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I don't recall apologizing or defending the Africans who exploit their own people. I offered what I thought were some pretty rational reasons why they might exist.

Centuries of economic and political exploitation did not create the animosities between the Tutsies and the Hutus. (Perhaps when Africa is further along, it will be able to obtain the efficincies of scale in slaughter that white protestants did 60-some years ago.)

One could rationally argue, I suppose, that political oppression and fiscal/political explotation prevented the evolution of the sort of regional governmental infrastructures that could have acted to stop it before it got to 2,000,000 slaughtered.

Not, however, with someone who trots out psychobabble about his daddy and a pony. As a veteran of a discussion or two over the last thirty-odd years, I recognize a rugged individualist when I see one.

The key word is rational. It seems to me the height of irrationality to argue that centuries of oppression are irrelevant to contemporary situations, be it African geopolitics or American sociology.

I'd sooner argue the relationship of Jesus to God with an Orthodox Rabbi, a Jesuit, and a Shitte Iman.