The Globe reports Clear Channel will remove a billboard denying the Armenian holocaust happened, just up the street from the site of an annual commemoration of that holocaust. The company says the ad was put up by mistake.
UPDATE: Billboard ad to be taken down.
No, not the World War II holocaust, but the World War I holocaust in which Turks slaughtered Armenians. Elizabeth Weinbloom forwarded a photo of a new billboard over Cross and Salem streets, just up Cross from the Greenway's Armenian Heritage Park, site of the annual commemoration of the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in the old Ottoman Empire. Read more.
Matt Conti photographed the Armenian genocide remembrance on the Greenway today.
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Jen Langley doesn't get why Tom Menino is so opposed to the idea of an Armenian genocide memorial atop the Big Dig:
... There's the Holocaust Memorial and several Irish Potato Famine memorials. There's a Hungarian Revolution Monument. There's an African American History Museum and statues of Leif Eriksson.
Menino helped put a memorial to Sacco and Venzetti in the Boston Public Library!
Dan thinks Harvey Silverglate might be on the wrong side of the Armenian-holocaust debate. Silverglate is one of the lawyers seeking to overturn a state Holocaust curriculum that does not allow for the possibility that what Armenians call Turkish genocide might just have been a nasty civil war. In a long post in which he acknowledges he's not sure exactly what to think, Dan says:
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