Kings apologize for selling Turkish-made scarves on Armenian Night

[LuckyDay]

Wer redet heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier?

No one should be laughing about the Armenian genocide. You can look up the 100,000 children in the desert. I won't post the picture here.

I'm surprised they even got a Turkish company to do this and it wasn't even sabotaged. It's the colors of the Armenian flag and there was even another dust up between Azerbaijan over the oil region and Russia and Turkey once again got involved. Someone at the company would have noticed.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Like what are we going to do here ? Tell this Turkish company that the Kings have a deal with "Sorry we're going back on our deal because of an atrocity your government committed about 100 years ago that you had no part in"

I mean, yes?

Why is this so difficult?

Do a different product or promotional item for that night, "promotional scarves made in Turkey" aren't some precious one of a kind item that's irreplaceable on the docket

And if your whole argument is about "but we have a CONTRACT" then fine fulfill the contract and just don't give them out.

There's a number of ways this could have been handled/solved that don't require your full-throated defense of a bad decision using a bunch of terrible analogues.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Nope, they’re wrong. Those are the nicest scarves made, everyone knows it, and look- it’d be great if they could get along, wouldn’t it be, folks? And rejecting their scarves isn’t a great start. So I think apologies are in order, from the very nasty media. Thank you.

 

[Herby]

I guess we know what job Luc's son got in the organization after the music career flopped.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

I love seeing ethnic grievances imported in this fashion. Really warms my heart.

 

[Statto]

So close to ordering the correct scarves…. “We were right there… “

 

[Ducati Boy]

Lot of weird takes in this thread.

All I know is that when I am tasked with ordering supplies for an event, my very first thought is to check if the item in question was made in a country that might have a historical beef with the recipients. I do that all the time when I buy onions for my Croatian neighbours for example.

Oh yeah- and what's all the stuff about learning history or not in schools? Like, you can only know things that someone explicitly taught you in the public education system? Is that our one and only source of knowledge?

But, hey, I can understand the outrage and finger-pointing of some here. Not only are you superior in your knowledge of the Armenian genocide, but like other hand-wringing finger-pointers you are also clearly more compassionate and caring than the rest of us, which is why you have earned the right to call others incompetent idiots.

 

[KPower]

Just leave these BS nights out of hockey

 

[Johnny HFBOARDS]

How did they find out? Postage Stamp on package?

 

[pekka55]

Who gives a shit? If we go down this road, then you can't sell anything made anywhere, because human history is filled with this shit.

 

[Staniowski]

It's doubtful that any group of people in the world hate another people quite like Armenians hate Turks. If you've never witnessed it, it's impossible to understand. It's the core of modern Armenian identity.

 

[kingsholygrail]

How did they find out? Postage Stamp on package?

Probably a little tag on them that has instructions for washing and wear it was made.

 

[pekka55]

It's always funny when things like this backfire. Who's surprised though? They probably put some 25 year old in charge of ordering scarves, how the f*** would they know anything about a beef that happened 100 years ago?

Best thing would be to just stop having stupid nights like this. No matter how good your intentions are, there's always going to be people bitching about something.

 

[MoneyManny]

Best thing would be to just stop having stupid nights like this. No matter how good your intentions are, there's always going to be people bitching about something.

Nobody can do anything without stepping on a landmine in this social climate and everybody still pretends in public to give a shit about everybody else's little sensibilities it's hilarious.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I don't know if this is insensitive. The genocide was horrible obviously but these were scarves.

I know some orthodox Jews don't buy German cars but I don't believe outside of the orthodox community that's a thing.

 

[JoVel]

Nobody can do anything without stepping on a landmine in this social climate and everybody still pretends in public to give a shit about everybody else's little sensibilities it's hilarious.

It's not a "can't do anything these days" thing. If you plan on making selling scarves for an Armenian night, the only thing you need to check is whether the scarves were made in Turkey or not. If they aren't, everyone will be happy.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

My ancestors didn't leave Armenia because of struggle and prejudice. They left because Turkey tried to exterminate the Armenian people, and nearly succeeded. I get that the current Turkish people weren't the ones who did it, but I'm still not sure how to forgive a genocide that erased whole branches of my family tree. Especially when the Turkish government still mostly refuses to admit it even happened.

Wow,crazy how some people can't admit their wrongs

 

[MoneyManny]

It's not a "can't do anything these days" thing. If you plan on making selling scarves for an Armenian night, the only thing you need to check is whether the scarves were made in Turkey or not. If they aren't, everyone will be happy

It's an extremely minor detail that people pretend to be angry about because other people told them to be upset about it.

Maybe they should just let go of a conflict that happened a century ago, across the planet. Or maybe French people should still be mad at Italians for Julius Caesar's Gaul massacres. What's the statute of limitations for crazy tribal vendettas across the ages?

 

[Albatros]

It's not a "can't do anything these days" thing. If you plan on making selling scarves for an Armenian night, the only thing you need to check is whether the scarves were made in Turkey or not. If they aren't, everyone will be happy.

It's Türkiye.

 

[chris kontos]

Lot of weird takes in this thread.

All I know is that when I am tasked with ordering supplies for an event, my very first thought is to check if the item in question was made in a country that might have a historical beef with the recipients. I do that all the time when I buy onions for my Croatian neighbours for example.

Oh yeah- and what's all the stuff about learning history or not in schools? Like, you can only know things that someone explicitly taught you in the public education system? Is that our one and only source of knowledge?

But, hey, I can understand the outrage and finger-pointing of some here. Not only are you superior in your knowledge of the Armenian genocide, but like other hand-wringing finger-pointers you are also clearly more compassionate and caring than the rest of us, which is why you have earned the right to call others incompetent idiots.

you can include this take as a weird one in this thread. although im not sure that weird is the descriptor that accurately describes sarcasm as a commentary on responses to genocide or education levels of others.
everything else removed, the event described by the op is yet more objective evidence of the kings organizational idiocy.