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- lukus_W0
The thing is, casual racism is worse than unmistakable racism imo - because it's insipid.. it slips by unnoticed, and people feel far happier to accept it - so it becomes entrenched.
"he's not racist for the sake of being racist, he's harboring some bad blood and rightfully so, Japan was an unstoppable killing machine in WWII, they would have never surrendered and had they developed the bomb first, they wouldn't have thought twice about using it."
War is ugly and people die. It's unacceptable to place blame on a nation after the fact. The vast majority of people in any war, would rather not have participated.
You're making a really moot, simplistic point, which doesn't stand up to reason, imo. It's the kind of point my grandfather would make - he has an excuse.
I know I'm going on a bit - but really, these points of view aren't worth spreading.
- you don't have to place blame on a nation but you don't have to like them either._niko
- anyway whatever, it's his character we're talking about, not you or I._niko
- I totally agree - you don't need to like or dislike anyone until you've got to know them individually.lukus_W
- plus neither of us fought in WWII so we should both STFU. We can't talk for anyone who experienced it first hand._niko
- No, I disagree with you there. The fact I didn't fight in WWII doesn't mean I can't have an opinion.lukus_W
- we both have opinions about right and wrong but we can't judge Roger for feeling how he feels._niko
- we don't know what he saw or what he experienced to bring him to that point._niko
- No matter what he's feeling, judging a race by its government's actions is pure racism.CyBrain