{"id":119646,"date":"2021-11-16T14:12:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T19:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119646"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T19:12:36","slug":"racist-revisionist-history-idiot-now-says-hiroshima-bombing-was-to-show-a-return-on-the-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119646","title":{"rendered":"Racist revisionist history idiot now says Hiroshima bombing was to show a return on the investment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nikole Hanna-Jones of the 1619 Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You might remember this lady as being part of the 1619 Project, which makes the argument that literally everything in American history is racist, has always been racist, and apparently will always be racist. To prove her point, they rewrite history. Consider that the country is so racist currently that this black woman is making a lot of money from calling white people racist.<\/p>\n

You’ll probably remember her as well from last summer.<\/a> She was offered a job teaching at her alma mater the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Because she’s an entitled radical leftist, she demanded immediate tenure. There was much public outcry. She was initially denied her demand, but then they gave in. In gratitude, she declined the offer and went to work for Howard University.<\/p>\n

Now, Ms. Hanna-Jones is pushing her complete and utter lack of understanding of history up to more modern times. She’s not spoken about the final death blows we gave to the Imperial Japanese at the end of World War II. The historical record is clear, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were carried out to bring an end to the war without making millions of casualties out of Allied servicemen.<\/p>\n

National Review has the story<\/a> on Hanna-Jones’ latest;<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve now been greeted with yet another rendition of fake history. This time, it is purveyed by two of the most prominent and persistent fakers: Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project and Howard Zinn, author of the most popular (and misleading) history textbook, A People\u2019s History of the United States.<\/p>\n

The misrepresentations, distortions, and outright falsifications of history contained in the 1619 Project have been carefully exposed elsewhere. Nonetheless, Ms. Hannah-Jones recently decided to extend her streak from the history of slavery to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. She posted this tweet, which has since been deleted:<\/p>\n

They [the federal government] dropped the bomb when they knew surrender was coming because they\u2019d spent all this money developing it and to prove it was worth it. Propaganda is not history, my friend.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to identify where she got this counterfactual account of Hiroshima; indeed, it comes from Howard Zinn, who wrote in his People\u2019s History that \u201cthe Japanese had begun talking of surrender a year before this\u201d but the Americans insisted on unconditional surrender, which made peace impossible. \u201cWhy did the United States not take that small step to save both American and Japanese lives? Was it because too much money and effort had been invested in the atomic bomb not to drop it?,\u201d Zinn pondered.<\/p>\n

So much for propaganda versus history. It\u2019s now generally accepted by everyone who knows anything about the subject \u2014 including Japanese historians \u2014 that the key reason for using the atomic bomb was not racist bloodlust (as the Smithsonian\u2019s abortive Enola Gay exhibit tried to insinuate a few years ago), or (as in another leftist tract, Gar Alperovitz\u2019s Atomic Diplomacy) a cynical desire to impress Stalin and the Soviet Union with our newfound nuclear prowess, but rather an overwhelming concern about the staggering cost in casualties a U.S. invasion of Japan would incur \u2014 not to mention Japanese deaths. At a White House meeting on June 18, 1945, a very worried President Truman learned that the man who was to head the invasion of the island of Kyushu, General Douglas MacArthur, estimated that U.S. casualties would approach 120,000 in the first 90 days. The navy\u2019s overall estimate ran to a quarter-million casualties overall \u2014 with the battle for Honshu and Tokyo, the capital, still to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source if you want the history lesson, though I imagine there are few here who need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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