The trouble of describing genocide
Added 2019-11-05 01:35:37 +0000 UTC I am having trouble writing the chapter of the video that is about the Armenian genocide. It is an important chapter. one of the most important chapters. Not only because there are people who to this day deny that the Armenian genocide happened. but because it is a seminal and important moment in the 20th century. The systematic, organized and industriously executed extermination of a million people, is something that had not happened in human history before that moment. A state, nation, kingdom, had never before in history dedicated the resources and material of a state to annihilate a people from within, on such a scale. It is, therefore, no surprise that the Armenian genocide is often brought up by historians almost as a precursor to the holocaust that happened 30 years later. And even though the Turkish Republic denies these horrific events to this day, it is also cursed by them. A society that can not confront the demons of it's past, is a society that is followed and tormented by those demons. So the story of the modern Turkish state is also a story of the Armenian genocide.
The problem I have is in the presentation.
I simply can't use countryballs or cartoons or memes or other while talking about the Armenian genocide. I also don't wish to use pictures of these crimes, of which there are many. neither do I want to use music in combination with an essay of moral condemnation.
I believe that the facts alone. Presented, in a cold and ordered manner, should be enough. I don't believe that you, my audience, need to be told why genocide is bad. I wish to focus on how it came to be, and why it matters in the formation of modern political dilemmas and aggressions.
And this... is frankly new to me. In previous videos about the holocaust, I didn't do this. So I am having a bit of trouble writing this. As it is a new territory for me.
