[lbo-talk] Freedom" of fascist speech is an absurdity

[Jim Devine]

JKS:>In Rwanda, the genocide was the product of years of
careful preparation, including the prior purchase of
hundreds of thousands of machetes and other deliberate
plans by a clique in the government bent of mass
murder which had to assassinate the President to carry
through their scene, many previous massacres on a
lower level, ethnic oppressions, and Malthusian
conditions in circumstances of severe environmental
degradation. The final call to "exterminate the
cockroaches" would have fallen on deaf ears without
some such background. ...<

also, the colonists had created the artificial Hutu/Tutsi distinction,
giving the latter more privileges (the old divide and rule).  And it's
not as much a matter of "Malthusian conditions" as much as spiraling
inequality between the two groups. That encouraged environmental
degregation to get worse, as I understand it, which in turn made
antagonism toward the Tutsis grow.

(If someone is an expert on Rwandan history, I am ready to be corrected.)
--
Jim Devine
Down with Big Brother Bush!