Aurani wrote:
I never said such a thing. Don't put things like that into my mouth.
What thing? I said a few things in there so it's hard to pin that down.
I'm not claiming today's populace of Turkey is accountable for the Armenian Genocide,
I didn't really say that either, but you cleared up your point a whole lot thanks to that.
but they sure as Hell support it, if even subtly.
You sure about that?
THAT is what the crux of my post above was. I can't blame them for what their grandfathers and great grandfathers have done, but I CAN if they "cheer" for such past actions.
Fair enough
I still remember a poll that was conducted in Turkey around 2012 (don't quote me on that, my memory is fuzzy as for the exact details such as the date) showed that three fourths of the people there consider Ataturk a hero of the country for "removing the Armenian threat". Now, focus on the last sentence - they worship that person not only for "modernising" Turkey, but for actually brutally murdering a whole ethnic group.
Yes, and I'm sure people affirm Lincoln ended slavery knowing full well all the details behind the Civil War. You see, if I was in charge of propaganda and nationalism was my thing, I'd know full well those numbers could easily be bullshit. That's statistics. Now, if you told me that you know a bunch of Turkish people and that their character lines up pretty well with what you've described me, I'd buy it.
Usually I don't buy into blanket statements like that because I've seen statistics and they're far too easy to manipulate. Only reason why I'd believe someone if they told me that all Argentinians are assholes is because, well, all Argentinians I've had the pleasure to speak to face to face have
been assholes. In other words, an
anecdote would be better than a
poll.
You see Nancy, I'm not going to judge a whole bunch of people even if they did support Ataturk the Mass Murderer because I doubt most of them even see him the way you do. I know what it's like to sit in a history class and have your teacher ramble on about how justice was always on your country's side while holding back those little bits about who threw the first punch because it was "total chaos" or "there were no witnesses."
Unless you could prove that they all do indeed hate Armenia and support Turkleton knowing full well what he did.
The latter part of my previous post was that they aren't alone in that. EVERY country has those kind of people, but in some, like Turkey - as taken in the example, they are figuratively covering their own feces and primal instincts with social facades, and that Minecraft scandal is merely one of many.
I can see that odd logic there but that only holds if the same nationalists were the ones banning video games.
It's like India banning porn. I doubt it's the general populace's choice because every Indian I've talked to complains to me about how even showing a woman's neck is too risque over there.