...Wow.
Just... wow. Holy fucking shit... wow.
Um, I'm sorry, but JUST from Unit 731 existing... You don't get to compare what the Imperial Japanese did compared to European colonization.
Yes, European colonization was oppressive. But... this isn't even the same ballpark. Or the same fucking sport as a matter of fact. That isn't even up for discussion.
First I said
in some areas, as in not everything they did grouped together, and
closer, as in comparison to what I was talking about earlier in the post, namely what they did in Taiwan. It was a single line about how in that era, in some areas, they weren't acting quite the same as they did prior, in Taiwan. I was acknowledging historical counterpoints to my oblique unimportant comment, that I will freely admit was in poor taste, about Japan's historic propensities in relation to colonization.
Second, and I will reiterate again that I was not trying to compare them on the whole or a wide scale as you seemed to take it. However you're saying I can't compare the war crimes of the slave trade, a significant aspect of European colonization, to war crimes of inhuman experimentation done by Japan in ww2? Neither thing should have ever been done, and they are both absolutely horrific. Both had hundreds of thousands of people dying in horrific conditions they should have never been subjected to. Sure they aren't the same sport, but in this they are at least both sports, both fueled by the absolute indifference to human life and dignity. Whether it was for the sake of experiments, entertainment, or profit, or any reason, ripping people away from their families and lives, torturing them, and infecting them with illnesses(intentionally or due to indifference that the conditions you put them in will cause) is still similarly horrific. And I will not accept that they can not be compared as being similar in some way. If you want to say they can't, then I will accept that there will be no discussion.