Meh, I could care less if race exists. I agree there are better ways to identify and classify people but I dont have a problem with identifying Watusi and Pygmies as different races. The problem I do have is calling that racism. Cant several/many ethnicities constitute a race? I'm ethnically Irish but I still belong to a larger subset of humanity.
I thought they were getting pay back because the colonial power liked the Tutsis. That was the basis for my comparison to Cain and Abel, God preferred the herder's offering so the farmer killed him. I dont believe the Hutu suddenly took a dislike to the Tutsi because Europeans told them about racial superiority.
The Tutsi were a ruling minority before and after the arrival of Europeans and Hutu independence was the driving factor, not racism. At least, not racism introduced from Europe. The Tutsi mistreated the Hutu, that'll promote racism and it did. A small minority of the population ruled the majority. That 'division' ended up as an independence movement with both sides slaughtering each other after Belgium introduced democratic reforms favoring the Hutu.
Or castrated him like in the myths of the gods. Whatever happened, Ham denied Noah more sons limiting him to just 3, so Noah cursed Ham's 4th son Canaan.
1) I don't have a problem with identifying Watusi and Pygmies as different races
well, you should. they are not races. you can identify them as marsupials or as cybermen and it would be just as wrong.
2) can't several ethnicities constitute a race?
no, because ethnicity as a concept has a completely different identifiers. race is all about skin color and facial structure while ethnicity is about national or cultural tradition, they're completely different fields.
3) the problem I have is calling that racism
if you want to group people exclusively based around their skin color and facial structure you are without a doubt a racist and no amount of mental gymnastics will change that
4) I thought they were getting pay back because the colonial power liked the Tutsis
they were getting "pay back", as disgusting as that sounds, because the colonialists introduced a caste system where one minority party had the status of the ruler, the civilizer, and the other the status of the worker, lowly savage. if it isn't immedeatly obvious how that creates tensions then I don't know what to say.
I love how you project the identity of god onto the European colonialists though, that made me giggle
5) I dont believe the Hutu suddenly took a dislike to the Tutsi because Europeans told them about racial superiority.
it didn't happen suddenly, but rather over the period of literal decades of oppression of the majority of the population via a powerful minority. if you're being told that you are a literal lowlife and less of a human being than your neighbor (who also happens to be richer than you, and work less for it), and you don't get angry about that, then there is probably something significantly wrong with you.
6) The Tutsi were a ruling minority before and after the arrival of Europeans
This is a false claim that I would like for you to source.
7) Hutu independence was the driving factor, not racism.
Instead of just saying "no, you!!" I'll link you just about the best read on the Rwandan genocide that exists, so you can check for yourself:
Mahmood Mamdani: When Victims become Killers. Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda.
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/7027.html
Hutu independence spurned ethnic cleansings and some violence, not the genocide. Your own BBC link says as much. Genocides in general can only happen when a group thinks of another group as lesser human beings. It's a fundamental tenet. Even for the worst, most abonimable of actions, humans feel like they can justify themselves. And the Belgians gave them a great justification to slaughter each other.
8) Or castrated him
You know, I won't disagree with you there. Castration is in my mind equally as possible as rape, and just as much of a taboo to legitimize the curse. I think what we both agree on is that when he "lay his eyes on noah",
clearly something else happened that is not being told word-by-word, rather by subtext. while looking at your parents butt naked was a taboo, it wouldn't merit a generational curse I don't believe