The granddaughter of the man who flew the Enola Gay during World War 2 is speaking out.

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
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    23 days ago

    I don’t know Lady, I think dropping a nuke on a civilian population is pretty shameful.

    • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works
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      23 days ago

      Erasing history is shameful, even if that history is shameful. People rag on Japan for not properly teaching about their role and atrocities in WWII, and with good reason. It’s the same reason neonazis think that they were the good guys in WWII, americans think they were the good guys in Vietnam and the korean war, etc.

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        22 days ago

        I’d love to hear your take on why the USA was the bad guys in the Korean War.

        Are you parroting the statements of the North?

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          22 days ago

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Korean_War

          South Korea was a fascist state run by collaborators from the IJA occupation. Enslaving your population to fight in another nation’s civil war and chain atrocities while MacArthur argues for the nuclear extermination of China, which you tried to invade after beating the North Koreans, is generally considered a bad thing to good people.

          That the Kims established a monarchy after being embargoed for most of century is what you call the benefit of hindsight, and I can tell you one thing, allied intervention on South Korea behalf sure wasn’t done with the assassination of their dictator twenty years later in mind.

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      23 days ago

      Yes as was invading China and the South Pacific and then launching a surprise attack on another country that then drops some big fucking bombs on you in retaliation.

      You’re right though, because a shameful thing happened in the past we ought to ignore the shame happening now.

      Good point.