My country would never commit serious war crimes but they’d teach us about it if they did.
We have movies about how sad it made our soldiers when they were doing war crimes, its proof of democracy and not brainwashing
We also have YouTubers to remind everyone we’re NOT sorry! And then also get mad at ‘wokeness’ because how dare we not be forgiven for what we’re not even sorry for!
Yeah, can’t forget the people who think the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket is badass
major payne was way cooler
Sleeping with your eyes open is S-tier
Compared to the non-Willem defoe sergeant in platoon he’s a saint
Tom Berenger as sergeant Barnes
The Japanese accidentally landed in China and they gave them corn and everybody hugged
Anyone who points out American troops carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan is immediately met with accusations of hating America and being a terrorist.
All Americans my age know every word to the song “God Bless the USA”, they would have kids sing it at an assembly at least once a year. At my school they would play it at the assembly for MLK day when they told us that MLK had his March on Washington and fixed racism forever with the help of his good Christian wisdom. This was in probably the most progressive/secular level of public school you could get.
I’m reading Bix’s biography of Hirohito rn and wow it’d be one thing if only he himself, the imperial family and the conservative ruling elite got away scot-free, that fact that the people themselves barely needed to reckon with their history is even more egregious
A lot of people around the world are squirming when they see this.
We do want them to feel ashamed of their actions. They clearly are.
Our war criminals are ashamed? Or have I misinterpreted
The Japanese seem to be ashamed of their actions in Nanjing. To me that’s half the battle. Now they need to own it and vow to never let it happen again.
To be clear, this post is more a satirical jab at how Japan is often criticised for their national attitude towards their WWII war crimes (in contrast to postwar Germanys attitudes) while the victors similarly fail to educate their citizens on their own major war crimes and atrocities.
Ours in the US are just afraid of having a tarnished reputation, I doubt most of the higher level perpretrators feel anything for those they’ve slaughtered, because they see them as lesser humans, like animals.
