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You mean when Japan bombed us
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Mrs. B. G. Miller, a member of the Hollywood Protective Association, points to an anti-Japanese sign reading 'removed Keep Moving - This is a White Man's Neighborhood', on her house on Tamarind Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, May 1923. Other houses in the street have similar signs and are a response to Japanese Americans buying a property on the street in order to build a Japanese Presbyterian Church.
People in the U.S. always forget Japan bombed Pearl Harbor after the U.S. military set up blockades on their trade routes.
ahh yes... lets peddle apologia for the fucking japanese empire! who cares about unit 731? who cares about theremoved of nanking? who cares about comfort women and the railway of death? who cares about the mass beheadings and cannibalism? who cares about the manilla massacre? who cares about the romusha slaves and the three alls policy? who cares about the weaponization of bubonic plague and other diseases? about unit 8604? unit ei 1644? after all, why should we care about the massacres at laha airfield, or on bongka island or in calamba, in zhejiang and jiangxi provinces or the selarang square incident? the sook ching? the pit of ten thousand people? why should we care about unit 100, or the hanaoka water canal, the hell ships, or the kempeitai, or the mass infanticide, or the pig-basket executions, or the life vivisection of moro rebels, or the 99% death rate among chinese povs?....
after all, this technicality proves thst the allies were bad, actually!
anybody who upvoted that shit should be permabanned imho.
I don't think pointing out that it was in inter imperial conflict with provocations on both sides and that it didn't just materialize with the Japanese bombing pearl harbor for no real reason at all is in itself a defense of literally any of that, especially when the U.S. was also doing absolutely heinous and racist crimes against humanity both at the time and after winning the war
Like if you wanna say this is imperial japanese apologia, people could use the same logic to accuse you of u.s. apologia because even if you argue the U.S. only embargoed in responsec to Japan's crimes in manchuria and china you're supporting the idea that WWII was a good v evil conflict and the U.S. was good and entirely motivated by wanting to stop those crimes, which i'm pretty sure you know wasn't the case
Ok go off about how you don't care about facts i guess cool story
You are literally doing that when you pretend the u.s. was just chugging along, got attacked for no reason and then entered the war. It's the same sort of U.S. GOOD GUY propaganda that has the entire west forgetting the USSR did all the work winning the war
Not teaching about the embargo is literally current, present day U.S. fascist propaganda. You don't think it helps build the nationalist myth of america being the good guys to have children taught WW2 started this way? Lol, ok.
They don't even teach about U.S.- Japanese interactions prior to Pearl harbor in U.S. public schools, the guy above said "people forget" but no it's literally not even mentioned. I went to a "good" public school and took college classes all through high school and the oil embargo or conditions leading up to it weren't mentioned once. My partner has a degree in political science and again, her education never mentioned it.
But yeah im sure it's a good thing for the present fascist world hegemonto teach its populace that they were the lil smol bean attacked by those evil Japanese for no reason, go off on how much you agree with that while you talk about the WeStErN LeFt
Also going "you should literally ignore everything prior to pearl harbor" isn't revisionist? lol, lmfao, my ass is laughed off
the power to put words in your opponents mouth that they never said remains unbeatable.
person: yeah but they bombed pearl harbor after the oil embargo and everyone forgets that
You: OMG IMPERIAL JAPANESE PROPAGANDA YOU'RE ACTUALLY DEFENDING EVERY WAR CRIME THE JAPANESE DID WHEN YOU MENTION THE OIL EMBARGO <<< this was your literal response
Just shut the fuck up nerd i think you're going to hurt yourself if you try too hard to make a coherent argument with all the nonsense in your head
aaaaaaaaaaaaaand concern trolling. libs are the same every time.
Cool story
I edited a response, lick my balls liberal
Cool story keep stanning the us as the Good Guys of WW2 while you pretend to be a communist while you tell people to ignore history while you tell them they're revisionists for not
Cool story keep stanning the us as the Good Guys of WW2 while you pretend to be a communist while you tell people to ignore history while you tell them they're revisionists for not
Why would that be irrelevant to WW2 in particular? Genuinely confused by this statement.
Baffling.
I'm surprised this person didn't crash out in the same way over discussion of Russia/Ukraine, which also has ....context....
Never said Japan was good and the U.S. was bad. You could look at any country throughout history and find issues, like the U.S. commiting genocide against the native people who were living there.
The public school system in the U.S. relies heavily in books that are used in Texas. Texas buys a lot of books, book publishers aren't going to supply a different book for every state, so when WW2 is taught, it's taught as the Japanese just attacking the U.S. with no backstory. A lot of people go to public school, and don't learn any additional history, and then as adults, still wrongly think Japan bombed the U.S. with no prior action from the U.S.
Also, what's the deal with a US military base being way out in the Pacific like that? Nothing else to know about that, I'm sure.