Kim Kardashian’s letter to the people who refuse to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, the systematic killing done by the Ottoman Empire shortly before and after World War I, landed a full-page ad on The New York Times. The ad space was bought by The Armenian Educational Foundation.
Kim and her family have been very vocal advocates to bring light on the gruesome issue, as the Kardashians find their bloodline in Armenia. The letter was first released via her app in light of the The Wall Street Journal granting Fact Check Armenia, a group who deny the genocide, an ad in their publication. “Advocating the denial of the genocide by the country responsible for it―that’s not publishing a ‘provocative viewpoint’―that’s spreading lies,” Kim writes. It comes in context to the WSJ defending publishing the ad to present different opinions on the matter.
Kim's epic post where she called out Armenian Genocide denial was printed by the NYtimes!!! Proud @KimKardashian 💛✊🏼 pic.twitter.com/PrarlgPKdA
— FELIPE (@felipemnzp) September 18, 2016
The reality TV star acknowledged the ad by retweeting a photo of it. The letter is still up on her app and the fight to properly give justice to the victims of the genocide―one of the first of its scale and second only to the Holocaust―still continues.
[Vanity Fair]
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