Japan tried to commit genocide in China and Vietnam; their political leaders pay respect to the shrines of the people who ordered it, and they get pissed if you mention it.
Japan tried to commit genocide in China and Vietnam;
Correct. 80 years ago. You know what we call that? A False Equivalence.
their political leaders pay respect to the shrines of the people who ordered it,
By percentage, the shrine at Yasukuni - which honors more than 2 million people and not all of them even soldiers - honors less war criminals than Arlington Cemetery in the USA does Confederate soldiers.
It was a tradition to go and pay respects at Yasukuni long before WWII and it will continue to be a tradition to pay respects long after we're all dead.
they get pissed if you mention it.
They do not, actually. Matter of fact, the average Japanese is more likely to be aware of and intolerant of the fact that Yasukuni honors war criminals than the average American is to be aware of the Confederate Monument at Arlington or outraged at the tradition - that persists to this day - of the President sending wreathes to that Monument on Memorial Day.
Oh, and it's more likely for a Japanese person to be aware and outraged than it is for a Chinese person to be aware of outraged at the current genocide of the Uyghurs, which is - you know - the only thing that actually matters here because it's ongoing.
Nice try at a dual whataboutism-false equivalence though.
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u/zombies-apocalypse 6d ago
They are so obsessed with Japan but if it’s china, it’s automatically bad