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I really have problems with articles written 70+ years later about WWII making assumptions and conclusions about what one nation "had to" or "didn't have to do"
by josefresco 12y ago
I really have problems with articles written 70+ years later about WWII making assumptions and conclusions about what one nation "had to" or "didn't have to do" to protect it's people and win the war.
Viewed through our modern lenses of morality, with almost a century of data to inform on these opinions, it seems unfair to claim "racism" when likely the real story is more muddied, and more influenced by other factors.
- arjn 12y agoThank you for saying this. I am continually surprised by some of these articles attempting to use their 20/20 hindsight to pretend they know what was the right thing to do at the time.
- cloakandswagger 12y agoThis same retrospective bias is constantly applied to the atomic bombings of Japan. It's easy to make a strong humanitarian argument against events when you remove all historical context from them and substitute in your own modern context.