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Originally Posted by Crossnerd
The US military commited thousands of rapes the first month of their occupation of Japan during ww2. It wasn't part of the military strategy and hundreds of the rapes were prosecuted. It would matter if it were proven the US coordinated mass rapes.
It actually does matter whether rape and sexual violence was a coordinated aspect of their military strategy. I have not seen evidence of it being coordinated, and remain unsurprised that certain individual men, of their own accord, rape when presented with the opportunity.
There are plenty of things which matter between any rape occurring at all and it being a coordinated effort as well, many of which have already been mentioned itt.
The US military attempted to stop the rapes in Japan through various measures, including prosecuting soldiers. I have not seen this done by Hamas.
The US military did not launch a surprise attack on Japan, allowing or even encouraging, soldiers to attack women and (best case scenario) not caring if women were raped.
The argument that "of course rape occurred, men were involved" does not accurately address what happened on 10/7, and borders on "boys will be boys" logic which largely excuses it.