r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/TheMrMorbid • Mar 14 '24

war Chinese prisoners being buried alive by their Japanese captors outside the city of Nanjing, during the infamous Rape of Nanjing, 1937.

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u/Porchmuse Mar 14 '24

One of the most horrifying aspects of pictures like this to me is the casual nature of the crowd in the background. Sort of like soldiers who have to hear the commander’s safety briefing before they’re released for the three day weekend.

It’s like they’re thinking, “come on, you’re cutting into happy hour…”

We can be so terrible to each other for no good reason.

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u/Nathaniel_higgers_ Mar 14 '24

They were brainwashed by their government to see them as less than human. Super racism

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u/indefilade Mar 14 '24

It’s not brainwashing, it’s nationalism. Brainwashing implies effort. There was no effort needed to get the Japanese military to do this. Same for the Nazi army.

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u/shouldonlypostdrunk Mar 14 '24

brainwashing is just repeating something over and over until it becomes an automatic response. it can be both.

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u/Nathaniel_higgers_ Mar 14 '24

You’ve never seen the propaganda they ran?

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u/indefilade Mar 14 '24

It didn’t take a lot to get Japan and Germany to slaughter and do medical experiments on “others.” I’m well aware of the propaganda, but it wasn’t so good as to turn a nation bad that wasn’t already there.

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u/Nathaniel_higgers_ Mar 15 '24

Ok that’s fair

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u/Echo_Origami Mar 15 '24

Those human experiments also benefitted the U.S.

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u/buffaloSteve666 Mar 15 '24

Facts, and we did our own fucked up shit, like the Tuskegee syphilis study

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u/JoeBidensBoochie Mar 17 '24

They built the camps because soldiers in Germany couldn’t stomach the rolling death vans

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u/indefilade Mar 17 '24

No, the soldiers couldn’t stomach killing men, women, and children in mass graves with gunfire, so the Nazis switched to just killing the men this way, then they used the death vans, and then they used the camps.

There were people administering, inspecting, and running every aspect of each method.

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u/cbreezy456 Mar 15 '24

Brainwashing is an important step in the rise of ultra- nationalism. How did you miss that step?

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u/indefilade Mar 15 '24

Didn’t take much brainwashing to convince the Japanese and Nazis. They were ready for genocide from the word go.

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u/YeezusWoks Mar 15 '24

Propagada leads to brainwashing. You keep referring to “effort” as if brainwashing takes some kind of force. It doesn’t. American nationalism IS already a form a brainwashing (i.e. singing the national anthem at events, reciting the pledge of allegiance, etc). None of which require any kind of effort or force. It’s just the norm in America society. When I joined the Marines, I did it for “love of country.” However, the national anthem in and of itself didn’t automatically brainwash me into seeing “others” as the enemy. That came in the form of propaganda in boot camp, and combat training. The videos of Marines getting their brains blown out by “hadjis” was the brainwashing we needed to emotionally embed hate for the “enemy.” It was the videos, the posters, and the training that brainwashed young and impressionable Marines into believing that “towel head goat fuckers” deserve to die because they killed Americans and the proof is in the combat footage they show you minutes before learning how to use the M249 SAW. That’s how they prepare you for combat, it’s all brainwashing techniques.

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u/KingHavana Mar 16 '24

Thank you for sharing this and being open about your experience.

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u/OldManChino Mar 15 '24

because they were already brainwashed? Or are you suggesting that japanese and german peoples are specifically evil inherently?

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u/JoeBidensBoochie Mar 17 '24

Genocide is something that has to be primed through propaganda and brainwashing it’s called “raising the temperature” to think it just “happens” is naive at best.

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u/indefilade Mar 17 '24

Some people are closer to the edge than others.

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u/UpstairsFan7447 Mar 24 '24

No, they aren’t. What makes them different?

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u/JoeBidensBoochie Mar 17 '24

Humans are conditioned to be

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u/-GuardPasser- Mar 14 '24

But you can be nationalistic without being nonchalant about horrendous murder.

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u/JoeBidensBoochie Mar 17 '24

Do be nationalist is to be complicit

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u/indefilade Mar 14 '24

Example?

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u/-GuardPasser- Mar 14 '24

Scottish national party

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u/indefilade Mar 15 '24

They are just unsuccessful so far.

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u/Plenty-Lingonberry76 Mar 15 '24

What a load of pish! 👌🏼😂

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u/Kraymur Mar 15 '24

It was 100% brainwashing but sure mixed in with nationalism. They had entire campaigns talking about how the enemy were literal cannibals and that if you don’t kill them they’d literally fucking eat you. The Japanese loved their propaganda.

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u/indefilade Mar 15 '24

All they had to fear was the USA after they attacked us thinking they were superior. Did they fear the Koreans when they turned their women into comfort women? Did they fear the Chinese when they invaded? Fear the Philippines? No, they didn’t.

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u/Kraymur Mar 15 '24

The fuck are you talking about.

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u/meanpride Mar 15 '24

What? Nationalism just means devotion to their country. Do people who support their National football team also massacre the opposition?

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u/meanpride Mar 15 '24

Being a dick to who? Don't get trigerred so quickly. Also no, you can love your country but at the same time, not be murderous.

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