Thread by @sfrantzman

That’s a new low for the pro-Ankara desk, to whitewash and deny the Armenian Genocide as “upheavals”…I wonder if they also call the Holocaust “upheavals”. Why is it that when it comes to reporting on Ankara, the Ankara desk is more far-right and reactionary than the regime

https://twitter.com/amberinzaman/status/1450950880442949639

It’s not an “upheaval” when people are systematically ethnic cleansed and deported and genocided. The same media can report with empathy about migrants at the US border, why can’t they have empathy for Armenians? And also why do they continue to whitewash genocide in Afrin?

These same media talk about “facts matter” and “truth matters” and “democracy dies in darkness”….well describing extermination and genocide as “upheavals” is exactly how truth is eviscerated.

When I learn about the Holocaust I also learn about the Armenian Genocide and when I see how major media and lobbies worked hard to deny the genocide I understand how easy it would have been for a similar thing to happen with the Shoah

The only reason the genocide is denied is because of Ankara and its tentacles which tried to strangle the ability of US media to even mention “genocide” and also funded academics and even got major “human rights” groups to not say “genocide”

It wasn’t so long ago in 2007 where someone was even fired for daring to mention the genocide in the US; but a long struggle has enabled people to speak about it.

Any newspaper that tries to whitewash the Armenian Genocide should look in the mirror and ask if they do the same with the Holocaust. This whole “we might offend the far-right regime in Ankara” isn’t an excuse. Since when is offending the racist far-right reason to deny genocide

He fact major US media are afraid to use the term Armenian Genocide is a tragic blemish. Those who can’t say it should look in the mirror and see a Holocaust denier looking back. You can’t deny one Genocide and recognize another.

And using weasel words like “upheaval” to describe the total deportation and killing of a community is gross. We just commemorated Babi Yar, it wasn’t an “upheaval” either encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

When I was a kid my mom used to tell me about the Armenian Genocide…it was only later in university that people said it was “controversial” because a foreign government and NATO member was plowing money into denial.

They had so much power, the denial lobby, that even for the US president to say “genocide” was controversial; the Ankara lobby tried to take over US media, universities, think tanks and human rights groups. Only this year Biden stood up to them whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…