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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2021-04-27 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] mountainkiss 2021-04-27 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
There is something weirdly naive about Facebook, and Zuckerberg I think.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-04-27 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
What would be the consequence for the USA if Erdogan did start calling the treatment of Native Americans a genocide?

I'm thinking not much.

Whereas I think Armenia would get some advantage in their ongoing dealings with Turkey.
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[personal profile] calimac 2021-04-27 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
A pretty fair number of Americans would be in sad agreement with Erdogan's classification, so no real change there. My understanding is that most Germans acknowledge the Holocaust in the same way. It's only Turkey which seems to have real problems with its genocide, which is especially odd since it wasn't the Republic of Turkey which was responsible, since that didn't exist yet, but the now long-expired Ottoman Empire.
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[personal profile] kmusser 2021-04-27 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Echoing the above, historians at least already routinely consider the treatment of Native Americans to be genocide, so I'm not sure that is as much of a threat as Erdogan seems to think it is, I can't think of any real consequences from that being more widely acknowledged.
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Erdogan threatens to recognise killings of Native Americans as genocide

[personal profile] anef 2021-04-27 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Erdogan is not acknowledging that the treatment of the Armenians was genocide, he is merely trying to kick America's shins. If both sides acknowledged their culpability and tried to make some restitution, that would be progress. This is just name-calling in the playground.
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As for Trump and the "Christian" Right...

[personal profile] dewline 2021-04-27 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Mr. Tiedemann nails it. Right to the front door of the (church/masjid/shul/gurdwara/etc.).
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