Genocide? What Genocide? The U.S. Memory Hole Operates on Turkish Time
THE CLAIM: What are they telling us? Vice President JD Vance's office initially posted a message acknowledging the 1915 Armenian Genocide following his visit to a memorial. This post was then deleted, and his staff attributed it to an 'error,' effectively disavowing the recognition. This narrative suggests an accidental mishap, a lone staffer’s slip of the finger, rather than a calculated
diplomatic maneuver. THE EVIDENCE: What does the public record actually show? The 1915 mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire are widely recognized by international scholars and numerous nations as genocide, including by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (1997). The U.S. Congress officially recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2019, and President Biden formally
acknowledged it in 2021, breaking with decades of presidential precedent. For Vance's office to now brand a recognition as an 'error' flies in the face of established U.S. policy, however recent its adoption. THE CONTRADICTIONS: Where does the official narrative break down? The 'error' excuse for a U.S. Vice President's official communication regarding a widely documented historical event is,
frankly, a dereliction of basic staff protocol or, more likely, a convenient euphemism. It contradicts the public stance taken by President Biden in 2021, and the bipartisan Congressional resolution that preceded it. One might wonder why, after a physical visit to a memorial, the acknowledgement of the atrocity would be considered an 'error.' The immediate retraction, post-visit, suggests