I am Chinese. Both my grandfathers fought in the War to Resist Japanese Aggression and one went on to fight Americans in the War to Resist American Aggression and Aid Korea. Both are now interred in a cemetery for Martyrs of the Revolution.
But sure, I have American brain worms despite not being an American and never living there. I obviously wouldn't have any reason other than American nationalism to take a dim view of Imperial Japan, right?
And I'm an Algerian, but I don't support Nazi Germany invading Fr*nce, because just like with the U.S. and Japan they didn't do it for us colonized people, in fact they killed us too. The nuking wasn't to make Japan surrender, but just to flex the U.S. power on the soviets and who ever else challenges it, your grandfathers benefited nothing from the U.S. nuking Imperial Japan. The U.S. didn't nuke Japan for your grandfathers.
Continue to lecture someone from another country about how they should feel about their own country and history is the real American brain worms my friend.
I don't pretend to know the complexities of the French occupation and the Algerian struggle for independence, that's why I'm not going to tell you how you should feel or think about it.
We let's have a look at the relevant part of Hirohito's surrender speech to see whether or not the bombs had any impact on his decision to surrender:
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Clear as fucking day right from the man himself.
Even if I do have American brain worms (maybe granddad pick some up from a dead yank in Korea), what you're espousing is just Japanese right wing brain worms. Don't take it from me, take it from a Japanese media scholar:
First of all, the narrative of August journalism can be classified into three categories.
The first is the "narrative of suffering" intended to pass down wartime experiences as "victims" of the atomic bombings, air raids, evacuations, repatriations and other grueling ordeals, and the "sacrifices" soldiers had to make, represented by kamikaze attacks and suicidal battles.
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In such a context, Japan's invasion, atrocities, colonial rule and other forms of "aggression" are completely receded into the background. Instead, its self-image as victims of militarism is brought to the fore.
This view on war and history was formed due to peculiarities of how post-war Japan was handled during the Cold War.
Japan could return to the international community without facing squarely its war responsibility and pursue its economic growth after the emperor was exonerated at the behest of the United States and Western powers waived their right to claim compensation.
It's so frustrating that even Japanese people can acknowledge that this is their version of the Clean Wehrmacht myth specifically designed by Americans to rehabilitate them in a Cold War confrontation with the USSR but you try to tell this to a leftist and it's like talking to a fucking brick wall.
understand me, I'm not telling you "oooh the poor Japanese got nuked this makes all of their crimes okay", I am telling you that the U.S. nuking Japan brought no good and you yourself have made this point yourself, the forgiving imperial Japan thing wouldn't be as popular if the U.S. didn't nuke it, sure the Clean Wehrmacht exist, but there was still a theater of Nazis getting punished, meanwhile the U.S. granted Unit 731 immunity and Hiro Hito died in 1989.
No, look at the passage I cited from the Emperor's surrender address. Tell me exactly what it says.
sure the Clean Wehrmacht exist, but there was still a theater of Nazis getting punished, meanwhile the U.S. granted Unit 731 immunity and Hiro Hito died in 1989.
There was the theatre of the Tokyo War Crimes trials too. Are you seriously this ignorant about the topic and trying to lecture me? The German denazification process was scarcely better than the Japanese process. Von Braun et al was their Unit 731. A bunch of high ranking Nazis got to die of old age too. America can eat shit for letting both the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese off the hook with a slap but Germany didn't get nuked and it was rehabilitated just like Japan. It's almost as if the US was going to rehabilitate both fascist powers anyway, nukes or not.
Nothing you've said justifies the killings of Japanese grandmothers and schoolchildren, which the US was happy to do, to scare the USSR. These were civilian, not military targets.
I am Chinese. Both my grandfathers fought in the War to Resist Japanese Aggression and one went on to fight Americans in the War to Resist American Aggression and Aid Korea. Both are now interred in a cemetery for Martyrs of the Revolution.
But sure, I have American brain worms despite not being an American and never living there. I obviously wouldn't have any reason other than American nationalism to take a dim view of Imperial Japan, right?
And I'm an Algerian, but I don't support Nazi Germany invading Fr*nce, because just like with the U.S. and Japan they didn't do it for us colonized people, in fact they killed us too. The nuking wasn't to make Japan surrender, but just to flex the U.S. power on the soviets and who ever else challenges it, your grandfathers benefited nothing from the U.S. nuking Imperial Japan. The U.S. didn't nuke Japan for your grandfathers.
Continue to lecture someone from another country about how they should feel about their own country and history is the real American brain worms my friend.
I don't pretend to know the complexities of the French occupation and the Algerian struggle for independence, that's why I'm not going to tell you how you should feel or think about it.
The American brain worm is believing that America nuking two Japanese cities was somehow the reason Imperial Japan "Surrendered"
We let's have a look at the relevant part of Hirohito's surrender speech to see whether or not the bombs had any impact on his decision to surrender:
Clear as fucking day right from the man himself.
Even if I do have American brain worms (maybe granddad pick some up from a dead yank in Korea), what you're espousing is just Japanese right wing brain worms. Don't take it from me, take it from a Japanese media scholar:
It's so frustrating that even Japanese people can acknowledge that this is their version of the Clean Wehrmacht myth specifically designed by Americans to rehabilitate them in a Cold War confrontation with the USSR but you try to tell this to a leftist and it's like talking to a fucking brick wall.
understand me, I'm not telling you "oooh the poor Japanese got nuked this makes all of their crimes okay", I am telling you that the U.S. nuking Japan brought no good and you yourself have made this point yourself, the forgiving imperial Japan thing wouldn't be as popular if the U.S. didn't nuke it, sure the Clean Wehrmacht exist, but there was still a theater of Nazis getting punished, meanwhile the U.S. granted Unit 731 immunity and Hiro Hito died in 1989.
No, look at the passage I cited from the Emperor's surrender address. Tell me exactly what it says.
There was the theatre of the Tokyo War Crimes trials too. Are you seriously this ignorant about the topic and trying to lecture me? The German denazification process was scarcely better than the Japanese process. Von Braun et al was their Unit 731. A bunch of high ranking Nazis got to die of old age too. America can eat shit for letting both the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese off the hook with a slap but Germany didn't get nuked and it was rehabilitated just like Japan. It's almost as if the US was going to rehabilitate both fascist powers anyway, nukes or not.
Nothing you've said justifies the killings of Japanese grandmothers and schoolchildren, which the US was happy to do, to scare the USSR. These were civilian, not military targets.