Petition updateCenk Uygur to publicly acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and retract his article from 1991Cenk STILL won't recognise the Armenian Genocide

Thinkin Abowtitsalford, ENG, United Kingdom
May 3, 2016
This was Cenks statement.
"Today, I rescind the statements I made in my Daily Pennsylvanian article from 1991 entitled, “Historical Fact of Falsehood? When I wrote that piece, I was a 21 year-old kid, who had a lot of opinions that I have since changed. Back then I had many political positions that were not well researched. For example, back in those days I held a pro-war rally for the Persian Gulf War. Anyone who knows me now knows that I am a very different person today.
I also rescind the statements I made in a letter to the editor I wrote in 1999 on the same issue. Back then I had a very different perspective and there were many things that I did not give due weight. On this issue, I should have been far, far more respectful of so many people who had lost family members. Their pain is heart-wrenching and should be acknowledged by all.
My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about.
Thank you for being patient with me on this issue, though I might not have always merited it."
So, despite the pressure, he still refuses to acknowledge the genocide of some 1,500,000 people by the group he names his show after, merely stating that he is not enough of a scholar to know if it happened or not. DISGRACE.
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