Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "Japan's rising right-wing nationalism" video.

  1.  @rembrantwithagrenade171  Due you have a single fact to back that up? Churchill cut off aid to the Bengalese, but what proof do you have he started the famine?
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  2. Many commenters are still trying to twist this conversation against 'old white men.'
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  3. Somehow, 3 million dead German civilians (mostly at the hands of the Soviets) doesn't allow Germany to victimize themselves, though.
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  4. Nanking is small potatoes compared to Japan's whole record. 10 million non-combatants were killed by Japanese forces in China. And the nuclear bombs were for the purpose of getting Japan to surrender. The Japanese Emperor himself said "the enemy now possesses a new and terrible weapon, with the power to destroy many innocent lives and do incalculable damage. Should we continue to fight it would not only result in the collapse of the Japanese nation but also the total extinction of human civilization. This is the reason why we have ordered the acceptance of the Joint Declarations of Powers." Battle plan "Ketsu Go", in the words of the Emperor himself on June 8th 1945, less than a month before the first atomic bomb was dropped, demanded Japan choose "extinction rather than surrender." 32 million civilians were being trained in the use of primitive weapons to fight off an American invasion.
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  5. No he didn't, he simply stopped providing aid to the Bengalese. If not providing aid = killing people, then your country is surely responsible for millions of deaths as well. Also, that number is still dwarfed by the 10 million non-combatants the Japanese killed in China.
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  6. That's a little low...the atomic bombs were a tragic necessity, not an act of justice.
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  7. I agree with nationalism, but I don't agree with them being willfully blind about their own history.
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  8. Erm, pretty sure Vox has about a hundred videos criticizing America.
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  9. It's not there because it never happened (90% of American Indians were killed by disease before the US was even a country), yet people still believe it happened. Shows how much anti-Americanism skews global thought.
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  10. They should own up to their mistakes, but they shouldn't pay anyone a cent. What has the Muslim world ever paid Europe for a millenia of invasions, enslavement, and piracy? What has Mongolia ever paid the world for Ghengis Khan? What have the Comanches ever paid the Plains Indians? What have the British ever paid the Irish? Etc. etc.
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  11.  @joseluiszambrano  That was the British in the mid-1770s, but historians estimate 90% of Natives were dead from diseased by 1650. There's no evidence the smallpox blanket tactic even worked.
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  12. Not in the slightest. Half our history classes are devoted to talking about slavery. I'm sure most people who upvoted you aren't even America.
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  13.  @mister_grizzlee5105  The Irish stole their land from the Pics.
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  14. Agreed, but wanting Japan to acknowledge its war crimes is not the same as hating Japan.
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  15. Uh...yes, they are.
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  16. You love when its the other way around.
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  17.  @GeniusLad32  I was talking to the OP.
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  18.  @oskarelysee9076  The Japanese aren't proud of genocidal actions, they just pretend they didn't happen.
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  19.  @ndhehgftsiiw945  Maybe because it was small potatoes compared to the 10 million other non-combatants Japan killed in Manchuria?
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  20. Everybody and their dog has heard of America's war crimes. More people know about Hiroshima and Nagaski than the 2.7 million German civilians killed by the Soviets. More than 10X the death toll, but not even 10% as well know. That's how entrenched anti-Americanism is in the world's understanding of history.
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  21. America killed 200,000 people in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese killed 16 million non-combatants in Manchuria alone. Yet somehow everyone and their dog knows about the atomic bombings of Japan but only a minority of people know about Japanese war crimes.
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  22. No one is saying you should apologize, just stop pretending they didn't happen, because its unfair to the people who DO own up to their nation's history.
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  23. Everybody and their dogs knows about slavery and the atomic bombings of Japan, and no one denies either of those things happened.
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  24. "European should understand" writes this crucial information in Japanese
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  25. Yeah, 90% of politicians are men, therefore most political problems have men behind them. Imagine that.
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  26. Germans are white.
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  27.  @geu38je97  Vox isn't hiding comments. Vox does not make those decisions. Youtube's 'spam filter' often hides comments with links. Just google "Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II" and you can see a civilians killed in each country. 20 million Chinese were killed in WWII, more than 80% of them were civilians.
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  28. The video says that the textbooks are pedaling the notion that Imperial Japan did nothing wrong, that's why they are talking about it.
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  29. Alt-right: I hate white guilt! Vox: Some people who weren't white did some horrible things. Maybe white people aren't born with a unique genetic predisposition to evil. Alt-right: WHAT!? Silence! Don't you dare speak of that! Leave those people alone!
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  30. They shouldn't have to apologize, but they should stop trying to cover up the truth.
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  31. I knew about the Holocaust when I was 4. Never knew the Japanese committed an WWII atrocities until I was in High School. Explain that to me.
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  32. "The good guys" don't always win. We're told the white settlers were "the bad guys" when they defeated the American Indians for one.
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  33. Lol yeah because no one in America knows their country nuked Japan, right?
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  34. I knew about the Holocaust since I was 4. Never heard about any Japanese WWII atrocities until I took a World Studies class in High School.
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  35. The Ainu would say otherwise.
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  36. The only reason people are so insistent on denying Japan's WWII atrocities it because it blows a huge hole in the "white people are responsible for all evil in history" that regressive leftism is based on.
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  37. The Japanese killed 16 million non-combatants in Manchuria alone.
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  38. Most people who deny Japanese atrocities during WWII don't even care about Japan, they just see a threat to the narrative that only white people are capable of evil.
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  39.  @oq7wu317  What constitutes historical evidence to you? Pictures? There are plenty of those. Academic sources? Plenty of those too. Whatever your standard of proof is, I'm sure its much much much greater than what you demand when white countries are accused of committing atrocities.
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  40.  @ndhehgftsiiw945  No, I don't remember you. Not at all.
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  41.  @ndhehgftsiiw945  Google's so called "spam filter" blocked me for posting a link. Just google these words "Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II". Turns out I WAS wrong. It was 16 million Chinese non-combatants killed.
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  42.  @ndhehgftsiiw945  What?
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  43. Which we don't do. Half our history class is about slavery.
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  44. That's because the left has a "No True Scotsman" policy about racism. If you point out that the Democrats were the party behind institutional racism in the US up until the 1968 Civil Rights acts, they will claim the parties flipped, even though that would mean Joseph McArthy was a liberal and FDR was a conservative.
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  45. Germany is not thousands of years old, it's less than 150 years old. And they've been the crown jewel of Europe since the end of WWII.
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  46. That's sad.
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  47. Because foreigners never judge America right?
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  48. Besides, focusing only are you own country's problems always ends up with people believing their country is uniquely evil and needs to be destroyed. I saw how viciously people leveraged American ignorance about the rest of the world to convince us to hate ourselves back in the golden age of anti-Americanism.
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  49. As long as they don't boast about the Holocaust part...
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  50. Yes. Most people grow up thinking colonialism and imperialism were just "white" things in fact.
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  51.  @dainironfoot5198  Mine didn't.
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  52. It may well be the best, but that doesn't mean its perfect.
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  53.  @Yuan-lo3zz  When?
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  54. That's disgusting. This is nothing like WWII.
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  55. They shouldn't apologize, just stop distorting history. How would Japan feel if it were reversed and they were owning up to the atrocities they committed while Germany was refusing?
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  56. The problem is, how do you define Japanese? The Japanese refer to even people born and raised in Japan as "non-Japanese" if they have the wrong bloodline, which would be unthinkable in America.
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  57.  @樫野崎灯台  Or the Genocide of the Dzunghar.
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  58. Go 状態な気が yourself.
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  59. 3 million were starved during the Bengal famine. The Japanese killed 20 million people (4/5 were civilians) in Manchuria alone.
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  60. America never admitted to slavery? We spend half our history class talking about that.
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  61.  @macroniinthepot7527  You obviously aren't American.
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  62.  @macroniinthepot7527  So how do you know America doesn't admit its crimes?
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  63. I knew about Dresden at least since High School, when we were assigned to read Slaughter House Five. I would have never known about Japan's war crimes if I hadn't taken a World Studies course.
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  64. America acknowledges our war crimes. Slaughter House Five, centered around the fire bombing of Dresden, was required reading in my High School English class. Abu Griabh (sp?) was a front page story for 44 straight days in the New York Times. Etc.
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  65. That's a disgusting thing to say.
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