Thread by @alexxstation

Caelem and anyone else who says this shit has the reading comprehension of a Chihuahua if this is the point being taken from this article.

Dumbest fucking people alive coming out of the woodwork to smear Yves.

https://twitter.com/CaelemSG/status/1943848662767218886

Engler doesn’t deny a genocide happened. He explicitly acknowledges that mass killings targeted the Tutsi. What he challenges is the inflated reporting on the death toll and the simplistic hero/villain framing that serve Western and Kagame-aligned interests, which is accurate...

There’s a difference between denial and revision. Denial says “this didn’t happen.” Revision asks: "how exactly did this happen?" And most importantly "who benefited from this narrative?" Historians ask those questions all the time. That’s not denial, it’s basic historiography...

In this article Engler is citing official census data, survivor group estimates, and academic studies (e.g. GenoDynamics). He doesn’t “invent” numbers out of thin air, he interrogates the ones used by states, NGOs, and media to build politically useful myths that benefit Canada..

The myth Engler is targeting is that Rwanda was a clear-cut case of evil Hutu genocidaires vs helpless Tutsi victims, saved only by a noble Canadian general and U.N. peace keeping forces. A narrative long used to rehabilitate Western inaction along with Kagame’s brutality...

Engler’s target is the moral narrative of Canadian liberal nationalism, and that’s exactly why nationalist liberals posing as socialists get so bent out of shape when confronted with someone analyzing a great atrocity for what it is rather than the myths we are sold about it...

Challenging the Romeo Dallaire white savior myth unsettles your average 🌹🟠 liberal nationalist social democrat, because it pokes holes in the fantasy of Canada as a moral force in the world. That’s why they react to it with such blind, emotional hostility...

Criticizing Kagame, questioning the “hero general” myth, and noting that Hutus also died in massive numbers during the chaos doesn’t mean you’re excusing or denying a genocide. It means you’re refusing to let one side monopolize the narrative, which makes soc dems uncomfortable..

Genocide denial is real. But weaponizing that label against critics of Kagame, or the West’s role in Rwanda, is a form of ideological policing that Yves Engler has been the target of for years and years. In attempts to delegitimize inquiry and suppresses uncomfortable truths...

The real danger isn’t revisionist history, it’s so-called leftists who treat official narratives as sacred. Because that story isn’t just about 1994. It’s how empire justifies itself: with heroes, villains, and the silence of those who should know better.

Plain and simple.