RE: Liberal Movement in Islam or Western Islam, the fight against islamic extremism
December 19, 2019 at 8:39 pm
(December 19, 2019 at 1:19 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: The problem is that the countries accusing Turkey of the genocide did commit massive genocides themselves. Which created a tidal-lock; AKA a "Tu quoque argument".
In slang, one would say: "You butchered a whole race of native Americans then threw an atomic bomb on Japan then butchered thousands in Vietnam then spread your crimes to Iraq..and after that you dare to accuse me with genocide?".
Afterwards, Turkey gave Syrian civilians haven when Americans and the west and Russia gave them gangs, accompanied by unlimited support to Assad.
The only "messed up" thing here is the flaming of sectarian wars in the Middle East to gain prophet, supporting mass genocides in the region too.
Dude, your argument itself is a tu quoque. Yes, many of the people calling Turkey out for the Armenian Genocide come from nations that have committed genocide (although I can't find any sign of Armenians themselves committing genocide, and they're the ones most vocal about it), but the difference there is that, many of those nations, you can actually talk about the bad shit their own nations have done without fear of prosecution. And some nations, like Germany, have gone above and beyond in their attempt to try and make it right (things like taking responsibility for their own fuckups on a national level [personal levels are another story, I freely admit], giving reparations to Israel, and clamping down on any attempt to revive the Nazi ideology.)
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