Sancar could easily have quoted Wilde without even mentioning his name. I am using this term in the sense of "racism," "sexism" and all those other horrid isms. Then when another person asked who Oscar Wilde was Sancar said there was no time for a lecture, but he would be willing to inform people later. He stated that he wanted to quote from Oscar Wilde. He apologized beforehand - that is he made sure that everyone was going to listen to him, to take notice that he was quoting someone. However, what is odder still is that Mithat Sancar, the HDP member of parliament who quoted Wilde, felt the need to preface it. It is highly possible that I do not know every quip the wit made. At first, I found it only slightly odd that I had never heard this quote from Oscar Wilde. Well, not until I sat and thought about it. The quote that was so puzzlingly delivered during the debate on lifting the immunities for members of parliament was: "I can oppose vulgar power, but I can't stand vulgar reasoning. I am familiar with many of his more famous quotes. Wilde was famous for his "one-liners," his quips and witty comments. Although born in Ireland in 1854, Wilde is a person who commented on and recorded the goings on in London society at the end of the century.Īfter being educated at Oxford, Wilde then joined fashionable London society it is for this reason that Wilde is more often perceived as British rather than Irish. Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) as an author and wit, is a very British institution. Indeed, it would have been something that would have greatly displeased Wilde, who abhorred any kind of airs or snobbery.Īnd how odd that the quote was one that I was unfamiliar with.Īnd how odd that this incident made it into international papers. To quote this man, who although Irish, is quintessentially British, smacks of showing off, and not in a very intelligent way. The Irish playwright, author and wit is not someone well-known in Turkey. There is another odd aspect to this debate. Yes, some of his comments did have political overtones, but mostly he was going for the jugular of British society. Oscar Wilde was never a political commentator. The committee was debating the lifting of the over-reaching immunities enjoyed by members of parliament at the present time. I find it rather odd that a Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentarian threw out a quote from Oscar Wilde during a debate in a parliamentarian committee.
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