A State Senator has made references to now the Nazi party came to power through legitimate elections and what it lead to. In res...

A State Senator has made references to now the Nazi party came to power through legitimate elections and what it lead to. In response, a nice lady commented by saying, "In 1923, Adolf Hitler led a failed coup. He was treated leniently. Germany moved on. A decade later, he was dictator, and the worst disaster in the history of the civilized world ensued." With that being said, here's another reminder that Japanese atrocities during the same period were objectively, quantifiably worse. They just don’t get the same credit in the “West” And they committed their atrocities out of the same sort of ethnocentrism that the Germans were motivated by at the time too. The scale and level of industrialization of the "Comfort System" for starters. The level of "cleansing" from a land area and pure numbers standpoint. The comparable levels of barbarous brutality employed in most cases. By virtually every metric, the Japanese "win" this one. It just isn't something that "western scholars" focus on and it is a topic that lacks squeaky wheels wanting to be perpetually oiled in the years since (and thus there's not catchy branding campaign to go along with said "oil wanting"). When the Japanese dehumanized the people of certain areas they occupied to the point of the women being unworthy of being raped - even with the soldier's bayonets - and because doing so would be akin to bestiality to them, well...yeah, Nazis (I mean GERMAN SOLDIERS) didn't even go there. They were truly the pigs of the "Animal Farm" of Asia. Hell, in return, the atrocities that allied forces led by great men like MacArthur, Nimitz and Halsey heaped upon the Japanese of a level that we never would have considered using against the Germans, even though the War in Europe (or "Western Civilization's Civil War" as Dr. Samuel Huntington would say) would have been concluded sooner. Of course, we don't generally think that we did anything particularly "atrocious", but since WE won and WE wrote the books afterward. It isn't even a matter of all being fair in war, it is an acknowledgement that "fair" not only is irrelevant to war, but it is, ultimately, a weakness in war. Hostilities in the European Theater lasted much longer than they needed too due to an unwillingness to "skip to the end" that was less present in the pacific. (Feed generated with FetchRSS) January 10, 2021 at 11:18AM - E Pluribus OTAP

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