snit snat wrote:
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> no, i'm argung that racism alone doesn't explain the bush administration's
> actions. neither does conspiracy theory, but chalking it all up to racism
> is just idiotic.
>
I'm not sure what "explain" means in this context, but if it means _cause_, racism is in now way a _cause_ of the policy, but it is a major factor in gaining popoular acceptance of the policy. Either Bush or Kerry would have been equally willing to slaughter a few million for the cause, but either would have had a much harder time generating popular acceptance had the victims been white.
At the time the U.S. was destroying the Congo, the most effective bit of propaganda was a heart-wrenching photograph of a white man in anguish over the body of his German shepherd that had been cruelly shot by one of those ______ whatever. It proved that the Congolese and their leader, Lumumba, were just a bunch of savages.
Carrol