The anti-Jap poster does not merely single out the actions of Japanese soldiers committing attrocities. Rather, it effectively promotes an image of all Japanese as inherently cruel. I have seen others, such as a comparison between Japanese and Chinese from the times, describing the Japanese as always forwning, etc. the problem with such posters is that they foster a cruelty which is itself unrelated to any constructive effort to oppose the Japanese militarily or to counteract their attrocities. Such wreckless propoganda was itself responsible for many human rights violations against the Japanese, everything from torture and murder of Japanese POWs by in some cases to the mass internment of otherwise loyal Americans, who happened to be of Japanese descent.
Ju'iblex has a very good point?
As to the second poster, note that it goes beyone saying that going to war is a good idea, it makes not going to war a shameful act. When people turn from arguing the merits of an idea to social blackmail, the goal is to subvert reasoning capacities, not to advance reasonable causes. Again wreckless blackmail.
and I find the unwarranted personal attack on Ju'iblex is indeed pathetic. With or withouit a diploma, her grasp of world events far surpasses many of the rest of us on this board.
As to the OP, pleqase note it's relation to the thread title. If the article is really about the funding sources and control of anti-war protests, the thread title itself goes beyond that to suggest quite literally that anyone who is against the war really is pro-communist. Thus, the thread itself was given a simple commie-bashing spin over and beyond the already biased source from which it draws inspiration. There is every reason to treat the OP as a simple case of slander against any and all who do not back the war.
I think youve provided a top notch example of that myself. 
