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[Donald Ian Rankin]

1. Silly, distasteful, and verging on the bigoted.

By all means criticise Japanese revisionism. But don't try to link it to this.

[cheapdate]

3. +1

[zappaman]

11. +100

I miss UNREC.

[bluestateguy]

2. By that ridiculous logic

Any country that has ever (no matter how long ago) committed human rights violations (pretty much everybody) would forfeit their right to be outraged when ISIS murders one of their citizens.

[GummyBearz]

4. No

Just those who rewrite text books to try to deny their human rights violations would forfeit their right to "never, never forgive"

[qazplm]

5. so how long of a penance

should they pay in your mind before they are allowed to be outraged?

1000 years?

What if a million years from now, with not a single act of brutality from Japan committed on anyone?

Would they be allowed to be outraged then?

[GummyBearz]

9. Such a joke

The penance is as long as they have legitimate government officials denying the beheadings of thousands of Chinese citizens by Japanese solders in Nanking. As soon as Japan can admit to their own atrocities, they can demand others be held to the same standard, and not a minute before. Duh?

[NuclearDem]

6. I miss the Unrec button.

[mmonk]

7. So I gather you do not hold the Japanese

in any sort of esteem due to history and not the present.

[GummyBearz]

8. I'm talking about the present

In the present, Japanese nationalists are trying to rewrite parts of history, such as denying the fact that Japanese soldiers murdered (in particular beheaded) ten's of thousands of Chinese in Nanking. Once they stop trying to forget about that little event (the act of trying to hide/forget is a present day action), they can tell ISIS they will "never, never forgive".

That is the link from Japan's present to the past, and back to the present. Do you need a more detailed map?

[VScott]

10. "Never, never forgive"?

Fine ones to talk, they are.


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