From late October 1993, the RTLM repeatedly broadcast themes developed by the extremist written press, underlining the inherent differences between Hutu and Tutsi, the foreign origin of Tutsi, the disproportionate share of Tutsi wealth and power, and the horrors of past Tutsi rule. The RTLM also repeatedly stressed the need to be alert to Tutsi plots and possible attacks. It warned Hutu to prepare to "defend" themselves against the Tutsi.
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The genocide that occurred in Rwanda had the countries’ media as a large factor. Radio Rwanda was responsible for the culture of hatred that spurred madmen to massacre. America has an analog, and although it has not been complicit in a genocide yet, it is complicit in producing a spirit of hate that has led to the political attack of a sitting United States Congressperson, and the murder of at least 6 people including a federal judge.
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The RTLM had used terms such as inyenzi (cockroach in Kinyarwandan) and Tutsi interchangeably with others referring to the RPF combatants. It warned that RPF combatants dressed in civilian clothes were mingling among the displaced people fleeing combat zones. These broadcasts gave the impression that all Tutsi were supporters of the RPF force fighting against the elected government.[16] Women were targets of the anti-Tutsi propaganda prior the 1994 genocide; for example, the "Ten Hutu Commandments" (1990) included four commandments that portrayed Tutsi women as tools of the Tutsi people, and as sexual weapons to weaken and ultimately destroy the Hutu men.[17] Gender-based propaganda also included cartoons printed in newspapers depicting Tutsi women as sex objects. Examples of gender-based hate propaganda used to incite war rape included statements by perpetrators, such as, "You Tutsi women think that you are too good for us", and "Let us see what a Tutsi woman tastes like
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In the coming days I can anticipate our MSM attempting to install balance. I can see them coming to the defense of their corporate brethren in Fox. It is going to happen. Both sides do this, this is just a lone wolf, we have no blood on our hands
Yes you most certainly do.
I am writing to ask your company to take a simple step that may well save lives in the future. And it is not unimportant that taking this action will remove your company and its products from any connection to what could very likely be an unpleasant tragedy, should things remain as they are today. On behalf of my organization, and many others like it, I ask that you cease advertising on the Fox News Channel.
This is neither a hollow request, nor one rhetorically made. There is an urgency to it born of our own direct experience as the target of a would-be assassin inspired by Fox's Glenn Beck Show…snip
I respectfully request that you bring this matter of your company's sponsorship of hate speech leading to violence to the attention of your fellow directors as soon as possible. I believe no responsible company should advertise on Fox News due to its recent and on-going deplorable conduct.
While we may agree to disagree about the role our citizens and our government should play in promoting social justice and the common good, there should be no disagreement about what constitutes integrity and professionalism and responsibility in discourse – even when allowing for and encouraging contending diverse opinions intelligently argued. This is not a partisan issue. It's an American issue. No one, left, right or center, wants to see another Oklahoma City.
The next "assassin" may succeed, and if so, there will be blood on many hands. The choice is yours. Please join my call to do the right thing in this regard and put Fox News at arm's length from your company by halting your advertising with them.
Sincerely,
Drummond Pike
CEO and Founder, Tides
Drummond Pike's plea goes unanswered unfortunately.
Fox is America’s Radio Rwanda, and it is time for us to pull the plug on them. Beck appears to be down to only advertising for the gold that the mass murdering terrorist Jared Lee Loughner appeared to be so fixated by. Any organization or product that would advertise on Fox now deserves to have their product linked to this incident.
Boycott Fox. Boycott any organization that wants to do business with the hate merchant organization. How long does an organization have to piss in your face before you know it isn’t rain water?