[ SECRET POST #1757 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1757 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 119 secrets from Secret Submission Post #.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon, in all fairness- and I have looked into this, the fact that the Nanking Massacre did happen is pretty unquestionable. The problem is, a lot of those saved photographs and records are actually kind of in question. For instance, the whole 100 people contest thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest_to_kill_100_people_using_a_sword) has been in question for a while, and if you read over the things that Japanese historians have written about the time period, you'll notice that what they do isn't so much to say it wasn't 'that bad' as much as it is to say 'it happened but it was just one of many other events, and other people are blowing up the scale of it for the sake of propaganda'.

Are they downplaying what happened to a somewhat absurd degree? Very probably. Are other countries likely exaggerating the scale? Also highly likely! The thing is, if what they were doing were as simple as saying 'NOTHING MUCH HAPPENED' in the face of all conceivable facts, then yeah, it'd be easy to make an argument against them. Unfortunately what they do instead is- like what I said, go around the edge of the issue and focus on the fact that it is pretty much impossible to determine the exact degree of the massacre, and then imply that this means that it wasn't the incident that other countries and groups of people make it out to be.

It's actually a fascinating topic of study, how different groups of people see the same historical event. Also, clarification, I do personally disagree with the manner in which they present their arguments, but I will say that the exact scale of the Massacre isn't that simple to define, and even now a lot of academics are still splitting hairs over it.