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This sums up what it all boils down to. While the propaganda arms will portray their side as totally innocent and the others, it is more complicated than that. It is a slippery slope because the fact anyone did anything wrong is then used as justification, but this is the truth. https://twitter.com/2020Leaveus/status/1349699278168596480
For example, did any Armenian in Turkey ever kill a Turk? Of course, that is undoubted. Did revolutionary bands occur in context of at least 50 years of complete Ottoman oppression (the idea that "Tanzimat" was a time of reform is a myth, and Hamidian era was an intensification)?
Does the oppression of Armenians justify the killing of any innocent Turk who may have been killed in that period? No of course not, but using a wide lens it is obvious that focusing on Armenian bands while ignoring everything else is hugely problematic. Even up until 1915 most
Armenians continued to be good citizens trying without success to get any kind of justice or fairness from their government, which then turned around & wholesale slaughtered them. The fact some took up arms after all this should not be a surprise, and certainly doesn't invalidate
what happened was a genocide. Ultimately, there are and have always been bad people in every group. We have to admit when those of our own have done such things, understand what might have led to it, and try to avoid the conditions that led to that going forward.
I accidentally left out of the first tweet the word "guilty" after "innocent & the others...". Hate how you can't edit tweets. Also for clarification, yes some revolutionary activity occurred before 1915 but they were survivors of the 1895 Hamidian massacres.
Since I spoke of 
there, for the Azerbaijani side I'll point out that the Baku pogroms we commemorate today were a horrible stain at a time when intercommunal life was collapsing, but they shouldn't be an indictment of all Azerbaijanis or the many who suffered before & after.
there, for the Azerbaijani side I'll point out that the Baku pogroms we commemorate today were a horrible stain at a time when intercommunal life was collapsing, but they shouldn't be an indictment of all Azerbaijanis or the many who suffered before & after.
In light of what happened in DC last week I've been thinking of mob mentality a lot. Here in USA we live among these people who were trying to conduct an operation to kill our elected officials. Does that make all of USA uncivilized? No, but shows twisted danger of mob dynamics.
And I should note the danger of social media which helped promote the vile QAnon and other conspiracies which drove these people along with amplifying the statements of radicals. The radicalizing effect of social media and state propaganda is extremely dangerous, and I feel the
excesses we saw during recent NK war & many war crimes which were broadcast using that same social media show the extreme danger we are up against. These soldiers were fed a steady diet of hatred from Aliyev & social media and look what you get. Glorify killers & more want in.
