Was it a war crime when US nuked Hiroshima & Nagasaki?

cicerone imposter wrote:

Hey, David, are you a kike?

No; Y ?

Some "white" people just like to make themselves feel superior by denigrating minorities. Maybe he belongs to the Nazi party.

High Seas wrote:

PS Japan, having accepted the informal assurances provided on the status of the emperor, sent word (of course in Japanese) to the Secretary of State which stopped just short of "unconditional surrender"; Truman decided it was good enough, and said so in the formal declaration of his acceptance of the surrender:

The "assurances" we gave Japan was that MacArthur would have the power to depose the Emperor whenever he felt like it.
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High Seas wrote:

Truman decided to take it that way - of course the only right thing to do - and that's why he had to refer to that Potsdam declaration; but that's not what the Japanese text said, precisely, though verbatim translations of nuances vary considerably.

Japan told Truman that they accepted all our terms, including the fact that MacArthur would be free to depose the Emperor at will.

It seems reasonable enough to consider it an acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

cicerone imposter wrote:

Hey, David, are you a kike?

No; Y ?

The term "Jap" is racially offensive to Japanese people.

Some "white" people just like to make themselves feel superior by denigrating minorities.
Maybe he belongs to the Nazi party.

It's because you are a bonehead
who doesn't have the sensitivity of a mule.

Jap is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese." Today it is regarded as an ethnic slur, though English-speaking countries differ in the degree they consider the term offensive. In the United States, Japanese Americans have come to find the term controversial or offensive, even when used as an abbreviation.[1] In the past, Jap was not considered primarily offensive; however, after the events of World War II, the term became derogatory.[2]

From Wiki:

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Jap is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese." Today it is regarded as an ethnic slur, though English-speaking countries differ in the degree they consider the term offensive. In the United States, Japanese Americans have come to find the term controversial or offensive, even when used as an abbreviation.[1] In the past, Jap was not considered primarily offensive; however, after the events of World War II, the term became derogatory.[2]

REGARDLESS of what it says in the Wiki,
some of which is true,
I stand by my reasoning, as posted hereinbefore because I am logically correct.

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I'm Japanese-American, and you think you can think for me?

No. Even if u were only a Canadian,
I coud not think for u. I lay no claim to telepathy.
It does not work that way, but that is a different topic.

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You are an dumbass with no sensitivity.

I think I am having a deja vu experience.

Only the most extreme out-groups, the low-low, receive un-
abashed disliking and disrespect: Groups stereotyped as neither
warm nor competent elicit the worst kind of prejudice"disgust
and contempt"based on perceived moral violations and sub-
sequent negative outcomes that these groups allegedly caused
themselves. Disgust is unique among the emotions predicted by
the SCM because it can target either humans or nonhumans,
making people functionally equivalent to objects. ......

Extreme discrimination reveals the worst kind of prejudice:
excluding out-groups from full humanity.

What has "logic" have to do with ethnic slur?
That your truth is the only one that counts?

David and Cicerone - if your exchange of pleasantries is quite over, please remember the thread topic.
You may also be interested in this latest neuroscience research,
on "neural dehumanization" as measured by fMRI at Princeton:

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Only the most extreme out-groups, the low-low, receive un-
abashed disliking and disrespect: Groups stereotyped as neither
warm nor competent elicit the worst kind of prejudice"disgust
and contempt"based on perceived moral violations and sub-
sequent negative outcomes that these groups allegedly caused
themselves. Disgust is unique among the emotions predicted by
the SCM because it can target either humans or nonhumans,
making people functionally equivalent to objects. ......

Extreme discrimination reveals the worst kind of prejudice:
excluding out-groups from full humanity.

There is a question whether nuclear weapons would have been dropped on Germans,
or even Russians, by people who looked just like them; the Japanese looked different.

Cicerone - the term "kike" is offensive to Jews.
"Jap" is just an abbreviation - doesn't rise to the level of insult.
So drop it - I know David and I'm sure he spoke not intending any offense.

Propagandists throughout history have been quick to pick up on the possibilities raised by the blurring of visceral disgust into a weapon for the in-group/out-group border patrol. Nazi propaganda depicted Jews as cockroaches and rats; Hutu instigators denigrated Tutsis as cockroaches during the Rwandan genocide. As with the sight and smell of a dispossessed street person, identifying the enemy with an object of disgust throws up strong emotional barriers to empathy.

David - my later clarification will have made it obvious that I never thought that you, personally, would be linked to any such behavior. There was more interesting research that came up in that search, though, so here's a second excerpt:

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Propagandists throughout history have been quick to pick up on the possibilities raised by the blurring of visceral disgust into a weapon for the in-group/out-group border patrol. Nazi propaganda depicted Jews as cockroaches and rats; Hutu instigators denigrated Tutsis as cockroaches during the Rwandan genocide. As with the sight and smell of a dispossessed street person, identifying the enemy with an object of disgust throws up strong emotional barriers to empathy.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447768a.html