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thedailywhat: Insensitive Tweets of the Day: In what should come as a surprise to nobody, approximately .012 seconds after the final whistle of Thursday’s USA vs. Japan gold medal soccer match, an onslaught of racially-charged tweets hit the Interwebs. Because sports and war tragedies are equal in the minds of some knuckleheads, many tweets declared the 2-1 outcome — in favor of the United States — “payback for Pearl Harbor.” Realistically, it was payback for a shootout loss in last year’s World Cup final, but even in that case, the tweet storm which ensued trumpeted the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan Daily News has compiled a bunch of the offending tweets, for the entire world to see. [jezebel]

thedailywhat:

Insensitive Tweets of the Day: In what should come as a surprise to nobody, approximately .012 seconds after the final whistle of Thursday’s USA vs. Japan gold medal soccer match, an onslaught of racially-charged tweets hit the Interwebs. Because sports and war tragedies are equal in the minds of some knuckleheads, many tweets declared the 2-1 outcome — in favor of the United States — “payback for Pearl Harbor.” Realistically, it was payback for a shootout loss in last year’s World Cup final, but even in that case, the tweet storm which ensued trumpeted the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Japan Daily News has compiled a bunch of the offending tweets, for the entire world to see.

[jezebel]

(Source: thedailywhat, via cityblue30)

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    Insensitive Tweets of the Day: In what should come as a surprise to nobody, approximately .012 seconds after the final...
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    fuck’s sake. Maybe we should stop letting 14-year-old boys...the internet? Or, better yet,...
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    I wonder how many of those people own a Japanese car, camera, laptop, or any Japanese electronics. smh
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    that’s not even like…i don’t even know…that’s unacceptable. And I’m not saying this because I am ethnically...
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    I love my country. I am so in love with the idiots armed with twitter :)
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    I refuse to click that link of compiled tweets. The day after this happened, I searched #PearlHarbor on Twitter and I...
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