RE: A question about race and double standards in Humans
September 21, 2015 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2015 at 1:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They don't seem to have had a hard time figuring it out, but whether or not they're "figuring" was accurate is an amusing question. Tutsis are tall - supposedly, and Hutus are short -as an example of what one might offer. One might imagine a firing line standing there with a yardstick...but they didn't even go that far.
Here's a better description of reality. The Hutus -did- kill Hutus, both on purpose and accidentally...they weren't actually as good at determining the difference as they believed themselves to be, no more so than any of the rest of us. I'd have gotten into the SS, and the Klan would instinctively recognize me as "one of us"..........but if they knew my family, or had me sequenced....... :throat slit:...and what they were looking for is -far- more noticeable than what the Hutus and Tutsis thought (and some still think) were reliable ways of telling a person apart at a glance, between the two groups - it just isn't very informative with regards to that difference -as- they thought it existed. Most of the "success" in locating Tutsis in Rwanda was geographic and by previous self-identification.
Here's a better description of reality. The Hutus -did- kill Hutus, both on purpose and accidentally...they weren't actually as good at determining the difference as they believed themselves to be, no more so than any of the rest of us. I'd have gotten into the SS, and the Klan would instinctively recognize me as "one of us"..........but if they knew my family, or had me sequenced....... :throat slit:...and what they were looking for is -far- more noticeable than what the Hutus and Tutsis thought (and some still think) were reliable ways of telling a person apart at a glance, between the two groups - it just isn't very informative with regards to that difference -as- they thought it existed. Most of the "success" in locating Tutsis in Rwanda was geographic and by previous self-identification.
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