A Lesson In Social Media Ignorance: Earthquake In Japan 2011

Posted by BananaFamine on March 14, 2011

A friend recently shared a link to an image featuring a collection of facebook statuses regarding the recent events in Japan. All of which are blatantly ignorant and insensitive, to such a degree that it most likely will qualify as black humor for some. I am not sure the history of the image, however I’d assume they were gathered using something like YourOpenBook.org (A search on the site reveals many similar postings).

Posted in: Earthquakes, Emerging Issues, Facebook, Human Rights, Ignorance, Japan, Natural Disasters, Pearl Harbor, Social Media, WTF

Junny

Not just stupid teenagers, some of the pics show adults. Most likely fanatical bigoted xenophobic FOX News-watching teabaggers from the south.
Fond of you

Hi my name is Richard Curtis and I enjoy agreeing with people.
Ppasco12

I feel like, despite that fact that people died, this event was neither good or bad. Good and bad are just ideas that we humans created, and to say it is good or bad isnt really describing what really happened. Sure, people died, but everybody is going to die eventually, and when you live on the coast in an area that’s known for volcanoes and earthquakes, could you honestly say that you couldn’t see this possibly happening? We live in a world of danger, nobody is truly safe from anything, and we have to just get used to this idea.

Plus, pearl harbor happened because America antagonized japan until the point where they had to defend themselves. America began world war 2 because war was profitable, and got away with making it look like they were totally innocent and justified to go around killing people.
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Jus sayin

So by this logic, my facebook 10 years or so back woulda been > 9/11 Karma = remember Hiroshima..and the Marshall Islands, Panama, Iraq (Desert Storm), Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia..
Psdhart

The Japanese should be responding, “Do any of you remember Katrina?”
Or the Native Americans? Millions died
Psdhart

I saw idiocracy too, I know what you men
There was actually a discussion on IMDB regarding the rise of idiocy at large
Cynical_About_Humanity

TBH, if something similar happened in Germany, there’s probably an equal minority in the UK, who would spew out the same about the blitzes, holocaust, etc, etc…
MRadclyffe

Could that be the same 90% who don’t own a passport?
MRadclyffe

Humankind – whatever happened to that? Humans per se are really starting to bum me out.
T.G.

I guess the British government had their payback for ww2… the Bombing of Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne in February 1945 in Germany…
T.G.

Sure it was bad karma for Pearl Harbour *head-shaking*
And the 9/11 was bad karma for the Americans for Vietnam, Hiroshima, the genocide of the Native Americans, slavery of African-Native Americans…

Every country had done terrible things… the whole world has… so what… should the whole world be destroyed?! Maybe this happen in 2012 or later in the future…
T.G.

Sure it was bad karma for Pearl Harbour *head-shaking*
And the 9/11 was bad karma for the Americans for Vietnam, Hiroshima, the genocide of the Native Americans, slavery of African-Native Americans…

Every country had done terrible things… the whole world has… so what… should the whole world be destroyed?! Maybe this could happen in 2012 or later in the future…
BozoDel

well, the US government was trying to create some fakes http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_internet77.htm
Shaun D

I’m amazed how many Americans talk about karma, a philosophy that primarily comes from India and contradicts the beliefs of Christianity, and then use it to judge others ‘after’ they’ve suffered, which is also a contradiction. I’m only using Christianity as being the most common religion in the US, and in no way suggesting people of Christian faith aren’t generally nice people. But come on, you can’t pick and choose aspects of any faith in order to justify you’re inability to show compassion. Sympathy is free, what’s the harm?

T.G. this is more of a reply to the topic rather than directly to your comment. I agree with what you’ve said. Though I remember speaking to a Guatemalan shaman once, who said 2012 wouldn’t be an apocalypse, but when we change our relationship and understanding of water. Having seen the events of this year so far, I’d say he could be right.
Shaun D

I’m amazed how many Americans talk about karma, a philosophy that primarily comes from India and contradicts the beliefs of Christianity, and then use it to judge others ‘after’ they’ve suffered, which is also a contradiction. I’m only using Christianity as being the most common religion in the US, and in no way suggesting people of Christian faith aren’t generally nice people. But come on, you can’t pick and choose aspects of any faith in order to justify you’re inability to show compassion. Sympathy is free, what’s the harm?

T.G. this is more of a reply to the topic rather than directly to your comment. I agree with what you’ve said. Though I remember speaking to a Guatemalan shaman once, who said 2012 wouldn’t be an apocalypse, but when we change our relationship and understanding of water. Having seen the events of this year so far, I’d say he could be right.
calm_sea

The only thing worse than stupid people posting shit on the internet is smart people wasting their time reading it.
Retribution

Thats just what i was thinking. karma works both ways
Mattvee

Why would you have to say that they are from the south. It’s funny that you used that word to describe them and in the same sentence you were being a bigot yourself. “from the south” implies that you think all people from the south are like that, or that the larger population are like that anyways.
I get what you were trying to say but choose your words a little more carefully next time.

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