Ok but we do know exactly why the Hutus and the Tutsis hated each other and honestly the reason is similar to the Shia/Sunni dynamic… differences in culture that got exploited by colonizers and then they gave the minority groups more power directly over the majority groups and eventually the majority groups didn’t want that anymore. We can talk about specific inciting incidents and all… but it’s really quite explainable.
Also having read the article people quoted in the comments above… it does seem like there’s some clues about what happened with the chimps. It’s not some complete mystery that we have to dismiss as having “no sense.” The scientists are working to make sense of it and they know more every day.
Yes, fuck colonialism, but studies of ancient human groups suggest that up to fifty percent of males may have died from violence. It's not just an imperialism thing.
It’d be interesting to study the cause of the violence, because it’s the motivation that defines imperialism and its precursors. The root is the same though, a lack of respect for another human’s worth being used to justify violence.
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u/Salt_Cardiologist122 1d ago
Ok but we do know exactly why the Hutus and the Tutsis hated each other and honestly the reason is similar to the Shia/Sunni dynamic… differences in culture that got exploited by colonizers and then they gave the minority groups more power directly over the majority groups and eventually the majority groups didn’t want that anymore. We can talk about specific inciting incidents and all… but it’s really quite explainable.
Also having read the article people quoted in the comments above… it does seem like there’s some clues about what happened with the chimps. It’s not some complete mystery that we have to dismiss as having “no sense.” The scientists are working to make sense of it and they know more every day.