I killed it
Battle God
I killed it
Battle God
So it seems like Roxas' computer blew up
Trophy Hunter
No, not yet. Luckily.Originally Posted by Sloth
Battle God
Give it timeNo, not yet. Luckily.
Trophy Hunter
That's what I'm scared about honestly.Give it time
Tea. Cheap coffee. TV.
We covered it for a while, but the entire holocaust lasted a lot longer.This actually got me wondering, just out of pure curiosity, how does American education treat Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Also, you would be surprised. I did a bit of Googling around out of curiosity, saw some pretty lengthy arguments on the topic on some forums. One guy was saying he didn't think it was possible not to deny the Holocaust seeing how much "evidence" was apparently against it.
Keep in mind said poster had Mussolini as his avatar, so yeah.
I think the real thing people don't want to talk about is the Trail of Tears.
Asshole in Shining Armor
It depends upon the teacher, I imagine. Text books are undoubtedly bare-bones, as they are on most things, whether potentially patriotically demonizing or not.
The guy who covered WW2 in my school was also our chess club teacher, and was pretty knowledgeable beyond what the official school crap said. He was actually very candid on the difference between them bombing a small navel base, and us in turn eradicating hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. He also taught about the Japanese American internment, which was completely neglected by the books (as it proved America wasn't much better than the Germans).
This is also a guy who proposed the theory that Japan actually declared war prior to their attack--being an honorable people and all--but that it was concealed (and the attack was allowed) so as to propagandize it to rally the people to war (as the American citizenry has a history of not giving a fuck when it comes to war).
Battle God
Yeah they are pretty brief on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as Trail of Tears. Holocaust takes forever though. Showing other countries past mishaps of killing massive amounts of people rather than your own history is a great strategy.
Although we are talking about the US education system here, "No child left behind" my ass
Bulba~
Heroes of Might & Magic 3 is one of my favourite games of all time. OF. ALL. TIME.
Eeehhhhhh, while the Japanese internment camps are definitely a blight on American history, I wouldn't even begin to compare them to Nazi Germany's extermination camps or labour camps. One was a knee-jerk reaction to a shitty situation by a nation that doesn't have a great history treating minorities, and the other was a series of camps that systematically overworked, starved, and slaughtered millions of people.
Shitty thing to do, yes. Comparable to concentration camps, no. I would actually venture a tiny bit further and say that the residential schools in Canada are a more apt comparison, if you feel like pulling up something from North America.
At my school, we covered the general cause and effect of the bombings in the way that they essentially ended the Pacific theatre war front. My school glossed over a lot of the more "personal" stories - what happened to the civilians after the bombings, execution of Allied POWs, Unit 731, etc - and just focused on how everything fits into the timeline of World War 2. The same treatment was given to the Holocaust -- we understood the gist of what happened, but details were kind of sparse, and we focused more on how Hitler & Co. were able to invade and defeat so much of Europe in so little time. Less focus on the stories of what happened in the camps, and more focus on the war front in general.
To be fair, though, I started skipping school quite a bit in high school and might have missed some of those classes.
Trophy Hunter
I just got my 3rd Gengar.
Asshole in Shining Armor
I didn't mean to imply the methodology was comparable to Germany's less practical methods, but the treatment in some of those camps was hardly civilized, and there were numerous deaths, even if that was not the sole purpose.
But given some of the strong anti-Japanese sentiments disseminated at the time--many of which are prevalent even today--I don't think it a far stretch to presume that if atom bombs came cheaper, the Japanese death toll might have been closer to the Jewish death toll.
Murderous racism is murderous racism, regardless of scale.
(I wasn't able to find the "Be a chap, kill a Jap" poster on Google, but both my Grandfather--who fought at the Battle of the Bulge--and History teacher had one)
E.G.G.M.A.N.
Heroes V did a fair few things right. The story was NOT one of them.
Utterly pedestrian storyline which was at the same time completely predictable and completely mental. Bit of a shame, really.
Fish Fingers
I've taken like 10 shits today and need another one right now. Cuntbags.
Super Moderator
I finally got every eevee....after way too long...I just got my 3rd Gengar.
It turns out Bulbapedia was WRONG in that to get a sylveon, you need to level up your eevee's affection in PokeMonAmie and then level him up. However, you also need to know a fairy move too which is only learned at lvl.9! I had a lvl 50 eevee with no fairy moves! BAAAAAHHHHHHH! BAsically, you need to raise it from an egg and keep the shitty fairy move until you're ready to evolve it. You MAY NOT teach a normal-type pokemon a fairy move yourself.
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