Obama had 8 years to full-fill his promise to recognize the Armenian genocide but in the end, it was merely an empty promise. Hopefully Trump will recognize it.
She was the only one I saw that explained her reasoning behind her vote.
According to Central Council of Jews in Germany, Adolf Hitler used this genocide as a blueprint for the Holocaust.
we criticize Germany quite a bit for various things. But they have gone to the maximum in acknowledging the terrible actions of 80 years ago.
But she voted "present" with the caveat that hey, there was another genocide we should be acknowledging, lets not be hypocrites.
I look forward to seeing Cenk have a fucking conniption and hopefully heart attack trying to hula hoop his way through this.
Not really shocking, the victims of the Holocaust were mainly Europeans and in the case of the Jews very educated ones at that. That means that they were literate in European languages that most developed countries can understand or ones that are easily translated to languages they understand. Not so with Armenians and victims of other major genocides.
Turkey and Japan stand on one end of the spectrum when it comes to dealing with one's past atrocities and Germany on the exact opposite end. Some people, usually right wingers, criticize Germans for how much they self-flagellate over the Holocaust but I imagine most of us can agree that's far more preferable than the nationalist revisionism of the Turks and Japanese.
Eh, that's a weak sauce justification. Acknowledging this atrocity is not mutually exclusive to acknowledging others. Its true there's some identity politics at play since the regime responsible is in the Western imagination a paradigm of Oriental despotism and whose successor state in the current day has tense relations with us. But that shouldn't stop one from speaking the truth.
