Egalicontrarian » great catastrophe http://egalicontrarian.com a blog full of magic Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:23:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nope http://egalicontrarian.com/index.php/2009/04/25/nope/ http://egalicontrarian.com/index.php/2009/04/25/nope/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:40:13 +0000 Joshua Blanchard http://egalicontrarian.com/?p=110 Didn’t acknowledge the genocide. However, Obama still has at least the rest of one term to go. Technically he could acknowledge it on the last day of his presidency and still fulfill his very clear promise. A couple things about this are odd to me, in addition to what I mentioned in my other post. First: The Ottoman Empire does not exist anymore. Do we sugarcoat the crimes of the Soviet Union and the Nazis in order not to offend Russia and Germany? Second: If you can say all this and all this, why can’t you use the word genocide?

A few might be satisfied to note that Turkey did not love the speech. Of questionable significance is that according to some, Obama used the “Armenian equivalent” of genocide in the speech. But I don’t buy it. “Meds Yeghern” apparently means “Great Catastrophe,” not genocide. In other words, Armenians use it to mean the genocide in question, not genocide. This would be analogous to a President using the term “The Shoah,” but refusing to call the Holocaust a genocide.

Massacre at Erzinjan

Massacre at Erzinjan

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