Question regarding racial superiority in human history

Because when white people do something bad, it’s immediately worse

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Japanese had the very same views on their own racial superiority, and it’s almost as if that’s swept under the rug and attributed to just a part of their culture or whatever?

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They ate two care packages of nuclear fire and brimstone for it. They got what was coming to them. We punished their culture, their innocents and their children.

Germany has never paid any real price for the Holocaust IMO, culturally. Economically sure.

I think it has to do with cultural spheres. Most of the posters on this site live in a Western/European cultural sphere so the Holocaust is much more visible. Also, most Europeans/Americans are more aware of the cultural differences in Europe as opposed to Eastern/southeastern Asia.

Obviously imperial Japan should be vilified as well. Authoritarianism/ ethnic genocide is universally bad.

ETA: Salmon hit it on the head.

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Because when white people do something bad, it’s immediately worse

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When white people do something to a group to try to prevent that group from doing something they already did ten times worse in Russia to the white people.

Don't forget the Russians and the Chinese and the tens of millions of their own people they murdered and starved. For whatever reason, it's ok to commit genocide against your own people. (China is doing it now).

But you're vilified for doing it against another group. When, in theory, it could be somewhat argued the opposite.

Anywhere from 3-14 Million civilian deaths are said to be at the hands of the Empire of Japan through massacres, forced starvation, live experimentation, and the like, which seems like a very wide ranging number, and one that obviously has not received nearly as much attention in order to bring the number to a closer approximation over the years.

It’s still a hell of a lot of civilian lives lost under that regime, yet it’s almost as if it never happened given the extreme lack of attention it receives.

I could probably make a similar argument for lives lost under Marxism in the Soviet Union post WWII as well, yet barely a peep... It’s almost as if we’ve hung everyone’s sins upon the necks of the Nazis, and made them carry the entire burden.

The Jews had Simon Wiesenthal to keep the Holocaust in the public eye. The Chinese, soon after the war went Communist and became the enemy of the US, therefore there was no one to keep the war crimes of the Japanese in the public eye.

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The Jews had Simon Wiesenthal to keep the Holocaust in the public eye. The Chinese, soon after the war went Communist and became the enemy of the US, therefore there was no one to keep the war crimes of the Japanese in the public eye.

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Understood, but wouldn’t a people who purpose to be so outraged over war crimes and the slaughtering of innocent civilians eventually bring this to public consciousness?

I learned about the Rape of Nanking in HS and I didn't go to a particularly good school either, so

I'm not arguing that its covered remotely as much as the Nazis, but the Japanese atrocities are taught

the last Hardcore History podcast was about all of this

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They ate two care packages of nuclear fire and brimstone for it. They got what was coming to them. We punished their culture, their innocents and their children.

Germany has never paid any real price for the Holocaust IMO, culturally. Economically sure.

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Meh, the 2 atomic bombs were more show than substance. Both Germany and Japan received much much worse through fire bombs and night time raids carpet bombing targets sandwiched in between civilian centers.