I am just dumbfounded right now. The only people in that screenshot who even came close to mentioning the Armenian massacres were sgtpepper9764 and possibly ShinigamiLeaf and VoccioBiturix. The rest were romanticizing the Ottoman Empire. I’ll admit that it probably wasn’t among the worst empires in the premodern era, but I’d rather have something better entirely than a return to an empire!
What happpened to r/ShitLiberalsSay? I doubt that this would have gone unpunished half a decade ago, but here they are.
I hate begging people to read books since I’m assuming that few of us have that kind of time to spare, but I strongly recommend to anybody with little or no familiarity of the massacres to at least add Professor Stefan Ihrig’s Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler to your reading list. He not only describes the massacres theirselves but also their links to the German Empire and how many papers in Weimar Republic explicitly justified them. In fact, there could hardly be a better time to read this given the anti‐Palestinian sentiment in the West and its media right now; you are sure to get a sense of déjà vu.
Reading sgtpepper9764’s comment was one hell of a ride. He may mention the Armenian genocide but no mention of forcible conversions to islam or stuff like the blood tax.
I am just dumbfounded right now. The only people in that screenshot who even came close to mentioning the Armenian massacres were sgtpepper9764 and possibly ShinigamiLeaf and VoccioBiturix. The rest were romanticizing the Ottoman Empire. I’ll admit that it probably wasn’t among the worst empires in the premodern era, but I’d rather have something better entirely than a return to an empire!
What happpened to r/ShitLiberalsSay? I doubt that this would have gone unpunished half a decade ago, but here they are.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
The Armenian massacres were basically the Holocaust of WWI: the Ottoman Imperialists exterminated at least 800,000 Armenians in a ferocious campaign to make room for Turkish settlers, and it received a great deal of equipment and even some personnel from the German Empire for its extermination. In fact, there were so many links between the German and Ottoman Empires that it would have been quite a coincidence if these massacres weren’t on the German Fascists’ minds at all during the 1940s!
I hate begging people to read books since I’m assuming that few of us have that kind of time to spare, but I strongly recommend to anybody with little or no familiarity of the massacres to at least add Professor Stefan Ihrig’s Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler to your reading list. He not only describes the massacres theirselves but also their links to the German Empire and how many papers in Weimar Republic explicitly justified them. In fact, there could hardly be a better time to read this given the anti‐Palestinian sentiment in the West and its media right now; you are sure to get a sense of déjà vu.
Reading sgtpepper9764’s comment was one hell of a ride. He may mention the Armenian genocide but no mention of forcible conversions to islam or stuff like the blood tax.