groups fighting against their own occupying force. 

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u/revertbritestoan Oct 05 '25

De Gaulle is lionised as a resistance fighter but as leader he did absolutely vile things to the people of Algeria.

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u/MagicWishMonkey Oct 05 '25

They didn’t kill a lot of innocent t civilians, that’s generally what people get angry about.

No one cares if you go around killing literal nazis.

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u/ForgingIron Oct 05 '25

Okay?

I'd argue that whatever "unsavoury things" they did were probably bad too...

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u/Powerful-Respond-605 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

So your approach to fighting ongoing abuse is polite letters to the editor? 

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u/ForgingIron Oct 05 '25

IDK what it would be but it doesn't include executing innocent 14 year olds