Willful ignorance. Cem Arslan yazmış.
Ignoring more than one example of (seemingly)actual ignorance seen below, any intellectual or
thinker worth that adjective and talking on the subject of Cyprus cannot be unaware of the bloody
deeds of EOKA predating the Turkish invasion of Cyprus by two decades and had been the trigger
of intercommunal violence in the island.
For a species that doesn’t care in the slightest about staying moral when the push comes to shove,
we humans are awfully obsessed with acquiring the moral high ground in a discussion of interests.
This is why there are exactly two expectable reactions when one is presented by a set of clearly
cruel, bloody, or criminal deeds committed by one’s own side, both painfully clear evidence of
lacking any argument of substance on the subject.
They either resort to whataboutism(But Turks also killed Greeks!) or to denial(Nope, never
happened, fuck you), as evidenced by the other answers on this thread.
This is in no way a phenomenon unique to Cyprus or to Greeks: it is a fundamental aspect of
human psyche, which under almost all circumstances is too arrogant to be able to admit the fault of
his own side. Any question that can be constructed along the lines of “How come X intellectuals and
thinkers overlook the massacres caused by Y” has the exact same answer: the conflict between the
inherent human will to acquire the moral high ground and the reality of lacking any coherent
argument against the truth laid out before them.
To expand even further, this applies to practically all sort of fallacies. One commits a fallacy when
he has an argument he desires to win, but is unable to conjure an acceptable argument for said
subject. It is when the gap is filled with fallacies, in the often vain hope that it will be sufficient to
win the argument.
This has nothing to do with Greeks: it is a natural instinct subduing every man except the select few
who have learned to truly admit the faults of their side, a group that comprises less than a fraction
of a fraction of a percent of the population on this blue globe of ours. Acts of evil committed by
one’s own side are overlooked when one wishes to gain the moral upper hand, and has no
legitimate argument with which to address said acts of evil.
