Quote of the Day
There’s only one law. Don’t be a Tutsi, when the Hutus show up.
MTHead
March 10, 2024
Comment to Too Many Lies to Bother Refuting Them
There is a lot packed into that statement.
Read up on the Rwanda genocide for more details. Or Lethal Laws for things common to all genocides and how to prevent them.
This is short version of the story applicable to this quote:
- The Tutsi were a minority, about 15% of the population. The Hutus were about 85% of the population.
- The Tutsi were the favored race by the German colonizers.
- The Hutu developed a hatred for the Tutsi who controlled the government for decades.
- Gun control prevented the Tutsi from having effective tools of self defense.
- A relatively small set of young male, radical, Hutu murdered up to as many as 1,000,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu using machetes as their primary weapon.
What I think are the important points to remember about all genocides are:
- A small part of the population, something like 1% to 3% of the population do the actual killing.
- The victims almost always vastly outnumber the murderers.
- All genocides since the start of the 20th century were enabled by gun control.
Aaron Zelman, author of Lethal Laws makes this claim (IIRC):
All genocides require three things:
- Government.
- Hate.
- Gun control.
Government and hate will always exist. The elimination of gun control is the only way to prevent genocide.
With that in mind, reread the words of MTHead’s and prepare appropriately.
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