SD top adamant that “it took two atomic bombs to make the Japanese nice”

Published 5 August 2024 at 14.46

Domestic. Member of Parliament Josef Fransson (SD) has caused a storm on X through a comment in support of the atomic bombings of Japan. Now he defends the liberal approach.

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“It took two atomic bombs to make the Japanese nice.”

So wrote the Sweden Democrat Member of Parliament Josef Fransson in a post on X last Saturday.

He was referring to the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Over 200,000 Japanese were killed in the act.

The comment was a response to a discussion that arose on the social media platform after SD leader Mattias Karlsson wrote that Japan is not “a genuinely friendly, warm and classless country”.

It took two atomic bombs to make the Japanese nice.

— Josef Fransson (@FranssonJosef) August 3, 2024

Fransson's post has received over 100 replies, and many are very upset.

“You bastard has no business in the SD at all,” writes one supporter of the party, for example.

Despite the criticism says Josef Fransson – and in a long post he gives a liberal historical explanation for why it was good that the US atomic bombed the enemy country.

He admits that he expressed himself “pointedly”, but does not back down from the message itself. The politician regrets that his post “upset a lot of X-users who seem to have as a common denominator that they are completely agnostic about what kind of country Japan was before 1945”. He also compares the Japanese to the Islamic State.

“Does a little worse with equality”
“I myself am not an expert in either history or cultural geography, but it seems be quite low standards to know that it would be strange to call Japan and Japanese people 'nice' before 1945. Rather, Japan in the early 40s is usually described as a death cult and although it is of course not a perfect analogy, it was like ISIS -level. From a moral point of view, there was no major difference between the Japanese empire and Nazi Germany. Even Japanese historians would admit to this.

As for the atomic bombs, Josef Fransson can “state that the end justified the means.” “.

“Today's Japan is instead a decently egalitarian society, even if it is a little worse in terms of gender equality,” concludes the politician.

Fria Tider is looking for the Japanese embassy in Stockholm for a comment.