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I have bad feeling Turkey's president might go that route and bring it up as a retaliation.

hh3k0 6y ago
Two times genocide awareness for the price of one, so to speak? I'll take it. Erdogan wouldn't have noble motives if he'd bring it up now, that much is clear -- but for once something worthwhile may stem from his ill intentions.
JadeNB 6y ago
What's so bad about it? Retaliatory historical honesty is a price I'm happy to pay. Better to have the stories told somewhere out there in the world, no matter the reason.
frostburg 6y ago
Very possible but deeply misguided. The US government for all its faults isn't a dictator that has to posture against internal dissent AND most americans don't care.
enriquto 6y ago
> I have bad feeling Turkey's president might go that route and bring it up as a retaliation. That would be a great turn of events for Turkey, Armenia, the U.S. and the world! The U.S. would have the opportunity to respond in kind, acknowledge the North American Genocide, pay reparations for it, and pressure other countries to do the corresponding thing with a very clean face.
- lupire 6y ago
  The North American Genocide is taught in our history books. It's not suppressed.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  You can find out all you want about the genocide of Native Americans (literal tomes of knowledge), it's not hidden. It's not taught as well as it should be in our history books, but you don't get throw in jail referencing it either or threatened with sanctions or ending treaties.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> I have bad feeling Turkey's president might go that route and bring it up as a retaliation. Erdogan explicitly threatened to do so last year: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/erdogan-trump-turkey-us-armenian-genocide-native-americans-a9249101.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/erdogan... Probably a more effective threat when used against a government whose most senior sub-Presidential official dealing with Native American issues isn’t a Native American who has herself explicitly called out the genocide while serving in Congress. At this point, it is kind of like threatening to “acknowledge” that the US has a continuing history of systematic racism against Blacks. It’s true, and a negative, but not exsactly the kind of thing the present government has any problem acknowledging, so its not exactly a useful threat.

Two times genocide awareness for the price of one, so to speak? I'll take it. Erdogan wouldn't have noble motives if he'd bring it up now, that much is clear -- but for once something worthwhile may stem from his ill intentions.

JadeNB 6y ago

What's so bad about it? Retaliatory historical honesty is a price I'm happy to pay. Better to have the stories told somewhere out there in the world, no matter the reason.

frostburg 6y ago

Very possible but deeply misguided. The US government for all its faults isn't a dictator that has to posture against internal dissent AND most americans don't care.

enriquto 6y ago

> I have bad feeling Turkey's president might go that route and bring it up as a retaliation. That would be a great turn of events for Turkey, Armenia, the U.S. and the world! The U.S. would have the opportunity to respond in kind, acknowledge the North American Genocide, pay reparations for it, and pressure other countries to do the corresponding thing with a very clean face.

lupire 6y ago
The North American Genocide is taught in our history books. It's not suppressed.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
You can find out all you want about the genocide of Native Americans (literal tomes of knowledge), it's not hidden. It's not taught as well as it should be in our history books, but you don't get throw in jail referencing it either or threatened with sanctions or ending treaties.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> I have bad feeling Turkey's president might go that route and bring it up as a retaliation. Erdogan explicitly threatened to do so last year: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/erdogan-trump-turkey-us-armenian-genocide-native-americans-a9249101.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/erdogan... Probably a more effective threat when used against a government whose most senior sub-Presidential official dealing with Native American issues isn’t a Native American who has herself explicitly called out the genocide while serving in Congress. At this point, it is kind of like threatening to “acknowledge” that the US has a continuing history of systematic racism against Blacks. It’s true, and a negative, but not exsactly the kind of thing the present government has any problem acknowledging, so its not exactly a useful threat.