• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The guy who named his media organization after a group responsible for multiple genocides is an “anti genocide host”?

    The show’s name Young Turks has been criticized and called for change[35] due to the original Young Turks political movement in the Ottoman Empire being responsible for committing the Armenian genocide, the Assyrian genocide, and the Greek genocide.[37][36] Alex Galitsky, who works for the Armenian National Committee of America, stated “If a group decided to call themselves ‘the Young Nazis’, and pitched themselves as a disruptor or anti-establishment news outlet, people would be rightly outraged”.[37]

    In 1991, Cenk Uygur wrote an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania, in which he promoted Armenian genocide denial.[155] In 2016, Cenk Uygur posted a statement on TYT’s website in which he rescinded his Armenian Genocide denial statements, arguing: "My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about."[156][157] In response to the criticism he has explained that the name of the show was chosen because it is a popular colloquialism traditionally meaning a young radical who fights the status quo.[36]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenk_Uygur#Controversies

    If you don’t have the same opinion on all genocides, no one should listen to you about genocides.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah we get it…

        Some genocides are ok with you

        Cenk went from actively denying a genocide his namesake organization committed for decades, then “progressed” to saying he wouldn’t comment on it when it threatened his money

        Hes a piece of shit and it doesn’t make sense why everyone defends him just cuz they like his nephew’s twitch channel.