[lbo-talk] Racist Iraq War (was outlier..)

[Gary?]

From: "Charles Brown">
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>
> Tahir: Not true; there have been genocides in Africa that have only
> been very obliquely related to racism. The biggest of these in recent
> years was in Rwanda. The slaughter there occurred largely as a result of
> hatreds between two African ethnic groups.
>
> ^^^^^
> CB:
> Actually, I was thinking of genocide as defined as racist, and agreeing
with
> Grant Lee that they also involve class struggles. Since the UN definition
of
> genocide does include killing members of an ethnic group as members of an
> ethnic group ( not only race), I agree with you. However, the point of
what
> I was saying was not to establish that all genocides are racist ( which I
> was sort of thinking of as tautological), but to agree with Grant Lee that
> they are also class struggles.
>
> In other words, you are refuting a point that I wasn't trying to make.
>
>
you guys make me fucking sick, the problems in Rwanda were created by
Belgian colonialism and allowed to fester and explode by Western disdain.
When calls were made to the UN for help the US and Britain turned their
backs- obliquely racist-lack of intervention is as racist and as murderous
as the deed itself
you lot are like a gaggle of knitters at the guillotine.

Gary?
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