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You seem to make assumptions that aren’t charitable and come off as overly defense. It doesn’t matter “why”, His point still stands.
by imwillofficial 5y ago
You seem to make assumptions that aren’t charitable and come off as overly defense.
It doesn’t matter “why”, His point still stands.
- kragen 5y agoWhat do you think I'm defending? Rwanda? Radio? Guatemala? Hitler? I'm not defending any of those. I'm not even defending the book, which I haven't read. I'm attacking baseless whataboutism that seems, on the face of it, and possibly incorrectly, to express an "all look same" attitude about Africa, treating its enormous diversity of peoples with histories going back millions of years as if they were a single village. (Though, as I said, there's a lot of Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa; it's not totally unconnected from Rwanda. But then both Guatemala and a substantial part of Confederacy territory used to be part of México.) I'd welcome either alternative explanations or a mea culpa. (I'm guessing verytrivial has gone to bed, though; I think they posted that in the wee hours of the morning.)
- imwillofficial 5y agoYou want a mea culpa for a reference somebody made of two “not totally unconnected things?” Are you serious?