The most tasteless and insensitive museum exhibit ever.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by atawa
But then again never have the Americans for locking up Japanese Americans in concentration camps

We paid compensation to the victims. What that has to do with the thread I don't know though.

[atawa]

Btw, how would Americans feel if some museum in the ME displayed the original flightsimulator used in training the people that flew into the WTC?

I'm sure that country would receive economic sanctions at least, more likely an invasion with the crew now in charge

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Winston
The most tasteless and insensitive museum exhibit ever?

I guess that would be V.I. Lenin's mummified corpse on permanent display in a glass coffin for ahistoric lefties to worship.

But maybe that's just me.

Lefties don't worship it because Lenin wanted to be buried next to his mother.

[atawa]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
We paid compensation to the victims. What that has to do with the thread I don't know though.

Did you read the thread?

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Spiffor

The Auschwitz museum is precisely about the horrors of the holocaust, not about the technical wonders it required...

I'm pretty sure the "so what" people here would react differently than they do in this thred, if some German museum was displaying a death chamber in all its technological glory, without even mentioning it was used to genocide people...

... from the linked article:

The text mentions the technological prowess of the aircraft and how it "found its niche on the other side of the globe".

"On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan."

In this day and age, does anyone not know what a nuclear weapon does?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by 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.

IIRC, we actually did apologise

[Drake Tungsten]

Wow, I can't believe Japanese people went all the way to America to protest a museum exhibit. Very out of character; almost Korean, in fact.

Anyway, I don't see anything tasteless or insensitive about this exhibit.

[Patroklos]

Of course the Auschwitz museum doesn't mention what a technological marvel gas chambers are becasue,

1) they are not technological mavels

2) The Auschwitz museum is a holocoaust museum, so thay deal with the Holocaust and not technology. The Air and Space museum is an air and space museum, so it deals with air and space technology and not holocausts. It is not a hard concept to understand.

Now in your referance to Auschwitz, it is only related if the US opened an air technology museaum, ground zero Hiroshima, and displayed the Enola Gay without mentioning what the bombs did. I would give your bleeding heart claims credit then.

However, my local gas company doesn't have a memeoial to the Holocasue because it sells gas (for a profit no less, dispicable). Nor does the nuc power plant not too far away have a plaqe to all the Japanese who made this possible by pushing the human race so close to the abyss that we had to unlock the atom. I think I will send a letter to the local hardware store complaining about how insensitive it is to not have a 30ft marble monumnent to the Oklahoma City Federal Building next to the feertilizer section. Facists.

-Pat

[chequita guevara]

I'm actually with Q³ on this one. Until the Japanese come to terms with what they did, acknowledge it, and repent, I don't think we owe them any apology. They were the aggressors, and they were monsters on a level that made even Nazi's blanche.

The Enola Gay is an important piece of history, even as an evil thing, which it is. It dropped the first atomic weapon used in war. It let the geni out of the bottle, and for fifty years, the world trembled in fear, not knowing if that night would be their last or would the superpowers exterminate the species.

The substance of the protest was stupid, though.

[Drake Tungsten]

Q³...

edit: Cool...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by 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.)

Actually, in 1998 Oubuchi said: "Painfully feeling its responsibility for inflicting grave suffering and damage on the people of China by invading China at one period of history, the Japanese side expresses deep remorse for this"

There's no use of the word "apology," no... but "remorse" is a pretty strong term...so it's at least a step.

[Patroklos]

Well, considering they were in China and Manchuria raising hell for 40 years, that is about as ambiguous as "Dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima." And considering that 40 years of suffering every day through rape, starvation, murder, forced labor, and genocide is far worse than any of the Hiroshima suvivors dealt with, even the ones with radiation poisoning. Hell, at least the war was over soon after that, would hate to have been a child in Korea in 1910, I would have 40 years of oppression to deal with after my mother was raped and killed in front of me. GO JAPAN!!!

Perhaps the causists here should turn their eye to that undrestatment.

-Pat

[Drake Tungsten]

Well, considering they were in China and Manchuria raising hell for 40 years

40 years?

[Boris Godunov]

The invasion of Manchuria was 1931, IIRC.

[Drake Tungsten]

I know. He must've been thinking of Korea.