Michigan Daily, MI
April 15 2007

I Influence the NY Times . . . just kidding

By Jared Goldberg, written on Apr. 14, 2007

Two weeks and a day after my column on the Armenian Genocide, The New
York Times runs an interesting editorial on it. A nice little quote:

`It’s odd that Turkey’s leaders have not figured out by now that
every time they try to censor discussion of the Armenian genocide,
they only bring wider attention to the subject and link today’s
democratic Turkey with the now distant crime. [Emphasis added, ed.]’

It’s that one line that got me. It definitely addressed something
that I did not, and which further demonstrates my point that it is
frivolous, even for the Turks, to continue to deny the genocide.

The government that carried out the genocide was a different one than
Ataturk’s, and certainly different than that of the present day
Republic of Turkey. As the NY Times pointed out, the more the current
government denies the genocide, the differences between that old
government and this new one diminish.

If you happen to wander over to the Daily’s site and look at the
comments for my column, they now number about 50. Many of those who
have posted negatively, demonstrate the absurdity of denial. A little
FYI, I did do my research. I’ve probably read and studied more on the
subject than the jackasses who wander over to the site to deny the
Armenian Genocide. There will come a time when Turkey will recognize
the genocide. It’s a just a question of when.

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