Poll: What the hell is this?

[Warforger]

I would say that they're asking the wrong people for an apology. Modern Japan did nothing to them. Tell them to find the ones responsible and demand it from them.

However, the modern government is responsible for apologizing for the past government, we see this when the Pope apologized for the Crusades or when JFK apolgozied to the Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps during WWII. If at the very least it issued an official apology the people afflicted would be happy, while instead they refuse and even add insult to injury by teaching their students that it wasn't as bad as it really was.

 

[Warforger]

I would say that they're asking the wrong people for an apology. Modern Japan did nothing to them. Tell them to find the ones responsible and demand it from them.

Why does the modern government bear any responsibility for the past government? Is not a government merely a body of people? And if a government itself is guilty of something, I would suppose that the responsibility would be transferred to its members, as a "group" as a concept cannot actually bear responsibility or have guilt. Only people can have responsibility or have guilt. The people then, that committed the Japanese atrocities are still the only ones responsible. The current people in charge of Japan had nothing to do with it.

Because they're the most recent form, they should at least apologize in behalf of the past government is basically what I'm saying since no one else really makes a difference.

oh yah and you wanted this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Society_for_History_Textbook_Reform

 

[Crow T. Robot]

There are idiots everywhere.
It has nothing to do with America.
Just douche-bags in general.

It's true. Ignorance is not just American, but we do dish out more than our fair share.

 

[zehydra]

I would say that they're asking the wrong people for an apology. Modern Japan did nothing to them. Tell them to find the ones responsible and demand it from them.

Why does the modern government bear any responsibility for the past government? Is not a government merely a body of people? And if a government itself is guilty of something, I would suppose that the responsibility would be transferred to its members, as a "group" as a concept cannot actually bear responsibility or have guilt. Only people can have responsibility or have guilt. The people then, that committed the Japanese atrocities are still the only ones responsible. The current people in charge of Japan had nothing to do with it.

Because they're the most recent form, they should at least apologize in behalf of the past government is basically what I'm saying since no one else really makes a difference.

oh yah and you wanted this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Society_for_History_Textbook_Reform

Ok, I'll grant that the government shouldn't downplay atrocities committed by past governments. The modern government is guilty of that at least, and that is one thing which the modern government should be expected to apologize to.

But why apologize on behalf of the past government? What difference does it make if they do it, or I myself apologize to the Korean women on the old government's behalf?

 

[zehydra]

There are idiots everywhere.
It has nothing to do with America.
Just douche-bags in general.

It's true. Ignorance is not just American, but we do dish out more than our fair share.

how can anyone dish out ignorance?

Ignorance has nothing to do with being a douche-bag. There are plenty of educated douch-bags.

 

[badgersprite]

You're absolutely right, OP. This is the stupidest thing I have ever read and I feel stupid for reading it.

Faith in humanity fading.

 

[Voidrunner]

That made me physically sick reading the sheer stupidity and lack of empathy shown by these people, the war was bad to everyone. I'm not sure I can understand what compels people to carry a grudge so far especially the "Peaceful Christians" who claimed God went and smited Japan for Pearl Harbour. Bad business all round in my opinion.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Americans are typically like bullies; any injury they take as a personal insult. They dish out the pain arrogantly enough yet bawl and whine when they have to take it.

It's kind of funny, didn't the Americans in that link do what you're doing now? Judging an entire country for the actions of a few people?

That said, did anyone else find the top right post in the first link funny? I certainly did.

I don't blame them for holding a grudge, I doubt the Japanese liked America bombing them, and they probably hold a grudge the same as many people near Pearl Harbor did.

 

[Spirultima]

"Ignorance is a curse that the gods themselves struggle with in vain" - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

 

[Vausch]

I hope I never meet these people in reality, I'd be too tempted to break their fingers.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

My wish is to never meet those kind of people ever, other wise I'd feel the need to punch them in the face. Pearl Harbor, really? That's how you justify hundreds of dead people, and thousands that are suffering?

I...need to lie down, my head hurts.

 

[FalloutJack]

Stupidity is universal. Some people have a bigger dose about them than others.

 

[Littlee300]

Americans are typically like bullies; any injury they take as a personal insult. They dish out the pain arrogantly enough yet bawl and whine when they have to take it.

But meh. All countries are the same. The second the bombs fall on home soil its white-flag waving and talk of the rules of war.

Notice the U in harbour. Americans don' spell it like that. Notice your stupid hate comment silly misinformed comment.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

American brand stupid strikes again.

Good job, guys!

 

[Blow_Pop]

Americans are typically like bullies; any injury they take as a personal insult. They dish out the pain arrogantly enough yet bawl and whine when they have to take it.

But meh. All countries are the same. The second the bombs fall on home soil its white-flag waving and talk of the rules of war.

Notice the U in harbour. Americans don' spell it like that. Notice your stupid hate comment silly misinformed comment.

If you're going to correct my spelling sweetheart, its 'Americans don'T', not 'Americans don'.'

If it was a hate comment, I'd wax eloquent about how their country is one of the worst to live in because they are all fat fatty fatensteins, or because their obnoxious gung-ho attitude is the one of the reasons the world is in a state of near constant warfare. Plenty of other Americans saw my post and not one was offended, so quit playing the injured party.

He has a point. Besides he tends to vent to me about my country directly ;] but then I do the same.

Americans are typically like bullies; any injury they take as a personal insult. They dish out the pain arrogantly enough yet bawl and whine when they have to take it.

But meh. All countries are the same. The second the bombs fall on home soil its white-flag waving and talk of the rules of war.

Notice the U in harbour. Americans don' spell it like that. Notice your stupid hate comment silly misinformed comment.

Actually some of us do. *an American who does spell harbour with a "u" as well as a few other words differently*

OT: Also, all I will say is a lot of Americans are misinformed idiots. Not all but a lot yes.

 

[Littlee300]

Americans are typically like bullies; any injury they take as a personal insult. They dish out the pain arrogantly enough yet bawl and whine when they have to take it.

But meh. All countries are the same. The second the bombs fall on home soil its white-flag waving and talk of the rules of war.

Notice the U in harbour. Americans don' spell it like that. Notice your stupid hate comment silly misinformed comment.

If you're going to correct my spelling sweetheart, its 'Americans don'T', not 'Americans don'.'

If it was a hate comment, I'd wax eloquent about how their country is one of the worst to live in because they are all fat fatty fatensteins, or because their obnoxious gung-ho attitude is the one of the reasons the world is in a state of near constant warfare. Plenty of other Americans saw my post and not one was offended, so quit playing the injured party.

I wasn't correcting your grammar. Europeans spell harbour with a U that was the point...

edited for grammar
I didn't know there were certain terms of what anti-american hate comments must consist of. How foolish of my uneducated self!

 

[NightRavenGSA]

This my friends is why I hate america, and why I'm going to the UK see ya a******s (please note this isn't directed at ALL americans some of us are awesome [see Mark Dayton], but most of us.... well there's a reason I have my profile showing that I'm in the UK)

 

[Blow_Pop]

This my friends is why I hate america, and why I'm going to the UK see ya a******s (please note this isn't directed at ALL americans some of us are awesome [see Mark Dayton], but most of us.... well there's a reason I have my profile showing that I'm in the UK)

I....I love you.....However for now I will keep my profile as American until I actually do move. Not just visit.