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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 27, 2023

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This story just sounds like the 20th century version of all the usual “inhuman bugs blah blah they don’t help strangers blah blah they run over crash victims so they don’t have to pay their healthcare costs blah blah watch a coworker jump off a building and just keep working etc etc” propaganda.

In reality, I’ve never seen a shred of genuine evidence to suggest that Han value human life less than Europeans in a way that transcends material conditions. For every cruelty or inhumanity alleged there would seem to be an analogue in the histories of other peoples.

In reality, I’ve never seen a shred of genuine evidence to suggest that Han value human life less than Europeans in a way that transcends material conditions.

No European country responded to an invasion by an Axis country by setting fire to its own cities (1938 Changsha fire) or by destroying own dams (1938 Yellow River flood).

For every cruelty or inhumanity alleged there would seem to be an analogue in the histories of other peoples.

A country which operated death camps, practiced human sacrifice by cutting out the heart of living humans, bayonetted babies and sacrificed them to Moloch, would be considered the closest any polity had ever been to pure evil, even if it wasn't the first to practice any of its policies.

No European country responded to an invasion by an Axis country by setting fire to its own cities (1938 Changsha fire) or by destroying own dams (1938 Yellow River flood).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper_Hydroelectric_Station#World_War_II_and_post-war_reconstruction

The flooding surge killed 20,000 to over 100,000 civilians, as well as Red Army officers who were crossing over the river.

earlier for scale:

Generating about 560 MW, the station became the largest Soviet power plant at the time[6] and the third-largest in the world Reservoir Active capacity 3.3 km3 (2,700,000 acre⋅ft)

Also, Belgium and Netherlands used very similar strategy - but in competent way, with much greater effects with lower pointless death tolls.

I guess you should value your assumptions and knowledge as less accurate that you believe them now. But you solved this by preemptive blocking me to keep your bubble undisturbed.

A country which operated death camps, practiced human sacrifice by cutting out the heart of living humans, bayonetted babies and sacrificed them to Moloch, would be considered the closest any polity had ever been to pure evil, even if it wasn't the first to practice any of its policies.

Claiming that Germans are uniquely evil is not matched by actual facts. OK, they were not sacrificing them to Moloch specifically. Though who knows with SS higher ups huffing occult stuff.

But I though that you argued that Chinese are uniquely evil? The same applies. I cannot keep up.

(Nazi Germany was unique at combining evil, scale, efficiency and stupid goals, in isolation neither was new)

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