Karma is by far the most overused word in the English language. Many people, myself included, don't really understand the concept well enough. However, this fact doesn't seem to serve as any sort of stricture for us to just throw it around to make ourselves feel and sound smarter in an argument.
Case in point,
this linkBefore I begin my rant, I would like to thank Melissa, one of my co-workers at CTY Carlisle last summer, for pointing this out on her profile page. I honestly don't know if Melissa reads this blog or not but she deserves a shout out anyways.
And another disclaimer, if anyone reading thinks that any of the heinous comments on the link were appropriate and intelligent, I'm going to ask you politely to please stop f**king reading this blog.
I would like to point out that the overwhelming majority of those abysmally stupid losers probably fit at least four of these five categories:
A.) Are not serving in the United States military
B.) Do not know where Pearl Harbor is
C.) Do not even know the motivations behind the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
D.) Were not in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, or Honolulu for that matter when the attack happened
E.) Were not even F**KING BORN when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
This is a disgrace. There is no other way to describe the appalling lack of compassion and intelligence demonstrated by some people in the aftermath of one of the most devastating natural disasters to hit Japan. As of now, the death toll could possibly exceed 10,000. In addition, costly property damage has done nothing but destroy the lives of survivors. Let's not forget the potential for a nuclear meltdown that could cause major setbacks down the road.
But no, some of us living in this country choose to ignore these issues. Instead, they think it's a much better idea to start claiming self-righteous "karma victories" for a military attack that happened almost SEVENTY F**KING YEARS AGO.
I want to point out a larger problem. The comments remind me once again how people need to seriously throw away their baggage when it comes to historical events,
especially if there is nothing inside the f**king luggage to begin with. As mentioned earlier, most of the people who are posting such hateful messages were not born or do not have relatives directly associated with the attack. Instead, their sick bastardized idea of patriotism has eaten away the few precious brain cells that they had to begin with. I mean how would you feel if after Hurricane Katrina, some Japanese people said it was "karma" for dropping bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki? I don't know about you, but I would be pretty f**king pissed off.
In case those morons have forgotten, Japan has been a strong US economic and political ally in the aftermath of World War II. Japanese and American culture have transcended borders peacefully. They have been and continue to be a major supporter of US foreign policy when it comes to dealing with bloodthirsty North Korea. Mainly due to the cooperative efforts of both Americans and Japanese who were willing to MOVE FORWARD past ideological hatred and resentment, Japan now boasts the third largest economy in the world, and all this after getting nuked not once, but twice. I guess someone forgot to teach ACTUAL HISTORY to those imbeciles, because it seems like in their own warped minds, America is still at war with Japan.
By the way, I would like to add that at the time, Hawaii WAS NOT a US state. It was technically a colony, so can people please STFU and stop whining and bitching about Japan's sneak attack on a US state. Hawaii wasn't a goddamn state until 1959. Jeezus, it's bad enough that we have birthers who act like Hawaii is a country in Africa or something, now we have to deal with a bunch of cretins who keep screaming like a bunch of harpies about Japan attacking a US state seventy years ago, when it wasn't even a state.
This isn't just an attack on Americans. First off, 99.99999999% of Americans have felt nothing but sympathy and anguish over what has happened in Japan. With the exception of this
very minute number of absolute human waste, most Americans are saddened by this tragic natural disaster.
In fact, the rest of the world is pretty guilty of this stuff as well. Koreans still have not let go of historical baggage when it comes to the Japanese, over the colonial period from 1910-1945. While I certainly understand and empathize with
older Koreans who still have not received a sufficient apology from the arrogant Japanese government, younger Koreans who bring up these issues to "justify" anti-Japanese sentiment need to get a f**king life. In the last twenty or so years, the only major source of contention between Japan and Korea has been over the Liancourt Rocks. A group of nearly uninhabitable islands is barely something to declare bloody murder about, especially on an entire country.
Or how about the English? For three hellish months,
Nazi Germany bombed the living daylights out of the UK, killing more than 23,000 civilians all over the country. I cannot begin to imagine the horror and nightmarish life that Britons experienced during this time period. That is why if you are a Briton and you survived that trauma, you honestly have every right to still have hatred for Germany.
But most of the anti-German sentiment from Britons these days seems to come from stupid young punks (most likely drunk mind you), who don't know a damn thing about the agony and suffering their ancestors experienced 70 years ago. Case in point how tactlessly they sing this
IDIOTIC SONG. Or what about this
absolute trash of an article (Btw, England got destroyed by those "blackshirt" Germans in last summer's World Cup. I've graciously posted the
highlights for you in case you forgot. Sorry about the GOD AWFUL music in the background). Maybe if the young English fans wasted less time singing brainless songs about German atrocities that took place
years ago, and spent more time getting angry about the
current state of their sad excuse for a soccer team, they would have won a major competition by now.
The bottom line is, if you directly survived and lived through a difficult hardship caused by another country, you certainly have a right to have resentment and even hatred in your heart. These emotions are what make us human after all. However, if you are
GENERATIONS removed from those same events and are living comfortably, you really need to mind your own business and throw away your cultural baggage.
Especially, if the country you are targeting is in the midst of their own hellish tragedy.Cheers,
DC
Don't you just love how hilariously awkward Kosuke Fukudome looks right now?
