# Facebook Meme: Pearl Harbor Payback is a Bitch! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 14, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663 "2011-03-14T15:47:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/1 "2011-03-14T15:47:30Z")
I get that this is just a sampling of random assholes on Facebook, but still…the earthquake and Tsunami are payback for Pearl Harbor!!! Fucking Pearl Harbor, from 70 years and at least three generations ago? ?And by the pictures it isn’t as if this is grumpy old farts who haven’t gotten over the war, it is grumpy young aasholes who probably are whinging cause they shut down some game servers in Japan. Seriously, these people are pathetic. [![](https://i.imgur.com/cnWV2.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/cnWV2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/2 "2011-03-14T15:49:41Z")
I’m willing to go on record as saying that I don’t think Japan deserved this devastating earthquake. There, I said it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/3 "2011-03-14T15:57:29Z")
Wait, so what were Hiroshima and Nagasaki supposed to be payback for, failing to apply for statehood when Commodore Perry showed up? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/4 "2011-03-14T16:05:14Z")
But just like the birthers, there is NO RACISM in the comments of any of those people. They’re just, like, asking questions! No statement can possibly be racist if it has a question mark at the end of it… right? ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/5 "2011-03-14T16:24:02Z")
Shit like that is exactly why I deleted my facebook page. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/6 "2011-03-14T16:28:45Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’m willing to go on record as saying that I don’t think Japan deserved this devastating earthquake. There, I said it. But do they deserve to be raped? Why is it so hard for you to come right out and say they don’t? And I can already hear the criticisms— why do you bring that up in this thread, **VT**? I’ll be accused of being “snarky” and a “shit-stirrer” just because I DARE to affirm that the Japanese don’t deserve post-earthquake-and-tsunami rape. Well, it’s obvious that the pro-rape mentality is still alive and well, isn’t it? A long time ago I resolved to stop reading threads that aren’t about rape, because everyone dances around the issue and doesn’t mention it, which is just another way to blame the victims, isn’t it? Out of sight, out of mind? Well, FUCK that. Raping Japanese people is a CRIME. FULL STOP. As long as there are still people like you who ONLY want to focus on the earthquake, because evidently raping Japanese people is “A-OK,” we have a long, long way to go. I will \*NOT \*be silenced! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/7 "2011-03-14T16:43:33Z")
I bet those people felt exactly the same way about 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/8 "2011-03-14T16:45:21Z")
Good to see the work on the earthquake machine progressing well. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/9 "2011-03-14T16:45:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > But do they deserve to be raped? Why is it so hard for you to come right out and say they don’t? > > And I can already hear the criticisms— why do you bring that up in this thread, **VT**? I’ll be accused of being “snarky” and a “shit-stirrer” just because I DARE to affirm that the Japanese don’t deserve post-earthquake-and-tsunami rape. Well, it’s obvious that the pro-rape mentality is still alive and well, isn’t it? > > A long time ago I resolved to stop reading threads that aren’t about rape, because everyone dances around the issue and doesn’t mention it, which is just another way to blame the victims, isn’t it? Out of sight, out of mind? Well, FUCK that. Raping Japanese people is a CRIME. FULL STOP. > > As long as there are still people like you who ONLY want to focus on the earthquake, because evidently raping Japanese people is “A-OK,” we have a long, long way to go. I will \*NOT \*be silenced! But you should have seen the way they were dressed! ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/10 "2011-03-14T16:46:35Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > But do they deserve to be raped? Why is it so hard for you to come right out and say they don’t? > > And I can already hear the criticisms— why do you bring that up in this thread, **VT**? I’ll be accused of being “snarky” and a “shit-stirrer” just because I DARE to affirm that the Japanese don’t deserve post-earthquake-and-tsunami rape. Well, it’s obvious that the pro-rape mentality is still alive and well, isn’t it? > > A long time ago I resolved to stop reading threads that aren’t about rape, because everyone dances around the issue and doesn’t mention it, which is just another way to blame the victims, isn’t it? Out of sight, out of mind? Well, FUCK that. Raping Japanese people is a CRIME. FULL STOP. > > As long as there are still people like you who ONLY want to focus on the earthquake, because evidently raping Japanese people is “A-OK,” we have a long, long way to go. I will \*NOT \*be silenced! All anyone said was that the Japanese CHOSE to live in any earthquake zone. Nobody said that they are responsible for the earthquake or tsunami. ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/11 "2011-03-14T16:49:13Z")
Pearl Harbor didn’t even come to mind when the earthquake and tsunami hit on Friday, and didn’t still after that until I came across that picture in another thread about Japan over the weekend. It didn’t occur to me that people would even hold a sort of grudge that they would mention it, whether they’re trying to be funny or not. I guess it’s like the Westboro church members who can find anything in a person’s life to disqualify them, in Westboro’s collective mind, from a peaceful life (or death). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/12 "2011-03-14T16:50:43Z")
Since very few people alive now in Japan were alive in 1942, and even fewer now alive were involved in planning or executing the Pearl Harbor attack, the only way today’s Japanese citizens’ misfortune could be considered “payback” is if you hold a grudge for a very long time and think that children should be held responsible for parents’ actions. And no one does that except the biblical God. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/13 "2011-03-14T17:08:22Z")
If the Japanese didn’t want the vengeful undersea earthquake God to rape the fault line, they shouldn’t have been making all that tentacle porn. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/14 "2011-03-14T17:11:32Z")
I wonder what those “It’s payback!” folks will think about their future when prospective employers check their social media sites, notice those posts, and then decide they don’t need such morons in their employ. Ah, a bright side to it! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/15 "2011-03-14T17:16:30Z")
If karma’s real, like these people seem to be implying, then they’re in for a hell of a payback as well. I hope so. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/16 "2011-03-14T17:22:48Z")
Wow, I am losing what faith I had in humanity. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/17 "2011-03-14T17:30:40Z")
OP, where did you find that, and who compiled it? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/18 "2011-03-14T17:31:00Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Wow, I am losing what faith I had in humanity. Is that because they’re assholes or because they don’t understand cause and effect? ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/19 "2011-03-14T17:42:10Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > But do they deserve to be raped? Why is it so hard for you to come right out and say they don’t? > > And I can already hear the criticisms— why do you bring that up in this thread, **VT**? I’ll be accused of being “snarky” and a “shit-stirrer” just because I DARE to affirm that the Japanese don’t deserve post-earthquake-and-tsunami rape. Well, it’s obvious that the pro-rape mentality is still alive and well, isn’t it? > > A long time ago I resolved to stop reading threads that aren’t about rape, because everyone dances around the issue and doesn’t mention it, which is just another way to blame the victims, isn’t it? Out of sight, out of mind? Well, FUCK that. Raping Japanese people is a CRIME. FULL STOP. > > As long as there are still people like you who ONLY want to focus on the earthquake, because evidently raping Japanese people is “A-OK,” we have a long, long way to go. I will \*NOT \*be silenced! YOu’re a lying sack of shit who can’t read, can’t think, and thinks rape is funny, as are people who take it seriously. And you’re a coward. HAR HAR you inbred asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663/20 "2011-03-14T17:47:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > OP, where did you find that, and who compiled it? I got it of one of the commenters on Gawker, but a quick Google search of “Pearl Harbor Facebook” I found this from the [Village Voice](http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/03/facebook_imbeci.php). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-meme-pearl-harbor-payback-is-a-bitch/574663.md?page=2)