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yes "america bad" is a valid political stance

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[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The Japanese were arguably worse than the Nazis

Many things they did were problematic, but I don’t remember Japan doing a Holocaust

Edit: Thanks for the info, comrades.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Japan still was commiting genocide during the war. We absolutely shouldn’t downplay Japanese war crimes but we also shouldn’t compare the two as it leads nowhere productive

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Japan still was commiting genocide during the war

They definitely committed war crimes and I don’t mean to downplay this. Was this genocide though?

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20070614140107/http://yale.edu/gsp/publications/WaiKeng.doc

The [Axis] Occupation of Singapore from February 1942 to August 1945 was a particularly momentous period of loss and sacrifice for the Chinese population as compared to other ethnicities, because they were the targets of brutal [Imperial] military policies. During a month of screening procedures and indiscriminate massacres in 1942 known as sook ching, or cleansing operations, an undetermined number of civilians were separated from their families and friends and suffered uncertain fates. In many cases, the last time relatives saw loved ones was at a screening center before the unlucky victims were driven away in trucks to unknown destinations.

[–] Buchenstr@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

it was definitely genocide, what we're criticising is the war crimes committed by the americans.

[–] NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

What about the invasion of mainland China? Rape of Nanking? What about the vivisection of living test subjects? Manchurian testing?

They may not have done a holocaust, but they did a lot worse shit in other areas. The medical testing was the worst to learn about. The worst thing is they got away with it, not admitting to any of it until later. Japanese leadership completely skirted any type of Nuremberg-type consequences.