Quote:We all knew this was day was coming. With the woke revolution overtaking the left and forcing its way into every part of American life, it was just a matter of time before they went after the Greatest Generation. Yes, I regret to inform you that WWII veterans have been canceled.

Apparently, their views during the 1940s simply don’t match up to the supreme moral authority of people who tell you men can become women and that the nuclear family shouldn’t exist.

In August 1944, an American soldier finishing up an Army survey was asked whether he had any further remarks. He did.

“White supremacy must be maintained,” he wrote.

“I’ll fight if necessary to prevent racial equality. I’ll never salute a negro officer and I’ll not take orders from a negroe. I’m sick of the army’s method of treating …[Black soldiers] as if they were human. Segregation of the races must continue.”

Another soldier wrote: “God has placed between us a barrier of color … We must accept this barrier and live, fight, and play separately.”

These harsh views, and others, from the segregated Army of World War II, emerge in a new project at Virginia Tech that presents the uncensored results of dozens of surveys the service administered to soldiers during the war…

…Some soldiers were hostile to women in the army, specifically in the Women’s Army Corps, where 150,000 women served during the war.

“A women’s place is in the home,” wrote one soldier. “She can do more there by writing letters or by doing war work than by being in the army. … There are too many immoral women in the service and I wouldn’t want my sister to live with such people nor would a self-respecting woman.”

Well, if some random soldiers in a military that totaled over 16 million people throughout the war said something, we better tarnish everyone just to be safe, right? And note, these truly are just random soldiers. The surveys are anonymous, and there were around 500,000 of them done. As most of you are aware, you can ask 500,000 people anything and you will always get some people saying bad things. That’s hardly newsworthy.

To be clear, my problem with this isn’t that I’m afraid to admit people held prejudicial views back in the 1940s. Rather, it’s that I simply don’t understand the point of any of this. To the extent that those views existed or were even widespread, they are gone. These surveys were a snapshot in time, mostly consisting of extremely young men who still had a lot to learn about life and respecting others.

Further, you have to judge people within the time and environment they were raised. America during WWII was still working through many issues dealing with race and sex. The same applies to harsh judgments of men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, given the time period in which they existed. That doesn’t make everything men did at those times right, but context matters when discussing anything in light of modern ideals.

Those that fought in WWII were great men, flaws and all. They stood up to absolute evil, sacrificing their bodies, and in many cases, their lives. With that in mind, they don’t deserve to be judged harshly by a bunch of academics and Washington “journalists” who don’t have a fraction of the courage the men who fought in Europe and the Pacific had.

Lastly, I just find this entire thing obscene. A sense of unearned superiority is pervasive among the modern left. They truly believe that if they were dropped into a different point in history with no preconditioning, that they would always make all the right choices. That’s just not how human nature works. So leave WWII veterans alone. They are truly the Greatest Generation, whether you find their image truly “wholesome” or not.

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Obviously---it was a very different time and a segregated society was all some of these WWII soldiers had ever grown up with. Even many aspects of the armed forces remained segregated at the time. At the start of WWII----1941 was 77 years after the end of the Civil War. For current prospective---the end of WWII (1945) was 76 years from our current year--almost the exact same period of time. Many folks who fought in WWII had Civil War veteran grandfathers who were still living and influencing attitudes as they grew up. Some of these folks were still alive when the 1941 WWII GI's were shipped off to war. Like I said---it was a different time.

To the Regressives a brave person in their mind is the one that comes out of the closet and tells the whole world that they are now gay. Or the ones in Portland that were burning buildings, maiming and killing others.

Heck, you don't have to go all the way to WWII to find prejudice. I found it in the late 60s and 70s. It was part of life, even I had my prejudicial feelings as my friends did too.

What this DipSchiffs want to prove is that people were fallible then, and I have news for those "News"people, humans are still fallible now because them and conservatives are not perfect and we will never be. They want perfection when they can't even attain it themselves. They are plain stu...not smart.

It's truly great for the "brilliant" generation to judge prior generations from decades even centuries ago by today's standards. The millennial generation is canceling science and math they don't agree with. I would hope the silent majority will cancel this woke crowd before it's too late.

(12-28-2021 07:50 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Obviously---it was a very different time and a segregated society was all some of these WWII soldiers had ever grown up with. Even many aspects of the armed forces remained segregated at the time. At the start of WWII----1941 was 77 years after the end of the Civil War. For current prospective---the end of WWII (1945) was 76 years from our current year--almost the exact same period of time. Many folks who fought in WWII had Civil War veteran grandfathers who were still living and influencing attitudes as they grew up. Some of these folks were still alive when the 1941 WWII GI's were shipped off to war. Like I said---it was a different time.

That's not what this is about. They had balls, defeated fascism, and contained the communists later in Korea. Fascist Corporations with their Communist street thugs don't want Americans to have any role models who showed the world how to stand up to, and stop, them. That's what this is about. Nothing else!

It's insane to judge people and events of the past by metrics specific to today. If anything they should take heart that we have "evolved" as a society and people are free to be as weird as they wish. These idiots don't understand that they are standing on the shoulders of the very people they eschew as distastefully inferior.

(12-28-2021 10:17 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  It's insane to judge people and events of the past by metrics specific to today. If anything they should take heart that we have "evolved" as a society and people are free to be as weird as they wish. These idiots don't understand that they are standing on the shoulders of the very people they eschew as distastefully inferior.

TigerBlue4Ever, they can't acknowledge they have benefitted from the sacrifice of others, or they will have to acknowledge the greatest form of love, God's sacrifice for us. And if they acknowledge that they can't make the world about power and stuff. Remember the 3 Temptations. Misuse your power to meet your carnal needs. Misuse your power for celebrity, misuse your power for all that shall also perish, the kingdoms of this world. "They" have an identity and don't even realize who it is they actually serve.

Instead, they can only claim that all are unworthy while never mentioning the one who is. Therefore the only power they have is destruction.

(12-28-2021 10:17 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  It's insane to judge people and events of the past by metrics specific to today. If anything they should take heart that we have "evolved" as a society and people are free to be as weird as they wish. These idiots don't understand that they are standing on the shoulders of the very people they eschew as distastefully inferior.

they make themselves the standard of excellency and thereby judge everything by that. They that think such things are not wise but fools