Huh, I didn’t expect something this compelling after I voted disagree on that comment of your from a while ago.
I do think I probably still overall disagree because the holocaust so uniquely attacked what struck me as one of the most important gears in humanity’s engine of progress, which was the jewish community in Europe, and the (almost complete) loss of that seems to me like it has left deeper scars than anything the Japanese did (though man, you sure have made a case that the Japanese WW2 was really quite terrifying).
Don’t really know much about the history here, but I wonder if you could argue that the Japanese caused the CCP to win the Chinese civil war. If so, that might be comparably bad in terms of lasting repercussions.
Huh, I didn’t expect something this compelling after I voted disagree on that comment of your from a while ago.
I do think I probably still overall disagree because the holocaust so uniquely attacked what struck me as one of the most important gears in humanity’s engine of progress, which was the jewish community in Europe, and the (almost complete) loss of that seems to me like it has left deeper scars than anything the Japanese did (though man, you sure have made a case that the Japanese WW2 was really quite terrifying).
Don’t really know much about the history here, but I wonder if you could argue that the Japanese caused the CCP to win the Chinese civil war. If so, that might be comparably bad in terms of lasting repercussions.