Can what happened in ruanda happen in the US?
The Slacktivist is asking this question, noting the simularity what
happened in Ruanda then and is happening in the US now:
Gourevitch explores the rise of the Hutu Power ideology as it gathered force in community meetings throughout Rwanda. He traces how the Tutsi “elites” and Hutu moderates were gradually demonized, leading ultimately to the embrace of the final solution that Pastor Ntakirumana described to the condemned in the mission hospital.
Reading this part of the story you reflexively, defensively reassure yourself with all the reasons you can think of that it can’t happen here. You do this all the more urgently the more you begin to suspect that maybe it could. You realize that the madness that swept Rwanda did not come about suddenly, but as the result of a thousand small steps in that direction. And some of those small steps seem familiar.