The well deserved reputation of Americans for tolerance and humility has been highlighted by a series of widely circulated Tweets trumpeting the USA’s Olympic victory over Japan as “revenge for Pearl Harbor” (two nukes and 70 years of suzerainty apparently not being enough), in the otherwise obscure and unwatched sport of women’s football – where the USA received a drubbing at the hands of Japan’s team in 2011, which was responded to with the expected good grace.
Social media lit up with anti-Japanese triumphalism the instant the US team had finished whipping Nadeshiko Japan for the Olympic Gold, 2-1:
The remarks have been excoriated both internationally and in the US, although there is some doubt as to whether such sentiments are really held by as small a minority as the majority of Americans prefer to maintain.
The Japanese reaction to these comments is as predictable – although the loss of their overly prized team has been greeted with stoicism.
This is going to hurt me to say this.
I hate Uneducated Americans. This happen 70+ years ago and we got INSTANT revenge the day the two bombs dropped.
9/11, is almost the exact same thing to the US as Japan as the almost 3,000 that were in 9/11 as to the 80,000 that were LOST in Nagasaki alone, not counting 166,000 at Hiroshima. Even add the Pearl Harbor’s 2,400 deaths to the count add little to the could be raising the number to around 5,400.
5,400 US Lives lost in two attacks 246,000 lives lost in Japan’s two attacks.
This is the very reason I say medical science should allow some abortions, because if two bigot, dumb and self-important FAIL-hards mate, this s♥♥t happens.
I’m black and I reside in the US and have almost no true desire to support or degrade this country but if this is the s♥♥t that happens and got reported, Then maybe a few countries were right about America been dumb, uneducated and ignorant.
I weep for the US. Plus, I can almost say with a strong belief that 80% of these Tweets came for Christians that are ” Tolerate and Understanding”.
Don’t listen to those retards, America thinks you’re kawaii as f♥♥k Japan.
If my friends or family posted s♥♥t like this first I would knocked the hell out of them. Then I would dis- own them. s♥♥t this ignorant don’t fly in my circle.
america hates japan? too bad, the world hates america
I’m an American. someone please same me from my country’s stupidity. I also think some someone should shove a nuke up their ass. that is all.