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#41 Boghos

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Posted 16 July 2003 - 03:51 AM

Dear Domino,

Documenting and discussing the genocide, in other words making sure that history is not falsified is very comendable. Believing that it will have any impact in Turkey or Turks is wishful thinking. However there should be no link between them, in other words first class scholarship should not be abandoned just because the "intended" audience doesn´t care. Doesn´t the government of Turkey say that the AG is an issue better left for historians ? Let´s call their bluff at the right table when the right time comes.

Our audience today is anything but Turkey. And even to this broader one we have to present our case in an intelligent manner, not with the usual flavour that we have been used too, but in a much more subtle and persuasive way. In fact this has been going on all along. Perhaps not at the strength we would have liked for a variety of reasons, and certainly not with the desired effect. More on this later.

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Posted 16 July 2003 - 09:53 AM

Dear Domino,

Documenting and discussing the genocide, in other words making sure that history is not falsified is very comendable. Believing that it will have any impact in Turkey or Turks is wishful thinking. However there should be no link between them, in other words first class scholarship should not be abandoned just because the "intended" audience doesn´t care. Doesn´t the government of Turkey say that the AG is an issue better left for historians ? Let´s call their bluff at the right table when the right time comes.

Our audience today is anything but Turkey. And even to this broader one we have to present our case in an intelligent manner, not with the usual flavour that we have been used too, but in a much more subtle and persuasive way. In fact this has been going on all along. Perhaps not at the strength we would have liked for a variety of reasons, and certainly not with the desired effect. More on this later.

What I meant by audience, it was the Turkish audience, I am not writting them anymore to convince them, but for the pleasure to destroy their claims, that brings one thing, it prepares us to study the denialist theses and be prepared to confront it. The rest of the world, in such confrontation between two theses, will see which part has the strongest arguments.




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