WAY 2 GO ‘MERICA!

Well, this sucks. Following the U.S. Women’s Soccer team’s triumph over their Japanese opponents on Thursday, a bunch of super-classy Americans vomited their ignorance all over Twitter and Facebook.

Seriously, this is nauseating. I’d describe these people as assholes, if that weren’t such an insult to actual assholes, which, by helping you expel waste from your body, actually do something useful.

These people are all extremely funny and original — you can tell by the way they’ve all essentially posted the same stupid, hateful, lame-ass comment. Are all these d-bags seriously still pissed about Pearl Harbor? Did they all lose loved ones in the bombing or something? If so, I can’t imagine why they would trivialize their losses by invoking them to celebrate the outcome of a freaking soccer game.

As for “revenge”…er, there was this thing we dropped, it was called the atom bomb, maybe you’ve heard of it?

Oh dang, it looks like they have heard of it — and they find it hilarious. As you can see, several of these people apparently witnessed the bombing first hand (“haven’t seen that many j*ps cry since Hiroshima.” Really? What are you then, freakin’ 80 years old?) and one person seems to believe Fat Man was called “Big Boy.” Perhaps he’s referring to performing artist Big Boi, although I don’t recall the U.S. ever having weaponized a rapper before.

Also, what fucking world do they live in where it’s okay to say “japs?” Seriously. I don’t even.

(Source.)

Book is behind bullying of mixed-race children

Ouch.

A children’s picture book by Miyoko Masutani has been implicated in the bullying of dark-skinned children in Japanese schools. The book retells a Japanese folktale originally intended to encourage kids to wash properly. In the story, a red (orange) carrot, a black burdock, and a white radish bathe themselves. Scorched by the hot water, the burdock leaps out of the bath and decides to remain dirty rather than subject himself to further discomfort. As a result, he is still black at the end of bath time, whereas the radish is clean, white, and lovely.

Apparently, the story has led to some mixed-race children being labeled “dirty” and “burdock” by their classmates. Despite receiving complaints from the parents of the bullied children, the publisher of the book has refused to recall the book. The book’s editor has gone on record saying that the book is not racist, “and anyway, there are not many black children in Japanese preschools.”

*cringe*

Based on my experiences in Japan, I would chalk this up less to out-and-out racism and more to extreme ignorance and racial insensitivity. Still, the effect is the same. What do you guys think? Should the book be banned?