Most offensive lie of the week!

reply to post by Kailassa


i think everyone isn't understanding what Hanks was saying he was implying that Americans were waging a war of terror and racism on japan... though i do realize that race played a factor but to say that the soldiers who fought and died for the US and Britain were nothing but racists is disgusting and careless

reply to post by zeroeffect


Zeroeffect, I'm pretty old; I was born into the aftermath of that debacle.
I wouldn't point the finger particularly at the American soldier here, they were racist because they were raised to be, that's how society was back then. And I don't just mean American society, the who frigging world was racist.

Even the people who prided themselves on not being racist still tended to have insultingly paternalistic attitudes to other groups.

This racism was built on by the militaries in all countries fighting, with soldiers being indoctrinated to despise the enemy and see him as subhuman, so they would be able to pull the trigger and kill fellow human beings.

Soldiers are just people, a reflection of the life and times into which they were born.


The problem isn't that they were racists then.
The problem is that so many of us are racists even now.