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[–] 1 pt

The sad reality of ww2 is one of the few things I cannot discuss with my father. He will absolutely lose his shit at anything less than "it was a righteous war and we were the good guys!" It is the identity that replaced America being a new world built by settling and civilizing savage lands.

[–] 3 pts

Same here. It's kinda funny how emotional these grown men get when challenging their perception of the Second World War. I get it though, they've been taught this lie and believed it for decades, so its much harder to get them to question it.

[–] 2 pts

I think some of it is that we are challenging their image of their fathers. They know rationally that the war generations (kinslayer generations, as I call them) introduced many of the worst things in America. It sure wasn't the boomers or silent generation that were in power when Hart-Cellar was passed, or Affirmative Discrimination created, or no-fault divorce and the divorce rape racket.

But if they fought a righteous war against a demonic enemy, at least they were war heroes too. I think it healthy for a boy to want to think well of his father, and that is part of what we run up against when dispelling the ww2 propaganda.

[–] 1 pt

Good point, yeah. We are challenging their fathers, teachers, the very culture they grew up in and everything/everyone they respected. The War became the West's .

It certainly will be challenging waking up our older generations.