Barbenheimer Memes Provoke Angry Backlash in Japan
Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barbenheimer-meme-backlash-japan-1235548416/
Understandable honestly, in all seriousness. Germany (or Israel, or Poland) probably wouldn’t be that happy about Auschwitz jokes either if a movie about that came out around the same time as a new Shrek or something.
The nukes were a mass genocide.
Japan was engaged in a ton of war crimes in WWII and later made one of the worst war criminals the PM. They later elected the grandchild of that same war criminal who celebrated his grandfather.
Japan can complain all they want but no one should care about those complaints.
The vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed in those two attacks were civillians.
A significant proprtion of those civillians were children.
A country's military committing war crimes is never a justification for the large scale slaughter of children.
Side note: Unit 731 (the worst Japanese war criminals) were never punished as they were given immunity by the US government in exchange for sharing their "research".
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