>He remarked that I wouldn't find the same type of sense of community in slums in Muslim parts of India, because their beliefs about their poverty and their lot in life was different.
Keep in mind he's probably biased in some way here.
Now why do you say that? What is an alternative means to earning dollars that you do support? I am an online entrepreneur so I am truly interested in knowing. .. ty!
How does this work exactly, do you need one black woman on the team and then you can go all 3 days. Does she need to be in a leadership role, can she just be the Secretary?
And to be clear, founders should apply. There's no harm in applying for more than one day -- but we likely would not do office hours with you more than once. We typically get so many applications for each day that we're only able to meet with a small percentage of the people who apply.
Seriously? You're trolling their diversity efforts with absurd strawmen like the idea that teams will trick black women en masse into being fake token founders so that the real teams have an extra shot at office hours.
There is a disgusting "argument" being made here, but I'm not the one making it.
When's the last time you experience a racist or sexist remarks or behavior?
When's the last time you confronted a racist or sexist?
You're welcome to call me a troll, but filters based on gender are sexist and those based on race are racist. Any other sub-topic to me is irrelevant, and points back to the real issue, this is toxic.
This article was written immediately after the war, and doesn't really pass any judgment. It's one of the greatest works of non-fiction of all time, in my opinion.
> Say as an armed soldier, you're about to be shipped out to run up a hill and killed by Japanese machine guns.
> Wouldn't you prefer Truman use a super weapon on civilians to end the war ?
I know WWII blurred the lines on what counts a legitimate target (military installations, civilian-manned factories, entire towns like the firebombing of Dresden). As a soldier, would you be able to justify indiscriminate targeting of unarmed civilians? I suspect some Americans lack empathy on that part because the US homeland has never had a hot war in a very long time to the extent that is not imaginable.
In that case I see no difference between a solder and a civilian. Truman's duty is to American boys who are dying in a war Japan started. He's wasn't the president of Japan
You also have to factor in with any negotiation Japan may of argued they still owned Korea, as they'd had since 1910
In the Battle of the Bulge children were drafted,they magically become disposable war machines.
> In that case I see no difference between a solder and a civilian.
Surely even when you're drafted, being trained and armed sets you apart from civilians? This WWII vet[1] is of the opinion that even unarmed soldiers (AKA ejected pilots who no longer have access to arms) are not legitimate targets, let alone civilians.
>And the logic of killing civilians to save soldiers is just .. no comment.
Since their was totally a way to invade Japan and not harm any civilians. Since Japan totally didn't kill millions of innocent Chinese , Vietnamese, and Philippinos. It's not a bad guy good guy comic
When exactly was the last no civilian casualties war ?
We firebombed Dresden too, but you don't see Germany getting a peace day.
And remember Truman's first duty is to save the lives of the drafted men on the front lines.
You're making the assumption that you -need- the other side to sign an agreement. Japan was completely contained by the US at this point in the war.
This was a decision to hasten the end of the war, but did we ever actually leave? We still have bases in Japan. This was about hastening an end with a guarantee that the US would have full control of Japan.
Please don't misunderstand me though, Japan needed to be defeated thoroughly, it had acted and performed gross injustices against many people in the world. But these bombs were not necessary.
I will check out a summary and if it looks good I will give it a read. My googling makes it look a bit revisionist but I will check it out. Since we are starting a book club try 'With the Old Breed' by Eugene Sledge and/or 'Flyboys' by James Bradley to see the hell on earth the Japanese military had exported all over the Pacific. I was actually somewhat mentally exhausted by the end of 'With the Old Breed' and was glad when it was over. The book described something horrifying and grueling with no end in sight so I can't imagine how it would feel to actually have lived it.
James Clavell's fictional account based on his experiences in a Japanese prison camp is wonderful read too, 'King Rat'.
I talked with my grandfather often about his service as a submariner in the pacific, brutal, but oddly he never hated the Japanese. He saved that for the French.
Well to be fair soldiers are humans and aren't just completely disposable. Read "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge to see the fun and games a 19 year old kid from Mobile Alabama got to have as a US Marine in the Pacific. Spoiler alert, his experience was probably about as bad as anything a human could endure.
You can be a really bad one, that's still upper middle class in much of America , and not to shabby even in high price cities like LA