mo4ch:>‘Rape and racism’: Washington Post celebrates D-Day with controversial op-ed | Mo4ch News

As leaders from around the world gathered in Normandy to honor allied troops who landed on the beaches 75 years ago, the Washington Post published an op-ed that called WWII American troops rapists and racists.It would not be 2019 without at least one “woke” take about a historical event on the magnitude of D-Day. Enter the Washington Post, which published an article by Cambridge history PhD Ruth Lawlor, decrying the “darker underbelly” of “racial inequality and a militant form of misogyny” that accompanied the Normandy landings and the subsequent liberation of western Europe.Lawlor noted that after the landings complaints of rape began to surface in alarming numbers as Americans pushed inland. By April 1945, Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower stated that “wanton destruction, rape, and other crimes” had become widespread in liberated territory.The historian then brings racism into the mix. According to Lawlor, white US soldiers were frequently let off the hook for raping civ…