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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Whose propaganda have you been reading on the successor state stuff? The Armenian Genocide was a key chapter in the rise of the Young Turks, who ultimately formed the Turkish state and whose ideology is still very much at the center of the state.
Does this mean you view acts that memorialize and commemorate the Holocaust as futile? Are acts like the Pope's apology for the Holy See's complicity and failure to oppose the Holocaust futile?
This may be a symbolic gesture, but it has great meaning for Turks, who very much need to reexamine this part of their history. Instead, they outlaw discussion of it.
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My memory was off a bit on the involvement of Ataturk and his band of thugs. The Turks have a lot of soul-searching to do. As best I recall, the U.S. House of Representatives is not now, and never was, part of the Young Turks.
And I would be a whole lot more impressed by seeing the Vatican actually taking steps to increase inter-faith understanding and tolerance, like for instance, acknowledging that Jews and Catholics, and for that matter Protestants and Muslims, all worship the same God, than I am by some hollow words unaccompanied by action.
And when I used the word "futile" I was referring not to the efforts of a people to correct past abuses. I was describing the action of the House as being futile. The notion that they believe they can issue a resolution deploring genocide and the people they are pointing fingeres at will miraculously see the error of their ways is what I find objectionable.
