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The Armenians called, they are asking how the Assyrians and the Pontic Greeks are doing.

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[–] lemmyng 79 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well who better to say than the experts? Turkey got so good at genocide, they definitively know one when they see it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Apparently some historians got so tired of keeping track of all the individual Ottoman genocides, massacres and pogroms that they've lumped them all together into the Late Ottoman genocides. To be fair though, that umbrella also includes plenty of Muslim populations getting much the same treatment in the Christian countries created as the Ottoman Empire contracted.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Pfft, Turkiye are rank amateurs compared to Western Europe. They barely even genocided outside their borders.

Western Europeans have committed genocide across every continent and may have killed ~90% in two of them. The land and resources we stole from the victims of our genocides is the foundation stone of all western power to the present.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You....you realize that the ottomans did all that too right? You've seen how big the ottoman empire got at its peak right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They gave it a good shot but they didn't wipe out 90% of the population of both north and south america.

[–] theacharnian 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

TBF, the 90% of indigenous people in the Americas died due to disease. Some cases like those infamous smallpox blankets were on purpose, yes, but the vast majority was not. Can't blame the westerners for not knowing how immune systems work in the 1500s.

Not that they weren't genocidal maniacs with the 10% that remained of course.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Britain, Spain, and France: truly the greatest pirates in history. Absolute masters of the art of "rape, pillage, murder".

[–] theacharnian 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

What's that pejorative slang Israelis call holocaust survivors? Soap.