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Originally Posted by wdmso
I am just saying if you dont think that yellow Race had nothing to do with with dropping the bomb , along with other consideration your willfully blind thats all
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Borrowing a verbal twist from Nebe, one might say racism "is overrated." In that the notion of superiority in some form or other exists universally in all cultures, races, and modes of living, it is too convenient to dredge it up, a priori, as the reason for doing bad things to "the other." That it might play some role, maximal or minimal, could be such a common, nearly constant, perceived truism as to be what Spence would call "old news."
But, despite the common thread of "mine is best" in all races, there are variations in the importance and expression of racial superiority in different cultures. "Yellow cultures" such as in China and Japan seem to have had a higher quotient and more severe expression of racial superiority, than have most "white" or "black" cultures. Arabic cultures might also rank higher in perceived self importance and superiority. All three, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic, are very exclusive in the lands which they own. And all, especially the Japanese and Arabic, have been draconian in punishments they have inflicted on "the other."
How much racism played in our dropping of the bombs on Japan is hard, probably impossible, other than just assuming it existed, to define. Do you have some definitive documentation, some uncovered admission from on high that being "yellow" really mattered? That if Japanese where "white" we wouldn't have dropped the bomb?