You may have witnessed this TikTok trend of women asking their men

@WolfGirlwh0r3 yes even catholics tend to be very devout and kind people, but the institutionnn of religion screws us all, agreed!

@foldedunfolding My biggest Christ based religeous group is the conservative fundimentalists the ones who say the earth is 4000 years old and the Bible is total true events, and the main church structure i mean bad people will do bad in the name of their faith and you cant decry a whole people for a few bad eggs

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@foldedunfolding well, the Byzantine Empire was a huge center of culture, technology and history. While Byzantines did conquer, they still respected the natives of the region. When Byzantium fell to the Selçuks and later Osmanlis, the region became much more oppressive, forced conversions were common and the indigenous people colonized.

This all culminated in 1915 with the Greek, Assyrian and Armenian Genocides. Constantinople until then wasn't Turkish.
Even after the Ottoman Empire fell and the Republic of Turkey started, Greeks, Armenians and Jewish people had oppressive taxation, banning of their languages and surnames and pogroms against them.

Basically what the Turks did in Thrace, Anatolia and Cyprus is no different to what the WASPs did to Native Americans.

@basilfawlty89 you are so ceaselessly intelligent..i am in awe of you

@foldedunfolding why thank you, but it's just information I know because of good Armenian, Cypriot and Assyrian friends.

@CountScrofula yayy that is good news haha

@Renaci saaaame..prob like once a week for me!!