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The original was posted on /r/armenia by /u/gaidz on 2024-09-06 09:04:26+00:00.

Something I’ve been noticing lately is that Armenians don’t really push back against Armenian Genocide denial and when they do they do a pretty poor job at it. For instance, when Turks say something along the lines of “it was a justified reaction to an Armenian rebellion and they sided with the Russians” most people respond with “So what? That doesn’t make it justified” or something along those lines. Basically accepting the denialist narrative that there was an Armenian rebellion in the first place when Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire remained loyal and that most of the fighting the Turks had with Armenians were with the Armenian citizens of the Russian Empire that were at war with the Ottomans at the time.

In June, TRT published a comprehensive denialist documentary filled with so much blatant disinformation and half truths that received virtually no pushback and no fact checking whatsoever.

Most Armenians are baffled that anyone would deny something so obvious and don’t really see this worth debating, but like we’ve seen with the Holocaust, treating it as something that can’t be debated and not fact checking allows for denialist disinformation to go unchecked and eventually seep into the mainstream (like we have recently seen with Kanye West, Candace Owens, the latest Tucker Carlson interview). Now I’m not saying that Armenian Genocide denial will go mainstream worldwide because we don’t have the same amount of recognition, but in Turkish society and in the Muslim world it pretty much has already gone mainstream with no pushback whatsoever.

Don’t really have a solution to this, I’m going to start a twitter account dedicated to responding to disinformation and fact checking but there also needs to be an effort from scholars and even the ANCA (something they can be really useful at for once) to help push back on this.