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The video critiques Jeffrey Tigay's biblical commentary, which attempts to establish the historicity of biblical giants by drawing a comparison to the Tutsi people of central Africa, who are referenced as "Watusi." The author argues that Tigay unwittingly perpetuates a dangerous colonial fantasy of the Tutsi being a race of giants, a stereotype that had racist origins in 19th-century French Aryanism and was later used to justify the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Furthermore, the critique dismantles other evidence Tigay offers for biblical giants, such as an exaggerated satirical Egyptian letter and misidentified ancient skeletons, asserting that the actual average height of the Tutsi is only slightly taller than the Hutu due to socioeconomic factors, not a distinct racial classification. Ultimately, the text contends that Tigay's comparison uncritically retains a dubious racial classification that should have been rejected by modern scholarship.

"The Perpetuation of Racial Assumptions in Biblical Studies"
by Deane Galbraith
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