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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
yes flags/symbols matter
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I agree that it's a double standard to a degree. I'd say that since Hitler instituted the Swastika flag and Emperor Meiji instituted the Japanese flag before Emperor Shōwa, who was leading during the Rape of Nanking, that the Nazi flag far more closely represented Hitler's actions than the Japanese flag does Shōwa's. The fact that the Japanese flag has 50+ years on Hitler's was likely also a big deciding factor in the US government's decision to keep it.