Not a new revelation, but the article pulls from good sources and it's nice to see this myth repudiated in a mainstream outlet.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    And, as Dan Carlin explains, the Japanese have only themselves to blame for the perceptions of their people about Americans and the perspectives of Americans about them.

    The gratuity of dropping the bombs has very little to do with what you mention and much more to do with trying to minimize the influence of the Soviet Union. Rhetoric about "sparing lives" is vile historical revisionism.

    Also the phrasing of "the Japanese" being at fault and not their fascist government and its supporters is, uh, not a good look, but that's a tangential point.

    • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Also the phrasing of "the Japanese" being at fault and not their fascist government and its supporters

      This is an excellent thing to point out, and that was not the message I had hoped to convey. I was specifically referencing the Japanese government, not the general population of Japan. Thank you for pointing that out, and my apologies for not being more clear