Not to certain how the examples presented are jokes or humorous. Working in healthcare all my career gave me (and most colleagues) a dark sense of humour but those things…wow
They sound horrifying to us because we haven't been primed to dehumanise the victims those jokes were targeting. That's a good thing.
But there are certainly things that many people in our culture laugh at or make jokes out of that are just as awful. It's been normalised, so we don't see it as harmful.
During the Rwandan genocide, they didn't see the 'cockroaches' as human beings. They were the enemy. Making those kinds of sick comments and laughing about it was entirely normalised.
I run into horrible jokes made at the expense of autistic people like myself, transgender and gay people run into it all the time, women in general and people of colour- it's everywhere.
It is prejudice taken to its worst possible conclusion. Those 'jokes' were the end point of it, when the violence broke out. It escalated to that point slowly over time. The original jokes were probably a whole lot tamer.
Up until a year ago I lived next door and a couple down from two houses of Rwandan folks. A couple and a young family (their children were born here) they horrors they experienced gave me nightmares. They all lost their entire family’s and the wife next door watched her parents butchered right in front of her and raped by multiple Tutsi so that she can’t bear children herself. I could never understand how they were always upbeat and happy looking whenever we met them outside. We became friends and showed them how to live in Edmonton with four seasons and eventually they took to calling us mama and papa… never felt more happy than that first time I heard my title with them
I'm glad they found peace and stability here, that's wonderful...it's truly horrifying what happened. Although I think you have it backwards; the minority Tutsi people were the targeted victims of the Rwandan genocide.
Sorry right right right I somehow confuse the Country name with the citizens names ie. Canada Canadian it happens more than once the Hutu’s are whom I meant
Are we seeing jokes about the Palestinians yet? In Israel for sure but in the west? But you're right. This is how these people rationalize their bigotry. "I was just joking." Then the next thing you hear from them is, 'I'm not prejudice. I'm not a racist." Unfortunately, this will always be with us.
Regardless of what parents desired for their children I think they confusion will still stand because it's already a very confused world and we just keep trying and hoping and keep doing but that trauma and cynicism remains there. Such a perfect work my friend
Not to certain how the examples presented are jokes or humorous. Working in healthcare all my career gave me (and most colleagues) a dark sense of humour but those things…wow
They sound horrifying to us because we haven't been primed to dehumanise the victims those jokes were targeting. That's a good thing.
But there are certainly things that many people in our culture laugh at or make jokes out of that are just as awful. It's been normalised, so we don't see it as harmful.
During the Rwandan genocide, they didn't see the 'cockroaches' as human beings. They were the enemy. Making those kinds of sick comments and laughing about it was entirely normalised.
I run into horrible jokes made at the expense of autistic people like myself, transgender and gay people run into it all the time, women in general and people of colour- it's everywhere.
It is prejudice taken to its worst possible conclusion. Those 'jokes' were the end point of it, when the violence broke out. It escalated to that point slowly over time. The original jokes were probably a whole lot tamer.
Up until a year ago I lived next door and a couple down from two houses of Rwandan folks. A couple and a young family (their children were born here) they horrors they experienced gave me nightmares. They all lost their entire family’s and the wife next door watched her parents butchered right in front of her and raped by multiple Tutsi so that she can’t bear children herself. I could never understand how they were always upbeat and happy looking whenever we met them outside. We became friends and showed them how to live in Edmonton with four seasons and eventually they took to calling us mama and papa… never felt more happy than that first time I heard my title with them
I'm glad they found peace and stability here, that's wonderful...it's truly horrifying what happened. Although I think you have it backwards; the minority Tutsi people were the targeted victims of the Rwandan genocide.
Sorry right right right I somehow confuse the Country name with the citizens names ie. Canada Canadian it happens more than once the Hutu’s are whom I meant
Are we seeing jokes about the Palestinians yet? In Israel for sure but in the west? But you're right. This is how these people rationalize their bigotry. "I was just joking." Then the next thing you hear from them is, 'I'm not prejudice. I'm not a racist." Unfortunately, this will always be with us.
Regardless of what parents desired for their children I think they confusion will still stand because it's already a very confused world and we just keep trying and hoping and keep doing but that trauma and cynicism remains there. Such a perfect work my friend