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[martinuzz]

Today, our parliament has voted in favour of officially recognizing the massacre of about 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide.
The government though, does not want to call it that yet, possibly out of fear for riots, like which happened when Germany recognized it as a genocide.
They will still call it ' the Armenian Issue', like they have been calling it for decades, to not offend the Turks.

The parliament however, will now try to force the government to send a minister to the official Armenian genocide memorial service, coming 24th of April in Jerevan.
A motion to this effect will be put to vote in parliament next week.
This is a very strong signal, both, because the government will be forced, if not by words, but by action to acknowledge it as a genocide, secondly because on previous memorials, the only countries sending a member of government were France, and eastern-orthodox countries like Serbia and Russia.

This comes at a time when Dutch-Turkish relations are already at an all time low. This will most certainly not improve that.

[Loud Whispers]

The UK, US and Israel are among those that use different terminology to describe the events.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16352745

Disappointed the UK is up there tbh. Absolutely shameful display

[da_nang]

Today, our parliament has voted in favour of officially recognizing the massacre of about 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide.
The government though, does not want to call it that yet, possibly out of fear for riots, like which happened when Germany recognized it as a genocide.

Remind me what the benefits of multiculturalism are again?

[TD1]

Shhhh, we do not question multiculturalism here. The lefties come to this place to spawn; it crawls with them

[smjjames]

Shhhh, we do not question multiculturalism here. The lefties come to this place to spawn; it crawls with them

lol......

[Sheb]

Shhhh, we do not question multiculturalism here. The lefties come to this place to spawn; it crawls with them

Nah, don't worry, I think this forum has a fairly solid anti-immigrants and anti-muslims bend by now.

[smjjames]

Th4DwArfY1 was making a joke you know, the smiley face indicated he wasn't being serious.

[Maximum Spin]

Compared to, say, Holocaust deniers, which Germany had to make into a crime due to its prevalence.

Huh, notice how — despite the fact that making it a crime probably only made it worse anyway — the German government officially recognised the Holocaust, and even made denying it a crime, and... didn't have fear of riots.

In fact, Holocaust denial was never very prevalent in Germany at all, and the laws were more about political maneuvering to suppress far-right political parties.

[Maximum Spin]

It's funny that you say that because I actually am an open borders advocate XD

[Loud Whispers]

Remind me what the benefits of multiculturalism are again?

DOOD
FOOD
LMAO

[smjjames]

Remind me what the benefits of multiculturalism are again?

DOOD
FOOD
LMAO

Yes, you British like Dood Food.

lol, I dunno.

[Loud Whispers]

Yes, you British like Dood Food.

lol, I dunno.

For context, the UK is renown for their stout, bitter and simple horsefeed food, and subsequently one of the major arguments from the Remain and Liberal campaigners from the UK has been "lmao u guys r gonna be poor eatin beans, aint got no French wine now," conflating immigration with the ability to transfer cooking recipes. It's usually the same gits who go to a gentrified restaurant to post pictures of their ""authentic"" Indian food that's been cooked by a Scotsman

[redwallzyl]

It's funny that you say that because I actually am an open borders advocate XD

I would likely be one as well. but between countries on an equal footing and can advocate of their citizens. Its a much to easy to exploit to the detriment of everyone by less then well meaning people otherwise. Rather like free trade. When one side in supposedly free trade is dominant it becomes more like free to exploit you without interference trade. This agreement does not mean I either like or forgive you for what you said the other day.

[martinuzz]

Heh. The Dutch aren't ready for a Brexit. At least, their customs aren't.
It is calculated that we need to hire 1000 new people to work at the customs office / border checkpoints.
Currently there are 4600 people working there, so that's a 20% increase.
Training new customs officers takes 9 months, but the government is now considering offering a shortened variant of the training course to have enough customs officers ready when the Brexit pulls through.
The UK is the third largest trading partner of the Netherlands, so Brexit is going to hurt us.

[Sheb]

Remind me what the benefits of multiculturalism are again?

DOOD
FOOD
LMAO

Yes, you British like Dood Food.

lol, I dunno.

Also, we're apparently unable to have any serious discussion about immigration, with the anti-camp unable to do anything but snarky comments without proper grammar, and the pro-camp unable to do anything but simmer in rage.