The most tasteless and insensitive museum exhibit ever.

[Q Classic]

of course, asher. we all do. and every microsoft product should list in its credits all the dead husks of companies it's trampled on.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
of course, asher. we all do. and every microsoft product should list in its credits all the dead husks of companies it's trampled on.

But they live on in spirit...just assimilated.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by monolith94
I'd be perfectly fine to amend the exhibit to mention the Japanese losses, once the Japanese government recognizes the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in China during the second world war, and starts to teach this historical fact in its school system.

Why should it be *** for tat?

Why can't we be bigger men?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Because it'd be utterly moronic to list the A-bomb drops and the number of deaths on an air and space display. It's a different story if this was a WW2 museum.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Because it'd be utterly moronic to list the A-bomb drops and the number of deaths on an air and space display. It's a different story if this was a WW2 museum.

Sure, OK, it would be so much less moronic to ignore the victims of one of history's most horrible events.

And it would be so much less moronic to do this because the victims are supposed to be our friends.

Sure it would be so much less moronic to have found a different plane, one that wouldn't inspire such feeling.

This has traumatized the victims (again) for no real reason.

I've news for some people. World War II is over. The former combatants have largely made their peace with each other long ago. It's time for people to realise that whatever the reasons innocent people suffered because of nuclear weapons, and if we ignore that, we ignore our basic humanity.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sure, OK, it would be so much less moronic to ignore the victims of one of history's most horrible events.

And it would be so much less moronic to do this because the victims are supposed to be our friends.

Sure it would be so much less moronic to have found a different plane, one that wouldn't inspire such feeling.

Yes, yes, yes.

I've news for some people. World War II is over. The former combatants have largely made their peace with each other long ago.

Yeah, we know that. Apparently the Japanese do not.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Sure, OK, it would be so much less moronic to ignore the victims of one of history's most horrible events.

And it would be so much less moronic to do this because the victims are supposed to be our friends.

Sure it would be so much less moronic to have found a different plane, one that wouldn't inspire such feeling.

Yes, yes, yes.

I've news for some people. World War II is over. The former combatants have largely made their peace with each other long ago.

Yeah, we know that. Apparently the Japanese do not.

Most of them do. Anyway, it costs our side nothing to do the decent thing, and it sets the best of examples.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hmmm, we can be PC pussies and try never to offend anyone or display the Enola Gay in an air and space museum and we even mentioned it was used to bomb Hiroshima (not like that would have made ANY difference to the protestors anyway). I'll take the latter, thanks.

I mean, really, PC really has gone too damned far.

[Agathon]

I don't think it has anything to do with PC. It's just simple human decency.

[Patroklos]

Theya re our friends, NOW.....

We should praise the two nukes, especially the Japanese, for saving 10s of millions of Japanese lives as well as a few million Americans. You can't have your cake and eat it to, ie win agaist fanatical murderors who are the embodiment of evil, and not hurt anyone the process. I am just glad the emperor had some glimor of intelligence to tell his ministers to surrender, becasue even after bieng nuked twice they still wanted to fight!!! And yousay the bombings were not nessesary.

By the arguments above, we should not display any piece of modern technology in any museum because most of it is linked to killing. Being killed by an atomic bomb is no more painful than bieng killed by a conventional one, and in all fairness the US had no idea how much radiation would be produced, because we had never used one before.

Japan is the last people to complain about insensitivity, no Nanking museum in Tokyo. And I do not care what they are now. They are only alive and our freinds now becasue of what we did back then.

-Pat

[Imran Siddiqui]

I don't think it has anything to do with PC. It's just simple human decency.

No, it's total PC crap. We mentioned it was used on Hiroshima. Now we have to mention what the bomb did and how many died? Please...

[Dr Strangelove]

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

Hitler praying

Weird, considering that Hitler reviled Christianity. He was sort of a born again Wotan-ist. I wonder how the followers of Wotan prayed?

[Verto]

Nothing wrong with the exhibit. Go whine about something else.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
Agathon's in the right on this one, clearly the name of all of the victims, along with their age and address and email contact for current relatives, ought to be posted against this plane.

And when P-51s are shown, we must show respect to all of the Zero pilots by doing the same.

I'm sure everyone cares.

Welcome back!

[atawa]

The Japanese have, almost 60 years after the war, not ONCE apologised for their atrocity's during the war. (China/Korea, Birma RR, East Indian prisoncamps with mass rape etc.)

But then again never have the Americans for locking up Japanese Americans in concentration camps and carpetbombing whole German and Japanese city's. (Not to mention the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

Both have a bad trackrecord imo.