In 1952, 25% of Germans still liked Hitler. And other interesting end of WW2 opinion polls.

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[–]NeoRail 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That was the aftermath of losing the war, not of the Humanity Declaration.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The Humanity Declaration was just one part of a series of steps taken by the occupation authorities to turn the Japanese into a docile consumer slave race. Wildly successful program.

[–]NeoRail 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the grand scheme of things, the Humanity Declaration was really a very small part of the American social engineering program in Japan. They wrote a new constitution for Japan, more or less destroyed everything related to the aristocracy, and promoted vulgarity and consumerism in the culture and media.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

From a Cold War perspective, Japan was always bound to be a U.S ally. Since the other alternative was siding with the Soviets or becoming third world.

In the grand scheme of things, they made a wise bet. They didn't suffer any destructive famines like China/North Korea, nor where they sanctioned to death like South Africa or Rhodesia was for believing in race & wishing to remain separated.

Japan is in a much better position to free themselves from consumerism because there are no multi-racial riots like George Floyd to keep the country distracted or divided.

[–]Nasser 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

South Africa and Rhodesia were homogeneous???????

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My bad, I clearly meant to say they wanted to defend their racial origins and remain segregated from other groups.