RatherBeMTB comments on 'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film

'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film (www.nbcnews.com)

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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

Making the bomb was a good decision, dropping two over civilians after the war finished was genocide.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 years ago

But the war wasn't finished.

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[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago

The US was never trying to exterminate the Japanese race and culture, so no it wasn't genocide. It was a fucked up act of war, maybe you could even call it an atrocity, but calling it a genocide is wrong by definition.

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