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calmly explained how there was no rational benefit to committing a massacre
that doesn't mean it didn't happen, it makes it even worse that it did happen
So is there ever a rational benefit
The replies from other Japanese are so depressing. They really are cooked.
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And yet people, including here, fawn over the place. Disgusting.
i went there last year.. it was an amazing place to see. I enjoyed it far more than I ever imagined I would and way more than any of the european countries we went to before that.
that doesn't mean i think they're angels or that they didn't commit atrocities and that a fair number of the japanese people aren't fucked in the head.
Soft power goes a long way. Same way most of the major NATO countries are still glamorized more than they should be.
The weebs here have been known to do awful apologetics to sanitize media exports that they like (or don't even know but they're just illiterate), but I don't know of them doing apologetics for Japanese society itself.
Look in our training manuals it says this is bad. Therefore it couldn't have happened!
Just like Americans are trained on the Geneva Conventions, but they seem to officially not give a flying fuck about formal rules and agreements.
tfw your parents blindly and desperately try to justify and explain away atrocities
This must be what is like to *live in the South in the US
Not just the South
genuinely yes
I'm so sorry if that's something you are or had to in the past experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_academy behold. some of these things still operate btw.
Ah well if there was no rational benefit to committing that massacre then surely it didn't happen! Irrationality has no place in war!
It's not even accurate to say it's irrational. [CW: SV, torture, racism] China Mieville explains in his essay "On Social Sadism" how extravagant cruelty serves to uphold hierarchical power structures:
Class rule necessitates violence and its contested, overlapping, jostling ideologies. It justifies, or more, Orgreave in 1984, the armed wing of the state laying down manners on insurgent workers. It insists that waterboarding is not torture and anyway it defends our freedoms. It explains the necessity of the spikes carefully fitted at the bases of new buildings to ensure the homeless can’t sleep there. Rising unevenly from a fundamental necessity to capital – oppression – are brutalities necessary to sustain class rule at home; to sustain imperialism abroad; everyday sadisms so metabolised their cruelties often hide in plain sight.
The drives to such phenomena are hazy-edged, non-identical but inextricable, imbricated, mutually constituting. They’re constant but not static. The parameters and place of violence, repression and sadism change with history. And with them, from the rush of jouissance they tap, inevitably flows their excess – a scandalous, invested sadism, enjoying its own cruelty. A surplus sadism.
Fucking hell, at least the Krauts acknowledge their own crimes even if they mostly use them to whitewash Israel's current crimes
Also 
at this guy going PLEASE PRESENT ME THE EVIDENCE FOR MASS KILLINGS at Chinese people schooling his ass in the replies
You also have some Japanese dude going "but muh cultural revolution" and "but muh tiny man square" 
I think I'm just gonna close this tab 
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so true bestie, all those photos of japanese soldiers
were just AI, clearly.cw: war crimes
bayonetting babies for fun and burying people alive after forcing them to dig their own graves
One Chinese officer did a bad thing, that absolves the entire Japanese army of wrongdoing.
Daily reminder that Japan didn't even have an analog to the ~~half~~ ~~quarter~~ eighth-assed denazification that Germany did
i'd call that about a third assed
Neither did Italy, and of course none of the Allies.
It seemed to work pretty well for Germany until it didn't: apparently 80 years of remembrance culture is all that was possible.
Yeah, but even in places like Italy the fascist governments didn't remain fully intact. If you look at Japan's prime ministers since ww2 almost all of them were either war criminals or the children of war criminals.
the new york times would never lie after all
"In this house,Nobusuke Kishi is a hero,end of story!"
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