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'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film (www.nbcnews.com)

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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

That isn't a genocide.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Wow... comment section is full of genocide deniers.

They probably believe that killing off all native Americans and still destroying them is also not genocide.

Unbelievable.

[-] TooMuchDog@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

The killings of Native Americans in the US can absolutely be called a genocide. The use of nuclear weapons in Japan was a horrible act of war that killed so many people, but it is by definition not a genocide. Calling it one dilutes the meaning of the word genocide. Using the right words and definitions when talking about tragedies of war is not denial of said atrocities.