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AmericaTheBrave posted...

Absolutely not. Stop arguing from emotional hyperbole.

Not relevant to any WWII discussion.

Not the same thing at all. And you can't not refer to Aushwitz when talking about what Nazis did to Jews. That's essentially saying "this tastes like chocolate cake except it's not chocolate or cake."

The US killed over killed between 90,000 and 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000 and 80,000 people in Nagasaki from just two atomic warheads at a time when the war in the East was winding down and war-torn Japan no longer had the resources to continue to fight. By definition that's genocide:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genocide

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military targets so essentially the US murdered thousands of Japanese civilians simply for being Japanese. Interesting article regarding the legitimacy of this:
https://www.fff.org/2016/05/12/arent-hiroshima-nagasaki-war-crimes/

I compared Japanese American internment camps to German internment camps. I made a point specifically that I was not comparing Japanese American internment camps to the conditions found in Auschwitz. However amidst growing paranoia and racism, people of Japanese and Asian decent were still forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to the internment camps against their will in a move so dastardly that the US actually paid reparrations to Japanese families nearly 50 years later.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Japanese-American-internment

WWII was a nasty war on all sides and I'm not taking anything away from those who fought and died. How history is presented would be much different if the Axis of Allies did not defeat the Nazis and the US did not defeat Japan. There's more than just a small amount of revisionist history surrounding the war and it skews blatantly in painting the US in a romantic light. A narrative that the US continues to peddle to this day.

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