Three Turkish Voices At UCLA, November 6

[Anonymouse]

*I couldn't post this in the Genocide section because it won't allow image linking.

[Sip]

Damn parking is up to 8 bucks now?

[Thai-Samurai]

ride a bike you lazy bum!!

[TomServo]

I'll be there.

[bell-the-cat]

This summer I met Prof Göçek on the road to Varagavank monastery - (she didn't look anything much like her photo in that poster though).

However, I would call a "Turkish voice" the voice of someone who was actually living in Turkey - none of them are, I don't even think they are Turkish citizens.
This whole "Turkish voice" thing is a rather racist concept anyway, it is implying that there is one near-uniform "Turkish voice", determined by blood rather than by state propaganda, and that these three are the rare deviants. But what do you expect from people who don't even seem to know how to type Turkish letters in their DTP program!

[Anonymouse]

I'll be there.

I'll be there too, especially since Prof. Hovannisian is organizing this. One of my favorite of my old professors.

[Anonymouse]

This summer I met Prof Göçek on the road to Varagavank monastery - (she didn't look anything much like her photo in that poster though).

However, I would call a "Turkish voice" the voice of someone who was actually living in Turkey - none of them are, I don't even think they are Turkish citizens.
This whole "Turkish voice" thing is a rather racist concept anyway, it is implying that there is one near-uniform "Turkish voice", determined by blood rather than by state propaganda, and that these three are the rare deviants. But what do you expect from people who don't even seem to know how to type Turkish letters in their DTP program!

Would you have been happier if say, they wrote, "Three Turkish Scholars..."? I agree there are no uniform views among Turks, but I think it wasn't meant to be probed in that deep. They could have done a different title, but I particularly did not see that implication, because as you said not all views are uniform.

Furthermore, how do you jump to stating that it as "racist"? Perhaps maybe a bit jingoistic, xenophobic or ethnocentric, but hardly "racist". I'm tired of that word which is really nothing more than a tarbrush.

[TomServo]

I'll be there too, especially since Prof. Hovannisian is organizing this. One of my favorite of my old professors.

You stay away.

[bell-the-cat]

Would you have been happier if say, they wrote, "Three Turkish Scholars..."? I agree there are no uniform views among Turks, but I think it wasn't meant to be probed in that deep. They could have done a different title, but I particularly did not see that implication, because as you said not all views are uniform.

Furthermore, how do you jump to stating that it as "racist"? Perhaps maybe a bit jingoistic, xenophobic or ethnocentric, but hardly "racist". I'm tired of that word which is really nothing more than a tarbrush.

I would have preferred "Three Scholars with an interest in Turkish History". The ethnic origin of the three is entirely irrelevant, and it is offensive to see it mentioned in that poster. UCLA are, by stressing the importance of their race, implying that because a person is from a particular ethnic group they must (regardless of truth or facts) automatically believe what that ethnic group is stereotypically held to uniformly believe. That is racism in my book.

[TomServo]

bell-the-anal-cat.