Oh my Kobe! You’ve really stirred up a hornet’s nest now – what with this two-year agreement you’ve signed with Turkish Airlines: You’ve got the entire Southern California Armenian population in an uproar and prepared to boycott Laker games!
I’m sure you didn’t know how the Armenian community would react, Kobe, though probably only a fraction of the purportedly 700,000 – 800,000 are Laker fans. But many-of-us are not surprised by the local Armenian outrage: you need “someone in the know” to advise you of the pitfalls involved when dealing with Turks.
Just about everyone knows that the Turks killed a-million-and-a-half Armenians circa 1915-1917 and the Turks (then the Ottoman Empire) continue to maintain that they were at war and that the dead were casualties. Many nations (over 20) have agreed with the Armenians that genocide did indeed take place – but it appears that Armenian outrage will persist until the Turks publically admit that the killing of one-and-a-half-million Armenians was genocide (the U.S. still won’t do it, and now, the Turks are trying to get ‘tight’ with Israel). I have told Giti that I’m betting that a minimum of 4 Illuminati — sponsor Turkey – and that’s why no one wants to mess with the Turks!
I don’t think the Turks will ever cop to genocide – and it doesn’t seem like the Armenians will ever stop wanting them to and it is this latter dynamic that has Kobe hung up with the Armenian community: there seems to be an implicit sentiment, some genetic enculturation – that allows Armenians to condemn anyone who doesn’t apprehend the genocide like they do. In other words – with regards to the Armenian genocide – you are absolutely “with them”; or, you are totally against them! And if you are against them – they will not rest until, well, until, well…let’s ferret this out a bit…
I alluded to some type of cultural stamping that makes the Armenian unique (much like recent genetic research that suggests Jews have an unique gene that identifies them as being Jewish) – and I wonder if this isn’t the case with the Armenian?
As a high school teacher I had a number of Armenian students in my class and I always seemed to get along well the Armenian males – who treated me as if I were an honorary Armenian – while the high school Armenian girls always seemed to be chaperoned by a brother, or male cousin – or, some family-linked male (apparently being “protected” from non-Armenian influences).