Imagine if Germany still waved the swastika symbol nowadays
glances at the Bundeswehr using the Iron Cross as its emblem, which is meant to hark back to the Teutonic Order and the crusades, and which the nazis unsurprisingly fucking loved using all overGermans aren’t waving the flag because of PR, not because they’re ashamed of the history behind it.
That’s the elephant in the room nobody wants to address.
Was just telling my kid recently that there are people in Germany who fly Rebel flags as a dog whistle for the Nazi flag.
in the popular western imagination the atom bomb totally absolved japan of its long history of crimes against humanity and transformed it into a model western country
westerners and finding ways to ignore the depravities of their allies, name a better duo
In the same way the the Jewish holocaust absolved Israel, in perpetuity, for the 70 years and going, genocide to the Palestinian people.
What can I say, we love our narratives wherein an Original Sin is absolved through sacrifice. I wonder where that comes from?
We should have got ridden of nationalism after WWII but we did not. I find it rather “logical” that with how the world is turning out under capitalism that the most ugly side of nationalism is having a comeback (pretty much in all countries that celebrate capitalism, aka the west).
Not sure how it is in other countries but in Germany we have to constantly hear how our nation and our way of life is at risk. Every propaganda piece tries to make our NATION out to be something glorious, something worth dying and killing over. How could people not become moronic nationalists and live in this society? The only way of losing my nationalism was to reject what society offers and I got to be honest, it is kind of lonely here. Actually finding ways to change people or things about this country is very hard and people who do have my utmost respect.
Anyways, I don’t see anything special here. Just standard western nationalism-exceptionalism if that makes sense. It however is shameful how Japan ignores or even glorifies its past. Pretending to be critical would probably not make a big difference (looking at you Germany 😠).
