wait I thought China was the one to attack pearl harbour?
Why have people been telling me that in WoW trade chat all this time...
Well OP, I don't find this new at all. They're the same breed of human as the holocaust deniers, the anti-Semites, the KKK, the black panthers, neo-nazis, the list goes on. The only difference is we have some relative level of freedom of speech which allows these gremlins to come out of the woodwork background of national conversation.

Realpenguin

8253 Posts

March 13 2011 10:42 GMT

#42

I saw some pics of this stuff on other forums and I can't believe how people can be this ignorant

almost facepalmed through my face going through that picture.

Anyways, this is my personal favorite one:
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Oh, America ~_~

Souma

2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts

March 13 2011 10:46 GMT

#43

^ Wow that guy's stupidity actually made me laugh out loud. That is quite the feat.

guN-viCe

United States687 Posts

March 13 2011 10:49 GMT

#44

Pearl Harbor: 2,403 deaths

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 90,000–166,000 killed in Hiroshima
60,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki

Yay for ignorance !

Spazer

Canada8033 Posts

March 13 2011 10:54 GMT

#45

On March 13 2011 19:41 Roe wrote:
wait I thought China was the one to attack pearl harbour?
Why have people been telling me that in WoW trade chat all this time...

lol, China was on the Allies' side in WWII. Even if they had wanted to attack the US (which they had no reason to), they were kinda busy with the Japanese invasion of their homeland at the time.

nanashin

United States1584 Posts

March 13 2011 11:01 GMT

#46

Well, it can't really be helped, can it. With our dropout rates, most us do not make it far enough through the educational system to learn that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was all about oil. Maybe if they push it into earlier stage curriculums they would be more forgiving of that long ago attack.

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

March 13 2011 11:03 GMT

#47

Wow are these facebook guys your "friends" ?
This is both incredibly disgusting and ignorant.

Shinrei

United States241 Posts

March 13 2011 11:13 GMT

#48

The sheer ignorance and blind stupidity emanating from those people's posts is infuriating. Can't believe that they can say they deserved to get hit by an earthquake/tsunami because of something that happened 70 years ago with a different generation of people.

krok(obs)

Germany264 Posts

March 13 2011 11:16 GMT

#49

why would anyone want to listen to these people? really,come on. idk it kinda comes off as a fake to me because i have a hard time believing theres people that can spout such shit.but its not much different from your average ignorant, mostly young idiot that just wants to post something to come off as having a political opinion on something, hoping it might distinguish them from others. these people have no connection whatsoever to the events from 70 years ago ( well hardly any id reckon). they are the definition of retarded, what gives them the right to be this judgemental? because theyve personally been there? because they have the right to advocate vengeance for an event they are nto even remotely attached to? have they completed an extensive study of socio-economic and historical causes that led to the attack and the swift reprivals and the nuclear bombs?

smacks of a lot of unwarranted self-importance to me

SushilS

2115 Posts

March 13 2011 11:27 GMT

#50

On March 13 2011 18:11 ArvickHero wrote:
I'm glad none of this garbage ended up in my FB news stream, otherwise I would've started a fuckin war with whichever idiot spewed such trash

Shit like this is why Im glad I never got onto FB in the first place....

Speedbump

New Zealand338 Posts

March 13 2011 11:27 GMT

#51

Man, those Facebook people commenting on Pearl Harbour need to manner the fuck up.

Joking about Mother Nature having her way with a country is never cool.

Tetralix

Netherlands65 Posts

March 13 2011 11:32 GMT

#52

Things like this make me lose faith in humanity, but like other posters said it is best to just ignore these sort of uneducated small-minded people. Don't forget that the USA is a big country and wherever there are a lot of people there are bound to be a lot of idiots spouting crap about pretty much anything you can think of. I do not even feel like arguing with the likes of them, I just facepalm and hope this group is a minority and does not reproduce.

Swwww

Switzerland812 Posts

March 13 2011 11:34 GMT

#53

These people are fucking retarded lol

FraCuS

United States1072 Posts

March 13 2011 11:39 GMT

#54

So fucked up and ignorant.

Womwomwom

5930 Posts

March 13 2011 12:40 GMT

#55

Its amusing how long people are willing to hold grudges for to fuel their beliefs, although 70 years is small time compared many others. I believe parts of the Middle East still harbor a grudge against Alexander the Great despite the fact his conquests we done thousands of years ago.

Anyway, these people aren't ignorant they know exactly what they're doing. The whole Pearl Harbour shit is just justification for their disliked of the Japanese people and in many cases the very same people will hide behind this fact to shield them from anyone commenting on their racism ("I'm not racist, its just karma for their attack on US soil").

To use a Starcraft example, its exactly the same as all those people who dislike Flash because he's a turtle. The very same people know he's probably one of the most aggressive terrans playing today but because they dislike him for beating their favourite player into the ground, they latch onto the few boring games where he builds 100 turrets to shield them from any call outs. They're not ignorant, they just really fucking hate some things and will grasp at straws to help justify their beliefs.

Wonder if there is any cognitive dissonance amongst these people.

SpiritoftheTunA

United States20903 Posts

March 13 2011 12:49 GMT

#56

On March 13 2011 19:49 guN-viCe wrote:
Pearl Harbor: 2,403 deaths

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 90,000–166,000 killed in Hiroshima
60,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki

Yay for ignorance !

I actually don't get why people like comparing these events either; shouldn't we be counting something like total civilian deaths? Yeah I know these are big events, but it doesn't mean that they made up the entire war.

fush

Canada563 Posts

March 13 2011 12:51 GMT

#57

On March 13 2011 17:52 Zerokaiser wrote:
This is what happens in a country that's ruled by horrible media and nationalism.

Goad Japan into attacking.

Drop 2 nuclear bombs on civilian targets in Japan.

Tell Japan "they had it coming" when an earthquake kills tens of thousands of innocent people over half a century later.

EDIT: There's gonna' be a lot of comments about "There will always be idiots that you need to ignore."

I know this doesn't apply to the majority, that's not what I'm saying...but let's be honest, there's a disproportionately high amount of shit frothing from American mouths. It's tough to believe that such a developed country can be raising so many ridiculous people considering corporate interest and nationalism has only really taken hold since WW2. Mr. Americans in this thread, what is it that keeps you in the States? Is it family, friends, finance?

are you serious? this makes me sad coming from a fellow canadian, but don't you think people generalizing americans as a whole over a few idiotic posters on facebook aren't much better than the people they're ridiculing? why don't you take a stat about the number of american sympathetic posts over this and compare to the number who say shit like this before making your grand conclusion?

i'd say the sheep who flock to a bandwagon of anti-americanism is pretty much exactly the same phenomenon that causes these idiots to post what they did about pearl harbor, is it not?

On March 13 2011 19:41 Roe wrote:
wait I thought China was the one to attack pearl harbour?
Why have people been telling me that in WoW trade chat all this time...
Well OP, I don't find this new at all. They're the same breed of human as the holocaust deniers, the anti-Semites, the KKK, the black panthers, neo-nazis, the list goes on. The only difference is we have some relative level of freedom of speech which allows these gremlins to come out of the woodwork background of national conversation.

this is quite possibly worse than the stuff mentioned in the OP. LOL.

Hans-Titan

Denmark1711 Posts

March 13 2011 14:24 GMT

#58

There were a bunch of these as well after the earthquake in Haiti, where people asked 'why are we helping Haiti, noone helped us after Katrina!'

-_______________-;;

Ignorance.

EDIT: Found some of 'em, there were tons more though...

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Bergys

Sweden337 Posts

March 13 2011 14:30 GMT

#59

On March 13 2011 21:51 fush wrote:

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The fact like places like that even exists raises them above average on the idiot-scale lol.

29 fps

United States5725 Posts

March 13 2011 14:43 GMT

#60

i wonder if the 4chan folks are gonna hack their accounts as revenge for such ignorance... i would not be surprised.

ignorance persists, no matter what we do. it's inevitable.