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OT Thread XIII: If Love Is In The Air.... I'll Stop Breathing Edition

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Callys Chicken Parm said:
Oh I wrote all about that with the Holocaust. Jews (and other minorities) were blamed by Hitler for all the economic and social instability after World War I.

Rwanda is different though. Not much of a scapegoat thing, more related to the Congress of Vienna ****ing **** up by disregarding tribal boundaries. It's two groups that hate each other fighting for political power.

There really are no similarities other than people dying.
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you can kinda argue the lack of international response. yes, i know the allies declared war, but that was more of an action for invading poland. the true atrocities of the holocaust surfaced after the liberation of the camps.
 
Callys Chicken Parm said:
Oh I wrote all about that with the Holocaust. Jews (and other minorities) were blamed by Hitler for all the economic and social instability after World War I.

Rwanda is different though. Not much of a scapegoat thing, more related to the Congress of Vienna ****ing **** up by disregarding tribal boundaries. It's two groups that hate each other fighting for political power.

There really are no similarities other than people dying.
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Gotta look past the surface...

Similar economic and social factors allowed the groups that carried out the two genocides to come to power. Each involved one ethnic group persecuting another, and in some cases blaming them for their lot in life.

Not to mention that on a psychological level the similarities are boundless... What types of conditions led to both? What, psychologically, allowed people who in other situations might not be terrible people to become monsters and carry out horrific deeds? On the flip side, why did so many people in both situations stand by and just watch it happen? Both involved a similar us vs. them mentality (human nature in virtually every aspect of life is to find an "in group" -- a group you fit in -- and then find reasons to see fault in everyone who is not a part of that "in group").
 
nyrpassion said:
you can kinda argue the lack of international response. yes, i know the allies declared war, but that was more of an action for invading poland. the true atrocities of the holocaust surfaced after the liberation of the camps.
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Wrote about that too. Russia, US, and Britain only liberated the camps at the end of the war. Also wrote how no one gave a **** about Rwanda as all the UN troops were taken out of there.

Also pinpointed that one main reason for why the US even went to war, was for economic reasons. Britain and France owed them $2.3 Billion from World War I and Britain owed them even more from the Lend-Lease Act. US couldn't afford to have Britain and France go under.
 
Callys Chicken Parm said:
Wrote about that too. Russia, US, and Britain only liberated the camps at the end of the war. Also wrote how no one gave a **** about Rwanda as all the UN troops were taken out of there.

Also pinpointed that one main reason for why the US even went to war, was for economic reasons. Britain and France owed them $2.3 Billion from World War I and Britain owed them even more from the Lend-Lease Act. US couldn't afford to have Britain and France go under.
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Just wondering, what class is this?
 
nyrpassion said:
Just wondering, what class is this?
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My senior seminar. It's a current events class, a mixture of social studies and english. (two teachers, one soc and one english)

The class is legit Pejorative Slured. We do nothing and watch movies on Thursdays and Fridays. The most homework we get is a 1 page double-spaced reaction paper to the movie we watched.

So because of what's happening in Mali, our soc teacher thought it was a good idea to show us the movie Hotel Rwanda (saw that movie three times, wanted to kill myself in class). FYI, Rwanda and Mali are totally different situations IMO.

So we had to write an essay today comparing Rwanda to the Holocaust. We didn't even talk about Mali. Talk about a current events class :laugh:
 
Damn, my classes are so... Bland

There was a conference yesterday taking about all my choices next year, but I didn't go :laugh:
 
Callys Chicken Parm said:
My senior seminar. It's a current events class, a mixture of social studies and english. (two teachers, one soc and one english)

The class is legit Pejorative Slured. We do nothing and watch movies on Thursdays and Fridays. The most homework we get is a 1 page double-spaced reaction paper to the movie we watched.

So because of what's happening in Mali, our soc teacher thought it was a good idea to show us the movie Hotel Rwanda (saw that movie three times, wanted to kill myself in class). FYI, Rwanda and Mali are totally different situations IMO.

So we had to write an essay today comparing Rwanda to the Holocaust. We didn't even talk about Mali. Talk about a current events class :laugh:
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haha, gotcha. and yeah basically. With Mali you have Islamist groups wanting to break away and form its own country (I may be wrong, please correct me if so). While in Rwanda, it was basically forced upon them.
 
She was stoked about the flowers. A job well done, Bob Richards. :)

SFW can eat his crow.
 
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