The most tasteless and insensitive museum exhibit ever.

[Agathon]

How stupid is this?

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8184128%255E663,00.html

[Brundlefly]

Yeah that is rather insensitive, but I think this one might be more tastless and insensitive.

Hitler praying

[Agathon]

All they needed to do was make some mention of the civilian victims - but there is nothing. The US is supposed to be a friend of Japan.

[Jac de Molay]

Weapons of war have always been glamorized. Heck, that's the History Channel's bread and butter.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Jac de Molay
Weapons of war have always been glamorized. Heck, that's the History Channel's bread and butter.

I agree and while that may be disturbing, it's not such a big deal. This is like the Brits displaying a Lancaster and noting that it was used over Dresden without further comment, or the Japanese showing off an artillery piece that was used at Nangking.

Hiroshima is the supreme horror of the modern age, to soften it in any way is akin to denying the holocaust - whatever one thinks of the rightness of the attack.

[Skanky Burns]

I would like to see it.

But they should at least attempt to tell the full story.

[Tripledoc]

Originally posted by bfg9000
Yeah that is rather insensitive, but I think this one might be more tastless and insensitive.

Hitler praying

What exactly is tasteless and insensitive here?

[SlowwHand]

How so, Agathon?
There are memorial museums for holocaust victims and all else.
What about the U.S.S. Arizona?

[MrFun]

Museums that are REALLY tasteless -- those that put on display the "Lost Cause" as being historically accurate.

[SlowwHand]

You never stop, do you?

[Kropotkin]

I'm not at all disturbed by the exihibit itself, some of the visitors seems to be quite tasteless and insensitive in my humble opinion. ****ing moron, like any (with the possible existance of a few exceptions) of the civilians victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had anything to do with Perl Harbor or the Nanjing massacre. Why is it so damn hard for some people to tell the difference between individual civilians and the acts of governments and armies? ****ing ****ers I say.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
You never stop, do you?

That's right, because I am UNSTOPPABLE!

[SlowwHand]

Kropotkin, you act like the Japanese were blameless.
All good. Outstanding world citizens.
"The Bomb" was a bad deal, but they weren't blameless.

[MrFun]

Japan likes to play up on its victim-of-nuclear-bombings to try to get the world to forget about Japan's own horrendous war crimes.

[Kropotkin]

Oh here we go again. No, I'm not at all claiming that the japanese were blameless. Good of you to completely miss the explicit point of the post.