It's a crime in France to deny the Armenian genocide. The punishment for denial is a year in jail, and a 57,000 fine. I think the Armenian genocide should be recognized. I would also regard anyone going around denying it as a complete fool. But kind of surprised it's illegal to do so in France.
If you (hypothetically) talked about your support for it in public, you probably wouldn't get away with it. Granted, I don't know to what extent France enforces hate speech laws, but they do have them. I looked it up on Wikipedia, this is the part that might apply.:
But there would not be any defaming or insulting of any group, much less for " belonging or not belonging". The opinion would be that that historical fact, was a good thing, historically. NOT that Armenians are bad themselves for any reason. For example , you could say that the last earthquake in Japan was a good thing. Why? Because without earthquakes there would not be any land at all, it would be one big ocean, no land for the Japanese nation to evolve on. Therefore, no earthquakes== no Japanese people in the first place. Same story here, without Turkish butchers an absolute majority of Armenians that are alive now or even lived between 1920--2011 would simply not being born. I don't think many Armenians would choose not being alive ( ever ) over an " allegedly" stronger and more populous Armenian nation. Hell, they wouldn't even BE Armenians if they haven't been born. Therefore, they should be grateful to Turkish butchers and thank them instead of being pissy and reprimanding. I can't be the only one understanding this simple concept, can I?
@thesickearth I disagree with you. Specifically, this, "Same story here, without Turkish butchers an absolute majority of Armenians that are alive now or even lived between 1920--2011 would simply not being born." What? And this, "Therefore, they should be grateful to Turkish butchers and thank them instead of being pissy and reprimanding." No. No they shouldn't. It was an atrocity against them, the genocide itself, and also the events beforehand. This is only a Wiki page, but it describes what happened.
What? Can't you understand written English? Seriously. Once again , THEM didn't exist back then , so it could not be an atrocity against THEM. Furthermore, as I said above, if that event did not happen, present and many already dead Armenians would simply not exist , along with many, many other people of all kinds of different ethnicities. Do I need to explain you how babies are made too? The penises of their grandfathers would not ejaculate into the vaginas of their grandmothers at the same exact time with the same exact cum if such a giant event as that genocide did not happen. Do you get it now? They would never be born in the first place.
Seems like making it a crime to deny, goes a bit far. Anyway, here's a few individual perspectives of supporters of the bill: I found a link to Armenian Weekly on the website of the Armenian National Committee of America, I think it's a good site.