Posted on 03/18/2010 8:57:28 PM PDT by Abakumov
Was the "Greatest Generation" just a bunch of racists? Actor and producer Tom Hanks, promoting his new World War II series "The Pacific," suggested that the war with Japan was really all about American intolerance; and by the way, so is the war on terrorism.
In several interviews, Mr. Hanks presented a version of World War II in which racism played the dominant role. The Japanese "were out to kill us because our way of living was different," he told Time magazine. "We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different." Forget Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March and Tokyo's territorial expansionism. The United States was really fighting a war against human diversity, according to the former star of "Bosom Buddies."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
FUTH! My late father was not a racist you stupid bastard!
Yes
The profits went to Holocaust charities.
[The Japanese “were out to kill us because our way of living was different,” (Hanks) told Time magazine.
The Japanese, particularly the military, attempted to emulate Americans and Europeans.
source?
He said so.
lol, that’s funny...and even if true, he reaped a bonanza of publicity from it
Besides the idea is absurb on its face. By that argument any treatment of anything serious is exploitation.
So how does Hanks reconcile the fact that the Chinese were our allies during WWII?
Why wouldn't we sell the Japanese oil & such? Because they were slaughtering the hell out of the Chinese.
Quick quiz Tom -- are the Chinese white people? T or F.
I'd say you have 50-50 chance of getting it right.
It’s always a waste of time to analyze the words of a fool, and Tom Hanks has definitely proven himself to be a fool.
The only country that can surrender better than Italy is France!
His kids movies were often violent and gruesome. He is lib and friend of Obama’s like Hanks. I guess you like them.
Hanks is an idiot. If we had wanted to annihilate them, there was no power in earth at the time that could have stopped us.
Were the Japanese 'racist' when they dragged 12 years old Korean girls into military brothels to service a 100 or more soldier a day? Were they racist when the made competitions of beheading tens of thousands of Chinese civilians just for sport and then shooting millions of other just because they were Chinese, not Japanese? Were they racist when they slaughtered thousands of civilians including children in the Philippines when they were driven out of Manila --- just because they could?
But in Tom Hanks world, we were the racists because he saw a Bugs Bunny cartoon when he was a kid that called them Japs or Nips and made them look funny.
The guy is just another Hollywood idiot who lives in Filmland, not in the real world. He's playing the PC card trying to up his standing with the Hollywood establishment.
Screw him and his movie.
In 1945, if the United States had wanted to kill every person in Japan, we could have. We could have shot them, starved them, nuked them, or used them for bayonet practice just as they did with POWs and civilians for the previous 15 years in China and elsewhere.
Nothing could have stopped us, if that was what we desired and if we really were 'racists.'
We didn't do that. In fact, in only 5 years, we rebuilt their nation at great expense, turned them into a prosperous, dynamic economy, established a democratic government, and allowed them to be self ruling for the first time in their 2000+ year history. And in fact, some GIs actually came home with Japanese wives!
Some racists we are! We really suck at it.
Hanks and Spielberg were making money of WW2 and cashing in on WW2 vets. They are friends of Obama.
Tom Hanks peaked with Bachelor Party. It’s been a downward spirial ever since.
You didn’t answer my question. I like lots of cultural product by people who I disagree with politically.
Great link. Deserves to be posted on FR as its own thread if it hasn’t been already.
Well, yes, but with the difference being that at the time Italy surrendered the war against Germany was still in doubt.
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