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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember when they were outraged Dunkirk had no black characters.

A friggin WW2 movie in Europe where the English were trying to escape for their lives……and they’re mad because that historical story has no major presence of black people.  Truly insane how DEI is a de facto cult.  You can’t even tell stories from history now as they were. [/quote]

Black Americans fought in WWII.  My own mother’s uncle fought in WWI — and sent home letters and pictures that we still have.    The real cult is the effort to erase POC from history— and from fictionalized depictions of history.

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Because there were some black soldiers in WW2 means they need to be overrepresented in WW2 films? Puhlease.  99% of the casualties in WW2 were either white or Asian. It was DUNKIRK for cryin’ out loud.  If you want to make a super niche story about black soldiers during WW2 go ahead, but the war was overwhelmingly fought by whites and Asians, and they by far and away had the most deaths. It’s would just be extra weird and out of place to add in a lot of black characters into a story like Dunkirk. [/quote]

Yeah but the movie Dunkirk  left out the Asians as well. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58466527.amp[/quote]

The Indian unit was 300 men out of over 300,000 evacuated, and they worked on the supplies, not front-line fighting.  There would be no reason to feature them in the movie.  You people are absurd.  [/quote]
Why are we still uselessly reminiscing a war fought by imperialists and colonizers in the first place?[/quote]

Imagine being extraordinarily ignorant to the entire other half of WW2 in the Pacific, IndoChina, and the rest of the far East.  Holy Toledo. [/quote]
The war in the Pacific was fought primarily by two neo-imperial powers - the US and Japan.  When the US won is it any coincidence the British, French, and Dutch were given back their colonial lands?  The US even supplied these ashbin European countries with tons of arms to try to violently suppress the independence struggles.

Imagine being so extraordinarily ignorant that you didn’t know this.  Holy Cow.[/quote]

DP ever heard of China?
Military KIA     3-4,000,000	
Civilians death 20,000,000[/quote]
Still doesn’t refute anything.  The Chinese (and Koreans and Filipinos among others) demanded reparations from Japan for their brutal occupations of their countries and the US refused to allow it, shielding the Japanese from full accountability.  Thank you for reminding me of it.[/quote]

Chinese here -
It's hard to argue for reparations when your team couldn't fight the battle and needed considerable help from outside.
The Chinese don't mutter about lack of reparations. Both the Chinese and Taiwanese openly talk to this day about how shameful it was that a small country like Japan bested a big country like China for so many years. It started way before WWII.
Japan's presence in China was less a source of resentment, more a source of national shame.[/quote]

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