"Defend" is a little strong, but there's certainly romanticization and a lot of fake nuance. People like this will admit atrocities happened, but they'll try to spin it as "they were just following orders," "it's hard to tell right from wrong in wartime," and a million variations of "they weren't criminals, they were brave soldiers who believed in their Emperor." You'll never see this kind of nuance applied to the actions of communist governments.
In the US, some of this is obviously guilt over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it very quickly veers off into the dumbest kind of orientalism.
I haven't been on that sub in a very long time -- not since around the r/genzedong migration -- and I get the sense it was a lot better then. So no, I've never seen it there. But I've run into it elsewhere on the net, and a couple times in real life.
"Defend" is a little strong, but there's certainly romanticization and a lot of fake nuance. People like this will admit atrocities happened, but they'll try to spin it as "they were just following orders," "it's hard to tell right from wrong in wartime," and a million variations of "they weren't criminals, they were brave soldiers who believed in their Emperor." You'll never see this kind of nuance applied to the actions of communist governments.
In the US, some of this is obviously guilt over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it very quickly veers off into the dumbest kind of orientalism.
Does this really happen on SLS?
I haven't been on that sub in a very long time -- not since around the r/genzedong migration -- and I get the sense it was a lot better then. So no, I've never seen it there. But I've run into it elsewhere on the net, and a couple times in real life.