The "remember Pearl Harbor" folks are the lowest of the low, no question

[Godhumor]

I just can't even imagine how much hate you need to have in your life to try and downplay what has happened. Disgusting.

(For anyone who is wondering what I'm talking about, a number of people are saying that, somehow, this earthquake is not too horrible because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Give you one guess as to what website is full of them.)

[bluestateguy]

1. That would be like a Northerner still being bitter about the Civil War in 1930

Pathetic

[Old and In the Way]

2. Let me guess, that bastion of anti-socialist ignorance - Freerepublic.

Amirite? Sociopaths are like that...they have no connection to the rest of the human race.

[Forkboy]

5. Sadly, I've seen it online all over the place.

:(

[Possumpoint]

17. Don't Remember Do You

Old and In the Way how it was right after WWII, the hatred for both the Germans and Japaneses? Those feelings die hard. For some, especially those who served, they don't die. The Japaneses committed many atrocities against both the military and civilians they faced and captured.

[Old and In the Way]

19. I doubt any posters here have direct recollection of those times.

I didn't. Most Japanese and most Germans don't. But how would I feel if we suffered a huge national catastrophe tomorrow and there were German posters saying, "good, they deserved that because of what they did to Dresden". Or the Japanese celebrating because we got our payback for Hiroshima and Nasgasaki? Or the Iraqi's toasting our bad luck? or the Vietnamese...etc., etc., etc. Point is, we (the US) ought to be past this. The wars are over and we won. The debts have been paid. Post WW2 was not our world, it was our parents and grandparents. This is our world and stupid posters that proclaim that the Japanese deserve it are a shame to us all.

[robdogbucky]

3. All I can do is remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki

and I lose it when I think that Japan is going through this right now.

You do know that those cities are still radioactive, right?

[Jamastiene]

4. Agreed

Those comments are truly disgusting.

[ZombieHorde]

6. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x613388#613468

[Old and In the Way]

7. The irony here is, had these folks been born in Japan in the early part of the 20th century,

they'd have been big proponents of the Imperialist movement with it's racist/nationalist components. Their 'enemies' are just a mirror away.

[BillyJack]

9. +10,000 n/t

[fishwax]

13. "their 'enemies' are just a mirror away"

Great point and great line. :thumbsup:

[malaise]

8. Funny that they are the same people who want to win hearts and

minds in the Middle East and North Africa after their heroes Bush and Cheney obliterated Iraq in their illegal invasion and war.

[Drale]

10. Japan and Germany are the only success stories

in America's 20th century world meddling. Did you know there was not one Japanese person was in the room when the new Japanese constitution was written, thats not a good thing, but it seems to have worked out in this instance.

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. when I was young and idealistic

I thought that all those people needed was more information .I believed that if we explained it properly that they would come around . I was wrong.They are proud of their ignorance and their hate keeps them alive.

[JI7]

12. the asses who say that probably couldn't even tell you about the history of WWII

[Contrary1]

14. In their tiny minds, it excuses them from offering any kind of assistance...

as if they would have anyway. Think about it. What major disaster occurring in the last few years have they not come up with a reason for denying sympathy or aid?

Other than Bristol not taking the glitter ball home on DWTS, of course.

[Scuba]

15. Actually it's a tie with the guy that raped ....

... the developmentally disable woman, and the asshats that failed to punish him.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x633901

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. If that's the case, I guess there will be ccountries around the globe that

will hate us forever.

[jannyk]

18. They may be saying that, but did you have to being it here?

[ecstatic]

20. Someone told me today that the earthquake would help the big 3

US automakers. I was definitely disappointed in his reaction, but something tells me that Americans in general have hearts of stone.

[phylny]

21. If my husband's stepfather were alive,

he'd be saying the same thing.

He fought in WWII and lost two brothers to "The Japs" as he called them. He was a bigoted, bitter man who said on more than one occasion, "I hate the Japs. I just hate them." He hated Hispanic people and African American people, too. When our girls were little, I used to have to pull them in to a separate room to scrub their minds of the hatred they heard from him. Fortunately, we very seldom visited them.

He stiffed my mother-in-law when he died. They had an agreement that if she died first, her money would be invested and he would live off the interest, and upon his death, my husband and his sister would have the money. Conversely, if he died first, his money would be invested, blah blah blah, same deal. Well, when he died, she found out that he left everything to his sons. It tainted the memory of her husband of 36 years. He was bitter even in death.

Of course he was a Repuke, and because my M-I-L lived with us for 9 months last year, we unfortunately still get his freaking right-wing mail. Pisses me off every time I see his crap.