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[benchilada]

THINGS THEY DON'T TEACH US IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS:

The actual anniversary was yesterday.

65 years ago the United States committed a war crime against Japan by firebombing ordinary citizens in Tokyo.

100,000 civilians died by explosion and fire, the largest number from any attack during the entirety of the war.

I wish I could be surprised that war

Comments

[radiumhead]

So? We also nuked 2 of their cities, I've heard. What's your point?

[benchilada]

Seriously?

[radiumhead]

Well, yeah.

If we hadn't nuked them first, twice, maybe I wouldve been suprised.

[benchilada]

I don't think I'm totally following. Are you just saying that you're not surprised, or that it doesn't seem significant to you?

I guess I'm fascinated by the fact that only one person I've spoken to about this in the past two days had even heard about it.

We always talk about the Holocaust, the slaughters by Stalin, sometimes we hear about how Mao killed more than either Hitler or Stalin, but we never hear about attacks we did simply to kill 100,000 civilians.

[radiumhead]

I guess it's significant in that yeah, it's never mentioned. But I think that's because of the same reason that it doesn't seem to make an impression on me: that it's been completely overshadowed by the two atomic bombs we dropped.

Honestly I'm just kinda like, "so what?" that's my gut reaction.

But I'm jaded, and evil.