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Salon editors: We should have let the Axis win

By Duffel Blog Staff · Bureau · 1 minute

Filed 5 October 2022 · 1537

The following is an Op-Ed by the Editors of Salon.com

Following U.S. President Barack Obama’s inspiring visit to Hiroshima, it’s important to reconsider the most important lesson we’ve learned since the ending of WWII: we should have let the Axis win.

Bigots will no doubt try to factsplain the notion that Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor first. It’s simply more of their typical use of historical privilege, justifying a tradition of victim blaming and vilification of minorities.

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