[OOC post / apology]
[ooc] sorry for disappearing for the last three days. will make up for it soon. I only had an hour's sleep last night, so gotta sleep off the tiredness. OTL
In the meantime, the reason i stayed up
Does Japan deserve sympathy? Discuss...?
In the meantime, the reason i stayed up
Does Japan deserve sympathy? Discuss...?
I pretty much decided that the main perpetrator (childings? Something like that), wasn't really worth anyone's time. This is the second time he's started a mindless wank in as many tries, and his judgmental attitude and blatant disregard for anyone else's opinion is just eye-roll inducing (yes, yes, we are all just ignorant fangulls in it for the pretty bois making out; God knows you can't get that kind of rare material anywhere else).
As for the comments about how Japan shouldn't be forgiven, I think his hypocrisy was just astounding, and at the very least discrediting. Was Japan out of control, and doing extremely horrible things? Yes. Did they need to be stopped? Yes. Does that mean that innocent Japanese civilians deserved to suffer like they have since then? Hell no. I mean, we can argue until we're blue in the face about whether the US used excessive force or not in dropping the atom bomb, but the idea that we shouldn't have any sympathy for the people who were massacred as a result? No. Just...no.
Lastly, when it comes to taking WWII too lightly? Last night, I was surfing YouTube and found a clip wherein a grade school Hitler took over the desks of the other grade school kids from other nations. If that is acceptable enough that it ends up on cable TV (and I'm not saying it shouldn't be; like Prussia said, nothing should be off limits), a comic about nations interacting with each other that just happens to involve WWII in some form should be just fine, too.
*fall over* Ah, me. Coming over and ranting on the journal of someone who barely knows me! I hope you don't mind.
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It's fine, I left this here so people could rant if they wanted to, after all. The comment was pretty rage-inducing, and I couldn't help myself - I wanted to share just how varied and hypocritical peoples' views could be when it comes to Hetalia and world war two in general. No, the person wasn't really worth the time, (and I couldn't care less what other people wanted to think about the Hetalia fandom,) but people having views like that in general sickens me; they're entitled to believe we're all in it for the BL if they want, they can see us all as having no respect for history, but those hypocritical morals? I don't know...
Stuff like grade school Hitler is probably going to continue being an iffy subject, as well as stuff like Hetalia, for the simple fact that it includes WW2. People take things in different ways, and the past atrocities of that period will always be one of the topics that people get heated up about. Yes people died, and I'm sure no one is forgetting that, but getting so heated because of a simple, actually rather tactful webcomic when there are so many more things that are being deliberately offensive? mmh. It remains that history is history, and if we can't move on from the past, our grudges and taboos will just build and build. We shouldn't forget, but if we take things too seriously, we will never be able to separate the blame from the people who are blameless. People forget that there are individuals sometimes, and lump them into groups - "germans", "japanese", "american"... and blaming an entire nation, its people and its future generations for its past crimes is unfair, as is glorifying an entire nation without taking into account its current state...
There's a delicate balance between remembering and not sympathizing... we can't always completely forgive and we shouldn't necessarily forget, but we shouldn't ever trivialize human life, whichever side those lives were on.
And no, don't worry~ um, please go ahead and rant as much as you like! I don't mind at all. ^^'
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That seemed to be the overwhelming problem, there. Basically, the guys who were being the most insulting just seemed to really like putting people in groups and judging them all based on one specific perception. Not the best way to go about things, that's for sure.
(Also, friending! Yay!)
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