Dude, by that standard there was plenty of racism against Germans too...
The populations of both Japan and Germany at that time were deserving of scorn and hate. They both supported mass murder and had their own ideologies of superiority. Japan in particular was practically a death cult.
Almost everyone alive then is now dead, with the extremists of the time suffering a particularly high death rate.
It's also psychologically healthy to dehumanize your enemy in war. You have to kill or capture them, and more often then not it's the first option. No reason to spend valuable sanity worrying about their humanity when they're trying to kill you. That's especially true with large scale wars like WW2 where the whole population is meaningfully working together to kilk you.
pkt / Peter Todd
npub1ej…3ndrm
2024-08-18 10:50:40
in reply to nevent1q…naaz
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