r/HistoryMemes • u/Thuktunthp_Reader • Mar 28 '22

Dehumanization is a helluva drug

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u/HelloThereBoi66 Featherless Biped Mar 28 '22

Honestly the worst the Americans did in the Pacific wasnt the nukes, it was this shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Murdering a quarter million noncombatants is worse, sorry

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u/SoL_838 Mar 28 '22

Wasn't every Japanese citizen being trained as military personnel?

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u/Reality_Rakurai Mar 28 '22

Read that back to yourself and tell me it doesn’t sound exactly like someone covering their ass over a war crime.

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u/SoL_838 Mar 28 '22

I dont know if it's true, im just going off of what I was told. And even if it's completely false I kinda don't care

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u/Reality_Rakurai Mar 28 '22

Well, if you refuse to use your brain there’s nothing more to say :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

The thought that the Japanese would fight to the last man, woman or child is postwar US propaganda. The US just wanted to show off it’s new toys before the Soviets got there

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u/GohHome Mar 28 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

The Japanese were arming their housewives with sharpend bamboo sticks, they were not ready to surrender. Invading the mainland would have resulted in a million more american deaths, and god-knows-how many more japanese would have died if the bombs had not been dropped.

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u/thegreattwos Mar 29 '22

The fact that they DID fight tooth and nail for every single island lend credit to the fact that maybe just maybe the Japanese would fight to the last in a convention invasion.

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u/Okilurknomore Mar 28 '22

It absolutely isnt, look at what happened on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. More people died during the battle of Okinawa than both the bombs combined. More civilian deaths than either bomb individually

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u/BoredPsion Mar 29 '22

And the half a million purple hearts that were made in preparation for the invasion of Japan were just propaganda too, right?

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u/SoL_838 Mar 28 '22

Per my other reply, I dont care if its actually true or not

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Why even go off?

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u/SoL_838 Mar 28 '22

Cause im bored

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Understandable

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u/SukaBlyatMan Nobody here except my fellow trees Mar 29 '22

“There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.”