I would not make that conclusion. Do you employ the same logic regarding the democratically elected Nazi party and the German people ?
Do you employ the same logic regarding Stalinist Russia and the russian people ?
Do you employ the same logic regarding the slave owning southerners and the southern US people ?
he Bataan Death March about Japanese morals. They have none.
I would not make that conclusion. Do you employ the same logic regarding the democratically elected Nazi party and the German people ?
Do you employ the same logic regarding Stalinist Russia and the russian people ?
The Germans were forced to face their past and have responded accordingly. National Socialism, the swastika, and the Nazi salute are against the law today in Germany, as is Holocaust denial. The Germans were white anti-Communists so there was no reason to hold back on them.
The Communists and the Japanese, however, have been protected by political correctness (the former because they're commies, the latter because they're not white) and have never faced up. Several of the former Soviet bloc countries are governed by their former Communist parties. In Japan there is no law against historical revisionism or the old militarist ideology.
Do you employ the same logic regarding the slave owning southerners and the southern US people ?
Most people do. Though it never ceases to amaze me how only white Southerners count as "Southerners." If Southerners owned slaves, then the slaves they owned were just as Southern. Somehow that point never comes across (just as the idea of Blacks as fundamentalist chrstians never comes across).