Should the U.S. Senate recognize the Armenian genocide? | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 hidden)
Here goes the ignorance... (none / 0)
What goes through your mind when you hear about Armenians protesting for recognition of the Genocide? Do you think they are asking for a national holiday where everyone takes a day off work to think about the 1.5 million killed? No...the Turkish government denies the genocide ever happened...and in turn, the U.S government has never recognized it, nor cared to do so. What the Armenians want is simple...recognition and a simple statement indicating that the event did indeed happen. Armenians aren't asking for something like black history month. They aren't asking for anything other than recognition that it happened! The Armenian genocide is not published in most history books. The Armenian genocide was an event that the American government brushed under the rug because they have been in bed with the Turkish government for ages...America politically benefits from Turkey...so they screw Armenians in the ass by agreeing NOT to recognize the genocide. Don't be foolish...it wouldn't effect your mundane life anyway whether or not the bill passes. No one would be FORCED to think about the genocide...the bill would simply state the genocide did in fact happen.

No one goes around denying the Holocaust. No one denies whatever terrible thing the Armenians did in the past. But it has always been denied that the Armenian Genocide took place, and that's foolish. It another historical event that the American government hides in light of their precious political allies.

I would love to see the YOUR reaction if someone wrote a blog insisting that we don't recognize the holocaust. You would freak out because that's an incredibly ignorant, careless, and hateful notion. It's something that DID happen in the past and people recognize. So what makes your blog any different? It's just as ignorant and careless.

And before you go around putting Armenians on blast...do your damn research and see what they are asking for. You act as though passing the bill will effect you in some uncalled-for negative way...which is not the case.

by AnaKasparian on 04/27/2008 11:46:58 PM EST

Trying to help (none / 0)

Maybe you should sleep with everyone who significantly advances the cause like that net neutrality chick.

Couldn't hurt.
 

by ProfRich on 04/28/2008 12:31:57 AM EST

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my prediction (none / 0)
You will not be on that list.

by desertpear on 04/28/2008 12:45:12 AM EST

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See, you are proving the point (none / 0)

I am not on that list now (I am not against it, I am just not working overtime to make it happen.) But if we do the Net Neutrality chick plan, now we are having a conversation. 

(Obviously, I am kidding.  I have nothing but respect for AK-47 and figured since her job is to ridicule stuff like the Net chick she can take a joke.) 

And I am not going to LA for any girl and besides that's crazy. Sex? Come on. Look, I'm married. So none of that. That will put me in trouble.

I will point out, if it hasn't been already, when Hitler's advisors asked if killing the Jews was a bad idea because it would bring Germany unwanted enemies, his response was "Nobody cared when the Turks killed the Armenians."  That seems to suggest pretty strongly it was genocide, huh? 

 

by ProfRich on 04/28/2008 12:54:38 AM EST

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Should the U.S. Senate recognize the Armenian genocide? | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 hidden)