Nothing Says “Racist” Like Thinking Yourself an Expert in Ethnology

A genocide that had no meaning outside of itself seems to have been benefited from the 'nuanced' support of a government that fancies itself an expert in cultures. 'Experts' so fixated on being world-beater in a field of study for its' own sake that they can't imagine people not being tribally motivated Stepford children

This month marks the 14th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, which is commonly considered to have begun on April 6, 1994. One aspect of the genocide that has received little attention in English-language media is the close relations that existed between the French military and the armed forces of the "Hutu Power" Rwandan government. In collaboration with the pro-government Interahamwe militias, Rwandan army officials are held to have been largely responsible for organizing the massacres perpetrated against the Tutsi civilian population and moderate Hutu from April to July 1994. The massacres are estimated to have claimed some 800,000 lives.

In fact that same preoccupation with the idea that placed 'professional ethnologist' Michèle Alliot-Marie to the head of the defense ministry. It's the same motive behind the inability to imagine that there are any sort of universal human values, autonomous thought, or points of moral reference. It's s sign of an even simpler sort of 'cultural ethnology': the disease of thinking you own culture is so adept at the manipulation of 'culture' that it finds it hard to account for free thinking at all.