Probably not a popular opinion, but I’m of the mind that a good chunk of the less civilized nations are pretty much barbarians, and that barbarism is pretty much state sponsored. It’s really really fucked up.
The shit that I’ve heard from friends that have come back from Iraq and very places various places from Africa and the middle east is nothing short if horrifying. There’s no good answer for it either. Unless you want to nuke everybody.
And? Western Civilization has been raping Congo for hundreds of years and is continuing up to this day. Look up King Leopold of Belgium. So step off your pink high horse.
Not only that Jeffrey Dahmer and a whole cartoon cast full of other characters were way worse than these fucks and they were from “modern day western civilization.” Oh my bad, it doesn’t count because they were not immigrants. Fuck outta here.
I know about Belgium. Just like I know about American slavery and the Salem witch hunts. I’ll let you come up with the common thread.
Also, the second our “cartoon cast” is supported in spirit by large members of the community and you see small towns joining in on the violence, then we can say that it is not just a “Third World” problem.
At one point 42 percent of America supported the war in Iraq which eventually claimed a high estimate of 114,239civilian deaths. Many of the Iraq war supporters were on the religious right.
So… you equate a war… a war in which other countries were involved…with vigilante violence…often carried out by family members and supported by the entire community…that usually target, women, children and religious minorities?
My thing is tribalism has been a part of Africa a long time, well before any arbitrary state lines were drawn. My solution that isn’t nuking everybody, is for each African state to have tribal governments for each tribe, where the tribes are then left alone to make their own rules for themselves/etc. Then have the (extremely minimal) state government/judicial system be there for any intertribe transgressions and so on, while having representatives from each tribe active in it. Other than that no state at all and each tribe forming their own autonomous communities could be an alternative. Now you may still have animal sacrifices/scarification/whatever, but if that’s what the communities/tribal govts collectively agree upon for themselves so be it.
In America you would never hear of somebody getting beaten to death with chisels and hammers over bullshit. BRB this kid just whistled at a white woman