The Curmudgeon

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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Statesmanlike Banter

Some ill-mannered posturing by the president of Turkey has caused a more than usually charming outbreak of historical euphemism in the British press. Annoyed by a US Senate vote in favour of recognising the Ottoman Empire's crimes in Armenia as genocide, Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to retaliate by slapping the same uncomplimentary label on the workings of Manifest Destiny. The native American peoples were devastated by the effects of European diseases, unto which the invaders' God had considerately omitted to provide the heathen with immunity. Additionally, as the Independent coyly hints, "war, slavery and displacement also contributed to the decline of indigenous populations," apparently without any particular ill-feeling from anyone. much as war, slavery, displacement and the Press contributed to the decline of European Jewry towards the middle of the last century.

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