I am not on HN to confront warcrimes denialism from foreign extremists, so this is about the extent that I am going to go.
>>At the time periods in question, de-facto segregation was still the norm across the entire U.S. and yet you're implying we were some sort of beacon of morality and human rights. Hell, the U.S. was performing horrific human experimentation before and _after_ the war.
No where near comparable to the horrors of what Japan was doing and not even close to relevant to this thread. This is pure whataboutism from a denialist.
The axis powers were not the same as the allies in some "weird and wacky" grey morality.
>>This part is just straight up racism.
No. Describing fascist cultures engaged in genocidal wars of extermination against the whole world as "diseased" during that time period is being polite and succinct. Maybe your view is that such a culture was healthy at the time? Tell us.
>>You're either a troll or you truly have bought into the entire breadth of American Propaganda.
I have seen the horrors of fascist Japan first hand. I have seen the devices and torture chambers they built. I have lived in Nanjing and heard the air raid sirens with my own ears.
I, for one, am not an ignorant denialist that wants to pretend none of this ever happened. Fascist Japan had a problem back home that needed fixing. America fixed it.
Like it or not, the civillian bombings of Japan were absolutely necessary.
Japan was a very sick and diseased nation and culture at the time. They had made a national, media broadcasted sport of beheading children. They had turned deadly human experimentation into science. They had waged wars of aggression on all of their neighbors, no matter how distant.
They brought their cultural disease to American shores and attacked my family. All of their civillian science and industry and culture brought about the war machine that came to American shores to murder us in a time of peace, on a continent far away from their own.
The bombings of Japan should stand as a warning to all nations and cultures for all generations. If your culture gets sick with that totalitarian ideology, it is a lot better if you fix it at home on your own terms than if you bring it to our shores and make us fix it for you.
You can all enjoy the peaceful world that resulted from American sacrifice, and posturing after WW2. Criticize us however you like, you have that right and luxury regardless of where you live.
Regardless, you would be wise to learn this one lesson from history: Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.
Germany and Japan learned that lesson the hard way and they deserved every thing they got in response.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest_to_kill_100_people_usi...
I am not on HN to confront warcrimes denialism from foreign extremists, so this is about the extent that I am going to go.
>>At the time periods in question, de-facto segregation was still the norm across the entire U.S. and yet you're implying we were some sort of beacon of morality and human rights. Hell, the U.S. was performing horrific human experimentation before and _after_ the war.
No where near comparable to the horrors of what Japan was doing and not even close to relevant to this thread. This is pure whataboutism from a denialist.
The axis powers were not the same as the allies in some "weird and wacky" grey morality.
>>This part is just straight up racism.
No. Describing fascist cultures engaged in genocidal wars of extermination against the whole world as "diseased" during that time period is being polite and succinct. Maybe your view is that such a culture was healthy at the time? Tell us.
>>You're either a troll or you truly have bought into the entire breadth of American Propaganda.
I have seen the horrors of fascist Japan first hand. I have seen the devices and torture chambers they built. I have lived in Nanjing and heard the air raid sirens with my own ears.
I, for one, am not an ignorant denialist that wants to pretend none of this ever happened. Fascist Japan had a problem back home that needed fixing. America fixed it.