My cousin showed me this today: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ne...WoTbAiNwa-MeRBoAGWryABypHcB5LbUlpJlJm6EnvGC34
The idea that learning about WWII, or WWI or any war for that matter, will somehow "hit their mental health" or whatever crap this child is trying to push is absolutely fucking moronic. When I was 13, I was writing a research papers on the Rape of Nanking. My resource books had photos of what the IJA did to Chinese civilians along with full descriptions: Pregnant women with bamboo stakes shoved into their wombs, Japanese soldiers taking bets on the sex of the baby before they cut the fetus out of her. The actual rapes and subsequent murders. Competing to see how many people could be killed with swords or bayonets. Mass civilian murders. And then later that year I wrote another paper on the Bataan Death March and the assorted related crimes of the IJA towards prisoners. Later on I learned the Japanese actually cannibalized people, slicing pieces off them while they were still alive.
My mental health wasn't "scarred" or "hit" or "harmed" by any of that, unless an utter disrespect for the Imperial Japanese Army counts and I don't think it does. I didn't need a "safe space" after reading those books or seeing those pictures. My love for history was not destroyed and I went on to get a degree in it, even taking my senior capstone course on the Holocaust and meeting a survivor. I had some people in one of my courses, underclassmen, who didn't know that WWII began and ended in 1939 and 1945 respectively, but I chalked that up to them just being dumbasses. I guess I might've been wrong.
History should not be censored or ignored just because really, really bad things happened. History should not be forgotten because it might upset some fragile snowflakes whose delicate sensibilities will be shattered because the thought of men with guns makes them shit their pants in terror or because it'll portray the real Nazis and Communists in ways that will clash with their established worldviews. I'm fucking appalled by this twit's attitude and I hope very much that some WWII vets over there across the pond give him a good stern talking to.
The idea that learning about WWII, or WWI or any war for that matter, will somehow "hit their mental health" or whatever crap this child is trying to push is absolutely fucking moronic. When I was 13, I was writing a research papers on the Rape of Nanking. My resource books had photos of what the IJA did to Chinese civilians along with full descriptions: Pregnant women with bamboo stakes shoved into their wombs, Japanese soldiers taking bets on the sex of the baby before they cut the fetus out of her. The actual rapes and subsequent murders. Competing to see how many people could be killed with swords or bayonets. Mass civilian murders. And then later that year I wrote another paper on the Bataan Death March and the assorted related crimes of the IJA towards prisoners. Later on I learned the Japanese actually cannibalized people, slicing pieces off them while they were still alive.
My mental health wasn't "scarred" or "hit" or "harmed" by any of that, unless an utter disrespect for the Imperial Japanese Army counts and I don't think it does. I didn't need a "safe space" after reading those books or seeing those pictures. My love for history was not destroyed and I went on to get a degree in it, even taking my senior capstone course on the Holocaust and meeting a survivor. I had some people in one of my courses, underclassmen, who didn't know that WWII began and ended in 1939 and 1945 respectively, but I chalked that up to them just being dumbasses. I guess I might've been wrong.
History should not be censored or ignored just because really, really bad things happened. History should not be forgotten because it might upset some fragile snowflakes whose delicate sensibilities will be shattered because the thought of men with guns makes them shit their pants in terror or because it'll portray the real Nazis and Communists in ways that will clash with their established worldviews. I'm fucking appalled by this twit's attitude and I hope very much that some WWII vets over there across the pond give him a good stern talking to.