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Would be fine if they chose some other name like “Ararat” etc. instead of trying to hijack local politics to low key make the city take a position on a foreign territorial dispute.
You do realize the irony of what you just wrote I hope.
Comment by bokavitch at 06/10/2018 at 12:14 UTC
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Ararat is the English name for the mountain too. It has significance well beyond the Armenian community and there is no active territorial conflict happening there. There’s nothing inherently political about the word itself. It isn’t a word that was resurrected purely to be used to push a particular political narrative.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s good Armenians use “Artsakh”, I just think it’s a clearly loaded term and I don’t think it’s good to hijack municipal governments for our own parochial politics.