• SpookyLights@lemmy.ca
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    29 days ago

    Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for opposing South Africa’s apartheid regime, which enforced racial segregation and discrimination.

    Op asked “if someone who was a convicted felon/rapist could they be awarded the nobel peace prize?.”

    These two are things are not the same, and just to make sure we’re both on the same page, they’re not the same because one of them went to prison as a form of protest against an unjust system. The other raped some people.

    • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      29 days ago

      Want to go take a deep breath, realign your chakras and reread OPs comment?

      ‘Cause I literally replied with a convicted felon (Nelson Mandela) that was awarded the Nobel peace prize

      Would it be easier if I provided another example? Liu Xiaobo was in a jail cell when he was awarded the Nobel peace prize