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No weapon was used. We didn't go to war. I'm having a hard time imagining we said "cuz they're white". And, to agree with you in your response to another post, we had little compassion for the Japanese.

Latter. Using the bomb against Russia was debated after Japan surrendered, race notwithstanding. As an aside, my family circumstances were such that I was raised by, and in the homes of, seven grandfather/grand uncles. They all enlisted, as young men, on December 9, 1941. My grandfather left my grandmother and 2 year old mom at home and went off to the Pacific. I've said here, before, that I was raised in a tolerant environment were racism didn't exist. As a boy in South Buffalo, I never heard "the n word" or other derogatory descriptions. I was a lucky boy. I will tell you, though, that I heard "pejorative for Japanese" and "pejorative for German", if only rarely. Truth? It was when my Union steel and bricklayer relatives were cursing Toyota, Volkswagen and Mercedes and those who'd buy those cars. I smile when I think back at this greatest generation. Wanna see racism outside of bomb nonsense?

No, it's not.

Edit to add: Hiroshima was the HQ of the Japanese 2nd Army and a war time manufacturing city. The 2nd would have been the primariy army defending an invasion on Japan's southern coast. Nagasaki was an ordnance manufacturing sea port. Dresden had nice architecture. Twice as many German as Japanese military personnel died in the war. I have uncovered a new truth. Americans are anti euro racists who treated white Europeans despicably. And here I thought I was going to have to sort through the dozens of races, religions, creeds and nationalities who slaughtered one another on both sides to find American racism. It was much more clear than I thought. Of course, I didn't expect this reverse racism, but that's beside the point. Any racism will do. So, the bomb's effectiveness and power makes it racist? Were we, then, tank racists in Germany? I don't want or need a conventional weapon analogy. It has no place. The atomic bomb was conventional in 1945. The crossbow was unconventional hundreds of years ago. This is absolutely nuts.

We didn't have the bomb in the fall of 44 and spring of 45.

I'll try!

How'd we feel after Dresden? I've seen more soul searching over Hiroshima. Maybe we think white Europeans are more sub human.

Well, I wasn't alive, but I don't think Americans "stomached" Hiroshima and Nagasaki at all. I think they jumped for joy, cried, laughed, danced and sang. Six years, sixty million dead. Over. The Japanese could've been any color whatsoever. Americans would have dropped those bombs on any race, any aggressor nation, on the planet. My great strength, or my great handicap, is that I don't see every single last thing through some racial lens. Which is which, I don't know. I'll give it some thought.

Julian Castro is now available for dinner with AG Lynch and SCJ Ginsburg. He'll no longer be busy interviewing as a candidate for HRC's VP. Totally non partisan - what are these people thinking? Harvard Law strikes again. No policy, ideological, rant, here. I just think they're nincompoops.

I'm glad you post. Your perspective is a different one. Different perspectives make this place great.

Sincere question. We're all mingling dozens of topics and events, so I'll be narrow. If race explains Hiroshima, Nagasaki and atomic bombs, what explains Dresden and fire bombs? If it's the number of deaths, how many deaths does a single bomb need to cause before it's a racist bomb?

"Party of one, please, party of one. Party of one, your table is ready."

Confirming in, if there's room. Grateful!

Truly, educate me? I'm not challenging to make a point. I'll look myself. All due respect to you and embarrassed if I missed that. Abhorrent. I'll Google. Added later: I found six or so news articles written at approximately the same time. While the words MAY not have specifically come out of his mouth, I'll attribute that defense (to the extent that it is a defense) to the fact that few specific and consistent things ever come out of his mouth. He certainly suggested the possibility (abhorrent, 1) and subsequently declined to correct or walk it back (abhorrent, 2). In short, I take your point.

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Your language is better than mine. I have fears. Lots of them. Perhaps I would have been better to say I do my best to recognize and segregate fear when pondering. How's this? Fear is at the table when I'm thinking in my head because I'm human. Fear doesn't get the final vote, to the best of my ability, when making decisions.

To Robin, above. I think i am a right winger. I feel no threat, no danger, no discomfort from Muslims in America, anywhere else, or those trying to get here. Welcome! I do see a threat from on a radicalized set of terrorists who've stolen, warped, bastardized, perverted ... pick your word ... the religion. That suggests a careful immigration policy, in my mind. That group "exists". I have a name for it. It's controversial in some quarters. I have no reason why. It's real. My respect and affection for the religion is unchanged. A bit disjointed ... I also oppose monitoring Mosques, cliques, groups, here in the US. Probable cause? That's another story. Have at it. Law enforcement and judicial review. Imagine my frustration with leadership that says "we're not going to do anything different and the thing you're pointing to doesn't exist, or shall go unnamed". I'd prefer "we know what it is, but our choices are limited". THEN, you have debate. Instead, I feel like I'm at a family picnic in 1955 and my aunts are whispering "cancer" instead of saying it out loud. You can be direct and truthful without hurting feelings. If not, you still have to be direct and truthful. Just as "fear" isn't a concept that motivates my political philosophy, it's also isn't a concept that limits my language or my exploration of ideas. Socrates. The only thing I know is that I know nothing. IPhone ... forgive my typing trespasses.

I wonder if this is how we felt in 1968. I was alive, but too young to remember.

Hoss .. Great effort .. Thank you.

I'd just add free speech, too. Oh, and search and seizure protections. Because I'm a good citizen, I hereby forfeit any right the state finds inconvenient or threatening. Hell, I surrender all of my rights. Nothing to worry about from me, state. Feed me, today. You can shear me, tomorrow. Docile, servile, neutered ... we no longer have to fear rights being taken away, we now celebrate surrendering them. What was that about the tin foil hat crowd fearing imaginary slippery slopes? Pshaw .... "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." Give me the liberties I find merit in and surrender those I don't or give me death!

Right on point for forty seconds. The problem is, HRC can't deliver the close with a role model message. I suspect I'd giggle just as hard with Trump and Clinton being switched in a responding ad. I also suspect I'll be given the opportunity to giggle, ad nauseam, in the coming months. Of course, my favorite ....

Or, said another way, when circumstances deteriorate under the leadership of one political party, the likelihood of selecting the alternative political party increases.

Yes, it is. I find him more result than cause. To my understanding, his supporters believe he is the political antidote to the political poison from whence this comes. Choose your "this".

If I wrote ... The last hope for blacks that "want this country". Increase black births. They want every black guy to make each shot count. Don't waste bullets. ... would I be racist and bigoted? Or, instead, are there two standards? And, if so, is one group held to a higher, and another a lower, standard? And, if one group is held to a lower standard, is that, itself, racist and bigoted? I am a man of limited capacity.

Symptom is presented as cure when disease is not understood. .... and the band played on.