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evilcoc0nut January 31 2012, 19:07:59 UTC
This is par for the course as far as Western filmmaking goes. Holocaust films aside, there is definitely a trend in liberal media to give so-called human nuances to a force that most people would simply call "evil". In fact, the self-styled thinkier sources like to pretend that 100% evil doesn't exist. So I definitely do not blame the film for painting the Japanese soldiers as pure evil and if that's the only attack these people can come up with, it's ridiculous and definitely smacks of bias.

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marina_bonomi January 31 2012, 19:09:30 UTC
>Suppose, when discussing Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews, western media reports were to say: “Yes, the Jewish people suffered a great deal during World War II, but Israel has also occupied Palestinian territories and killed innocent Palestinian civilians.” They would cause public outrage and may even be accused of trying to make excuses for the Holocaust.<

While I agree with the article on the whole, I'd also point out that statements similar to the one quoted have been published on more than one western newspaper in various occasions and, well there wasn't that much 'public outrage' either. :(

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siutou_amy January 31 2012, 19:52:01 UTC
Congrats, CFensi for being the central source of this WSJ article ;)

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bluemonkey87 January 31 2012, 20:19:54 UTC
Guess western media will never stop alluding to the red herring that is the communist government. Funny really, Chairman Mao actually thanked the visiting Japanese ambassador for invading China back in the day otherwise the communist party would never have had the chance to come to power. So if we're playing the blame game. All the deaths and famines caused by CCP would have never happened if not for the Japanese? Sigh.

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bravelioness January 31 2012, 22:01:03 UTC
Wow. This freaking pisses me off. And I think I have a right to say that, as someone who loves both China and Japan. Regardless of how "awesome" Japan is now, it did some pretty crappy things in WWII. Nanking was a big deal. Frigging Western idiots. -_-

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