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RonMexicosPitbull posted:the tutsis were bad during colonial times so the french helped out the other guys who turned into genocidal monsters the lesson here is just leave africa alone and let it eat itself. Even being all cultural and saying this and that culture is tough to do. Like, the totality of human history is personal vendettas, dick measuring contests, and who hosed who's girl
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The really funny thing is the Dutch made up the hutsi and tutsi bullshit because you "need" two groups to pit against each other. So they picked the blacks with longer noses as one group and had the ones with normal noses, i guess, as the other. They said the long noses came from Sheba or some poo poo and that this tribe was super special. It was all bullshit. One brother would be a tutsi and the other from the same parents a hutsi. Man, Africans are dumb.
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Jan 13, 2015 08:05
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Hotel Rwanda is the best horror movie.
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Jan 13, 2015 08:05
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Something something resource curse
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Snatch Duster posted:The really funny thing is the Dutch made up the hutsi and tutsi bullshit because you "need" two groups to pit against each other. its not that they "made it up" so much as they took what was largely an economic distinction between farmers and cattle herders and decided it should be an iron clad ethnic distinction with no room for mobility between the two. good one guys.
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paranoid randroid posted:its not that they "made it up" so much as they took an economic distinction between farmers and cattle herders and decided it was an ethnic one. good one guys. I see you have a bunch of unobtainum here. How would you like to subjegate the surrounding tribes for 3% of the market value of your goods? We do have to dig it up after all.. and by dig it up, I mean pay your people pittances to do it for us
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paranoid randroid posted:its not that they "made it up" so much as they took what was largely an economic distinction between farmers and cattle herders and decided it should be an iron clad ethnic distinction with no room for mobility between the two. good one guys. How is that not making it up?
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Jan 13, 2015 08:12
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Snatch Duster posted:How is that not making it up? well there was a distinction made i guess, but before the dutch showed up it wasnt so huge a deal.
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Jan 13, 2015 08:14
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point is, this is why you do like the english and import your colonial lackeys. that way when the locals start getting ready to hack people to death you can just rotate them out for someone else and look like the good guy in the process.
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Jan 13, 2015 08:16
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There was a scene in the movie where a white guy said a hutu and a tutsi sitting at a bar could be sisters, but maybe he just couldn't tell black people apart.
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Jan 13, 2015 10:20
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I thought the main reason French supported the genocidal tribe was because they were francophone while the other was anglophone "Can't let ze english pig-dogs take over Afrique!"
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Jan 13, 2015 10:31
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some gripping analysis itt
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Jan 13, 2015 11:21
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dallaire didn't like the Pakistani troops as they'd arrive with no rations or decent equipment and then when they got rotated out they'd take all the good stuff the Un gave them home lol
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Jan 13, 2015 11:53
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Didn't some of the UN troops that were sent to Haiti after the earthquake a few years back end up spreading some terrible disease to the locals?
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Volcott posted:Didn't some of the UN troops that were sent to Haiti after the earthquake a few years back end up spreading some terrible disease to the locals? i think the nepalese contingent had cholera
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