AOC's Chief-Of-Staff Wears T-Shirt Featuring Nazi Collaborator

[RHMerriman]

144. As a traitor by the British and their Indian allies;

As a traitor by the British and their Indian allies; as an embarrassment by the pro-independence Indian nationalists, presumably.

After the experience of the Okinawans, Taiwanese, Koreans, Manchurians, and Chinese before 1941, and the Filipinos, Indochinese, Thais, Malayans, Indonesians, Burmese, and Indians after 1941, it's not like the record of the Japanese Empire regarding their fellow Asians was unknown.

Bose was a puppet of the Japanese, and given that roughly 2.5 million people from the Indian subcontinent served in the Allied militaries and merchant marines during WW2, and roughly 90,000 died fighting the Axis - both the Italians and Germans in the African and Mediterranean/European theaters and the Japanese in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific - one would think even Indian nationalists in the 21st Century would understand the legacy of that service...

As an obvious point, the post-independence armed forces of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh all trace their histories and traditions through the organizations that fought the Axis in WW 2.

But that's hardly pertinent - the reality is that Mr. Chakrabarti is a native-born US citizen, with an excellent education, and is surely enough of an adult to understand what this nation lost to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

And yet he think it is "edgy" to wear a t-shirt with a picture of an Axis puppet army's leader... has he explained that one yet?

I mean, calling his fellow Democrats - including respected members of the CBC, for example - as what amount to Uncle Toms is an idiotically offensive and tone deaf move, but does he really think the Axis are the side to commemorate when it comes to the Second World War?