“On genocide”,
I find it weird that we only learn about genocides as they relate to Western powers. The Shoah was perpetrated by a Western power. The Rwandan genocide is taught because Western powers failed to act. We don’t learn about Herero and Nama, or Jasenovac, or the Rohingyas (current), or the Uyghurs, or the Romi (part of the Shoah and others) because either those populations are not present to advocate for their representation in curricula here (as Jewish Shoah survivors/families were), the connection to Western powers and lives is not obvious, or because their story is forgotten/overpowered by another/misrepresented. I also find it weird that we teach genocide as something past, historical, old, rather than something happening now and that will continue to happen as long as nation-states and their inhabitants place each other in implicit or explicit hierarchies, and base their priorities on those hierarchies, which will continue as long as humanity continues, since those hierarchies and distinctions are little more than cognitive shortcuts the brain uses as it is drawn to organisation of the self and what it recognises as external to itself; the hierarchies are created to attempt to organise what does and what does not deserve its attention.