“It is real annoying when people start trying to read between the lines trying to find things that aren’t necessarily there when it is merely meant to be taken at face value.”

“The Holocaust didn’t effect the U.S.” sure is a spicy hot take my dude.

When someone says they’re “highly logical” it usually means “I am a Straw Vulcan with total contempt for other people’s feelings”.

You said this:

You seriously should look up the rape of nanking. How soldiers raped and murderd kids in front of their families, shoved up bayonetts into vaginas, cut up pregnant women and killed their fetuses, prisoners being buried alive. Here is a quote from Wikipedia [not a pleasant read]:

You know you should probably stop digging this hole of stupidity you got yourself into. Your entire thread only demonstrates that you know nothing about what the article was talking about and are just revaling in your ignorance. The more you speak the more you sound like a dumbass.

So the guy who’s clearly into Japanese culture is completely ignorant about their history? Why is it that almost every commenter with an anime avatar is either a racist, a moron, or both?

How can you say that you’re a “highly logical person” but then write that the same lesson can be taken from the atrocities committed from both theaters of war? The lesson isn’t as simple as massacres = bad. You don’t need even a cursory study of history to understand this.

Please sit down and stop commenting.

You are a prime example of why STEM needs to become STEAM.

Lest you forget denying jewish refugees just because they were afraid they were letting in german spies.

Stick to your claim that you are no “history buff” and stop trying to say what lessons people should learn and where they should learn the from. You don’t get to feign ignorance and then argue with any sense of authority.

The lesson is that war is hell, and that no matter what you think things are war crimes for a reason.

Shut up. I realized school gets out soon but its not summer yet. Pay attention in class or you’ll keep heading down this dumb road.

Just because the event differ doesn’t mean the lesson isn’t the same.

Oh, so you failed yourself for thinking “history is boring”. You’re the kind of person that has caused so many problem in the present, being ignorant of the past while all the same mistakes are being made in the present, mistakes we could have easily avoided if you just picked up a damn history book.

Ignorance of history leads to all sorts of other ignorance.

The requirement to graduate was for “US History.” They offerred a World History class, but it was an elective.

You should know that Japan has a reputation of extreme prejudice against China and Korea. You do realize that they were an aggressor in China, and committed many confirmed (unexaggerated) war crimes in the 30s and 40s? A picture of a soldier proudly posing with a baby impaled on his bayonet can’t really be…

You’re a “highly logical person” who from this unpleasantess somehow draws that people are saying the horrific history is to be swept under the rug. Get the fuck out, man.