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US Politics 20w

justinian

 I’m sorry but this is just a correct take. Unless it’s literally something like the Nazi or CSA flag, we shouldn’t just insist national flags be banned left and right because of historical war crimes. There would be almost no flags left.
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Pick basically any flag at the World Cup and you’ll find bad shit done with it as the symbol. By this logic you’d have to ban all but a couple of the competing countries flags
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Anonymous 20w

The war flag of the imperial Japanese army doesn’t deserve to be there

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Anonymous 20w

I don’t know maybe war flags shouldn’t be flown at a sports game

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Anonymous 20w

this

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

It’s not exclusively representative of the Japanese army, it is an officially sanctioned modern Japanese symbol. If you kept this exact energy for 80% of the world’s flags I would take you more seriously.

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 20w

It’s a symbol that’s deeply offensive to billions of ppl in east Asia. It’s unique in that respect

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

you can't just say billions because there are that many people in east asia. how do you know they don't just see it as a flag, did you poll every single one?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 20w

If you poll a Chinese or Korean person on how they feel about the Japanese occupation of their country it’s kind of a bygone conclusion

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20w

Especially if it’s tied to some of the worst atrocities committed in the 20th century

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20w

For reference the only flag Japanese flag people want band is this one?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

"if" okay so you haven't done it and are attempting to speak for literal billions of people to win an argument on the internet

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20w

Should we not fly the American flag then?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 20w

We can just use an actual poll, the joint govt poll between the 2 countries are not great. This is how Chinese feel about Japan TODAY, not even when they were occupied by them

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

By today I guess I mean 2 years ago, but you get the point

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