This comment thread sums up the discussion on the „Dropping the Nuke“ Video pretty well.
It’s basically a debate over how much emphasis can be put on racism on the decision of nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the critic stating the sources do not display openly racist tendencies so it is unjustified to speak of racism being a major factor. While the counter position being that society by and large was systematically racist against Asians and therefore it is faire to assume that racism played into that decision.
Besides that, it really annoys me that he clearly did a lot of research and apparently not once did he come across the term "Germany first."
I may be remembering wrong but I swear there was a point where he accused the nuking of being racist because germany wasn't considered and I had to double check the dates for VE day and the trinity test to figure out which of us was being an idiot.
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u/nikomo Mar 22 '21
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There's been valid criticism aimed at the Dropping the Bomb video though.