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Yeah, once I was watching the Ottoman Lieutenant with my wife and parents - I turned it off because the film seemed to be denying the Armenian genocide.
by catgary 5y ago
Yeah, once I was watching the Ottoman Lieutenant with my wife and parents - I turned it off because the film seemed to be denying the Armenian genocide.
- caspper69 5y agoYou must be fun at parties. In my day, we had to constantly pick and choose our battles so we didn't come across as assholes. I guess going the opposite direction and airing every single tiny grievance to any person who will listen eliminates that minor inconvenience; everyone gets offended. But on the plus side you don't get offended anymore, and that's all that matters nowadays anyway.
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoIf the person you’re responding to is Armenian Who lost family members to the genocide I don’t think a movie denying that is a minor inconvenience.
- caspper69 5y agoI would think any sane person on this Earth would have the decency not to show such a film in the presence of a person with the background you describe. More likely, this person was offended and had no vested interest, as is all to often the case.
- catgary 5y agoI’m sorry that I’m aware of the Armenian genocide and get weirded out when people act like it didn’t happen or was justified. Would you keep watching a movie that took the stance “slavery wasn’t so bad” or “well we can all agree Hitler took things overboard, but you know the Jewish people in Europe weren’t perfect neighbours”?
- catgary 5y agoI’m sorry I’m aware of Armenian genocide, and the genocide denial aspect of the film is well detailed in the movie’s Wikipedia page so it took all of ten minutes to confirm what was happening. To be fair, I think it helped that it is a pretty easy movie to leave halfway through. Nobody seemed to mind.