The Japanese civilian population had been indoctrinated into the belief that western soldiers were absolute monsters who would carry out unspeakable acts on them
We nuked them twice after carrying out a campaign of what we cozily referred to as “moral bombing”, where we targeted civilian populations to kill the families of soldiers.
We ARE absolute monsters.
I think he’s Mexican-American. Also, apparently able to correctly come to the moral conclusion for American war crimes during WW2, but not for Nazi war crimes.
I knew I’d seen him refer to America as “we”, so I had a quick look through his recent posts.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51285538/20770587
_cryptagion [he/him]
I think he’s Mexican-American. Also, apparently able to correctly come to the moral conclusion for American war crimes during WW2, but not for Nazi war crimes.