My entire paternal family is from Nanjing, and my great-grandma and grandma are survivors of WWII (they fled to Chongqing eventually). One time, I asked my 94-year-old grandma, who has lost most of her memory because of Alzheimer's, about the Nanjing Massacre. Her immediate, spontaneous reaction was "fear"—not hatred, not revenge, but just tremors with fear. But when we asked her about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, she said without a second of hesitation that "it's wrong to kill so many civilians and children."

The cruelty of the Nanjing Massacre (as well as other massacres and genocide in other cities in the world) is beyond humanity, and the fact that Japan refuses to acknowledge this history is completely unacceptable. For that reason, the keyword "Nanjing Massacre" deserves as many appearances on the Internet as possible to raise awareness. But it's just as unacceptable when people exploit the tragic of the victims to make a point about other current affairs. Even though issues like extreme nationalism or China's social problems do exist, please discuss those in a separate setting instead of exploiting the victims and survivors to fulfill selfish goals.

When I see people say things like, "Did you know that while the CCP is promoting a WWII movie, terrible things X, Y, and Z are also happening? And therefore it's just provoking hatred and nationalism. "—and a lot of people say this—all I can think is this: If there's a current event you believe isn't being discussed enough, please write a piece to educate us about the important event that we wouldn't know about otherwise.

Also, it's stupid to assume that using hatred to brainwash people works that easily. I was born and raised in Nanjing until I was 18, and there are memorial events (like air-raid alarm drills) every December. My friends and I grew up fully aware of the history, but our brains turned out just fine—nobody turned into a brainwashed nationalist full of hatred and resentment.