Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Coleman Hughes | Black Lives Matter" video.

Hutu and Tutsi engaged in a race based war and genocide founded on perceived physical differences. Yes, World History tells us it's endemic to human behavior.
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@Steve83B Exactly, I read that "ear shape" was one of the "tells" used before they chopped them off. Often in extremely homogeneous groups, the people in them, find other ways to differentiate themselves, like they way they part their hair, or pattern of cloth they dress in. It's endemic to human behavior. We are just afraid to ask the question, WHY, why do we ALL do it?
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A gun was not necessary, the economic framework was changing in the US, as it did in GB, and slavery would have ended the same way, save the extremist like John Brown and others who forced the issue, and used the gun. If not for the minority of extremists, the civil war would not have happened. The burgeoning industrial age did not need slave labor, it needed trained labor, and consumers to purchase its products. That's why we need to now moderate the extremists who are again pushing for violence.
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@Steve83B Had not heard of Hutu 10 commandment, thanks. I think ours is the baseline from where a real discussion on differentiation should begin. We must also recognize and call out those who weaponize and monetize the black/white issue for status and power. It's funny listening to them rail against hierarchy when all the while seeking top ranking in one themselves. That's why I call them predators.
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Fela George Sorry, you need to go back further than it being economic or political, especially when during the genocides decisions were made to kill based on physical characteristics. There are "political" reason to make the claim you do, but the ethnic/blood origin of both the Rwandan and Burundian genocides have a race component. It's easy to do even a superficial online search to know that.
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One in a Million chance: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force
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@jamesw17 Both the US and GB ended the Slave Trade at the same time, legally, in 1807/8. GB slaves were held outside contiguous national borders, primarily in the Caribbean. US slave holders and slaves were within the contiguous national borders, so it's apples and oranges. If the slave holders and slaves were in England, and slaves out numbered the citizens by 3 to 1, I would assume a different outcome for GB, wouldn't you?
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@jamesw17 If 4 million slaves had been in the British Isles, you think there would have been a universal agreement to free those 4 million and make them citizens of England, Scotland, and Ireland? I don't think so. LOL, and I can imagine those 4 million hooking up with the "Young Irelanders" in 1848, how the world would have been different. What GB did was expedient, along with a dash of virtue and morality. You are of course leaving this out: https://caricomreparations.org/two-hundred-years-since-the-heroic-barbados-slave-rebellion/ Also, Mexico abolished slavery in its constitution of 1824, almost a decade before GB. So slavery was abolished in North America before GB did it, sorry.
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@jamesw17 GB/US apples and oranges, false equivalence when it comes to ending slavery. The "point of a gun" was forced on the North by extremists. We need to remember that, and guard against those elements now. That was my point. Coleman Hughes is a good voice in that regard. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, lot's of bad history behind that.
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@jamesw17 Mexico did it at it's birth in 1824. That doesn't matter to you?
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@jamesw17 Great question! I've been thinking about writing a counter-factual novel like Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America" about that very subject. If John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglas were of different mind, and instead of Lincoln, a Quaker had been elected president, what would America have been like. But I realized the novel would have been really, really boring. Perhaps if John Brown had spent time with the shamans of the American Southwest, partook in the Peyote rituals, and then brought a transcendent, mystic message to the slave states instead of a Jeremiah, hum.... that might work.....
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@jamesw17 I didn't call you any names, but you are incorrect, I am the descendant of Litvak Jews who came to the US in the late 19th Century escaping the slavery of Russian conscription. The Civil War was a lost cause before it began, and was only a side-show. Just look at the advancements made by the North during the Civil War. If not for the extremists, on both sides, a more peaceful resolution would have been possible. My point is that the extremism of that period is a cautionary tale for us now. There's a lot of history still to know, but even more to unknow.
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BLM are predatory Marxists using fear and anxiety as a tactic to cut prey from the herd so the can feed and gain power.
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‘Steering’ is Illegal under the Fair Housing Laws (1968) The Federal Fair Housing Act makes it illegal for an agent “…to make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.” (See 42 U.S.C. § 3604(c))
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@farapipsqueek636 I'm a Litvak Jew, and your description of historic antisemitism in Germany and Eastern Europe is not accurate. You have political reasons to see the conflict between Hutu and Tutsis as being ONLY the result of "colonialism", and don't want to see the history of ethnic and tribal warfare which existed in the Great Lakes region prior to colonization. During the genocide, factions made decisions on who to kill based on physical characteristics. You know that. Same was true in Nazi Germany, and even in the U.S. during the 1st part of the 20th century. "Ethnic Cleansing" was very popular with academics in the U.S., and even Nazi's referred to that scholarship in their propaganda. Your's is a reductionist view, one that serves politics, but not humanity.
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@farapipsqueek636 The issues related to Hutu and Tusti predate colonialism and "class struggle", as does your view of Jewish history in Europe. I take a longer view of history and the behavior of humans, as well as all biological life. The Hutu and Tusti was but one example of perceived differences leading to oppression and genocide, another would be the Han Chinese treatment of ethnic groups like the Uyghurs and Yao people, and recent violence against Africans after an outbreak of African swine virus that decimated the Chinese pork industry. If you investigate the history of antisemitism in the U.S., you will see it also breaks down into perceived differences between Spanish Jews of the Iberian diaspora who arrived in North America in the middle of the 17th century, the later German Jewish migration in the mid-19th century, and then the Eastern European Jew flavor of the later part of the 19th and early 20th Century. Read Carey McWilliams work on this: A Mask for Privilege, Anti-Semitism in America, written in 1948. I like that it was written prior to 1970, when the failed Marxists took the issue over and related everything to class struggle and the social injustice of capitalism. I just don't see this issue in that narrow framework, partly because that framework has failed to be effective, doesn't fully explain the issue, and I believe, needs to be to put it aside. If we are forced to reduce our perspective to a Marxist system of reality, human progress will fail.
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@LS-td3no Yes, I have seen it, and the broader story, too, about the birth of the Israeli Air Force and the irony that many flew Czechoslovak-built German Messerschmitt in 1948. It was available on Amazon Prime. BLM supports DD, BDS, and considers Israel and illegal state. BLM was founded by Marxists who are atheists. One of the founders was born of a Black father and Jewish mother, brought up as a Zionist, but in college renounced all religion and became a devout Marxist intent on ending Capitalism around the world. I have neighbors who are Christian BLM supporters unaware of the atheism of this movement, not reported on MSM. I am a non religious Jew, and do not support all the policies of Israel. Here's a speech by former Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver that tells the "past is prologue" story of BLM: https://youtu.be/-MPxlemtm90
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morenazo952 The animosity between the Hutu and Tutsi predates European influence and began in the 15th Century. The Catholic missionaries did not arrive in Rwanda until the 1880's. Revisionist historians, many with Marxist ideology, want to blame it all on Imperalism. Use your common sense about all people. Racism existed in Africa and the Western Hemisphere before European influence. The Tutsi considered themselves superior to the Hutu, and after the end of colonialism, looked to physical differences to determine race. Being short and having small ears could get you killed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Rwanda
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morenazo952 "When structural-Marxist models of history are used to explain inequality and hierarchy, they can gain currency outside the narrow confines of the academy. If, for example, the "origins" of the ethnic/economic cleavages between the contemporary Tuutsi and Hutu of Rwanda and Burundi are explained as a consequence of the political economy of the deep past, the analysis may thus unwittingly reinforce the current "unity" of ethnic and economic status by historicizing it. Unfortunately, this approach undervalues the role of social agents to historical development. "https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505631?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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morenazo952 Didn't say that, but if we all look at it just through the prism of Structural Marxism, Critical Theory, and the other sub-theories born in the the last 50 years within the academy, we will fail to progress and be better humans. The theory you appear to hold will only create misery and death, as it has everywhere on the planet since before recorded time. BTW, did colonialism create the "caste" system in India or Japan?
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Tell that to the 1,000 years of despots in Japan who ruled over one of the most "homogeneous" ethnic groups in history, and then had to be FORCED into a liberal democracy by gun point.
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@aquilatempestate9527 Your reply seems not to be toward my post?
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@optimatesupport3453 LOL, yes... my brain is a bag of chemicals partly driven by the neurohypophysial hormone oxytocin, thus, relieving me of Agency and individual responsibility. That's one way to go.
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