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Karma & the Japan Earthquake

As the world watches the earthquake relieve efforts in Japan, there are still a lot of horrible people out there who are saying that Japan deserved what it got. Over at Tumblr, somebody has set up the Karma Japan blog to document such activity on Twitter.

Here are a few examples:

Meanwhile, on YouTube Japan, a video quoting some insensitive English tweets has made it into the most-viewed ranking:

And, while we’re on the topic of horrible people, here are a couple more links about morons who said the quake is divine punishment or karma:

Idiotic nutcase Glenn Beck has called the earthquake a “message from God.”
Korean megachurch pastor David Yonggi Cho has said that the earthquake was “God’s warning” to Japan.

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34 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - March 16, 2011 at 2:28 pm

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http://www.archaenon.com Archaenon

You know what, it always takes a tragedy to bring out the worst in people, and quite honestly I saw this stupidity coming from a mile away ( look at all the NZ, Christchurch jokes the day after , or the Haiti ones ).

I think the most annoying this is that it’s Holy-Rollers, Nutjobs, Rightwingers, various religious crazies and generally uninformed people spewing out random stuff without thinking of how it affects the current situation.

Don’t spew nonsense when it’s not needed. That WNBA player who basically said Japan deserved this via God, supposedly apologized in a roundabout way and then lectured someone on being derogatory after the fact.

It’s like, please shut up.

kanoe81

You forgot about the whale brigade. I don’t think those groups overlap, except in the Nutjobs department.

JeffreyJack

American morons are no different from their international brethren. Better to focus on the deep concern and anguish we feel for our Japanese friends and family. As America and the entire world watches we keep you in our thoughts. We know you will survive this and we’ll be there to help in whatever way we can.

http://witzl.blogspot.com/ MaryWitzl

Their name is legion and they are everywhere. Idiots without borders.

Mr. USA

It’s funny how these Christians are claiming that it’s karma (a concept from Indian relgions).

Anyways, I’m sure Japanese people don’t give a single fuck about what these people have to say, so neither should we. It’s nice to see that these dipshits are being exposed though.

http://www.billowykimono.com Senor Science

I’ve personally been having a lot of fun naming and shaming them on my blog. Asides from helping to organize a JETAA charity fundraiser it’s my way of giving back to Japan and helping them out.

If you find people harping about Pearl Harbor on Openbook that are dumb enough to list their employer you should notify their bosses. I had a friend do that and he already received word back from one person’s company that they’re going to place them under review.

Mr. USA

“If you find people harping about Pearl Harbor on Openbook that are dumb enough to list their employer you should notify their bosses.”

Great idea!
jcpb

Facebook, compromising careers since (insert FB birth year here)

KDog

for the younger kids who you can figure out where they go to school- (you can figure it out through where their friends go to school too)- send a note to their principal. tell the politely about what the student has done then ask them to help the young person out and let them know that comments like that will likely impact their future employment prospects.
ZZ

Actually, it’s more funny than that.

Karma
- a concept from Indian religions
- incorporated into Japanese culture centuries ago
- almost certainly picked up in American by the various flirtations with Japanese culture throughout the late 70′s, 80′s, and through the mid 90′s

Comment

“- almost certainly picked up in American by the various flirtations with Japanese culture throughout the late 70’s, 80’s, and through the mid 90’s”

Yeah, because they almost certainly couldn’t have picked up this concept directly from their immigrants from India. They almost certainly didn’t pick it up from their long term ally the UK who has had ‘various flirtations’ with India either.

http://facebook.com/vernonreaper vernonreaper

If karma was real then

US Oil Spill on gulf mexico-> Invading Middle east for oil, so god made the oil spill to warn the americans.
Katrina Hurricane-> 1992 l.a. riot, store were robbed and burned, god punished them*
Churchchrist earthquake-> Interupting whale hunt and hate speech,*well it’s close to australia anyway*
Haiti earthquake-> Too much violence, god shake them a little bit, told them to stop
Twin Towers-> controversy, but god (islam) was a little jealous and he told his fellow to blow it up
California burning-> smoking kills, nobody listen then flame took california.
Obama president and the nobel peace price-> bad economy, socialist, conspiracy etc. etc., god thinks obama should not have the nobel peace price so he told the christians.

There is no such thing as karma. It’s nature, the plate moves. That’s why the land moves to different place. The president getting blame that he did not do and reward that he did not do.

By the way, the united states took hawaii and never gave back to natives. Same goes for native americans. But, war is war. Greed and power we are live in. If god was real, nothing that would happen.

Take an example of neil armstrong. God forbbid human going out of space. So nasa apollos keep blasting in pieces when they reach or not reach the sky. So they fake it, and told the russian that they beat them. But that my opinion about man on moon is fake because technology was not that great in that time. Even if they made it on the moon, how the hell did they blast way back in earth? sounds like a children book to me.

http://www.billowykimono.com Senor Science

Lay off the weed my friend.

vernonreaper

it aint weed, it’s common sense. Maybe a little joke too.

Mz

a good public shaming is just whats some of these people need. where’s the stocks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks, in case you’re confused) when you need them?
KDog

There seems to be two crowds who are at the forefront of this hate:

1: the hip hop crowd. (all races)
2. the greenpeace crowd

they’ve really shown their true colors.
george

if it’s karma, chicken & cows will punish everyone soon. has US gotten used to planes crashing into buildings? please.. how can people say such thing.

Cabirus

Bird flu and mad cow disease ring a bell?

Just kidding, I don’t believe in karma.

Spencer

These tweets are tasteless and irresponsible. It’s obvious these insensitive pieces of shit are out of touch with reality.
A

I want to kill them all.
Nemotype

confusing justice with vendetta is typical of the worst people of this world
JS

The stupid, it burns.

jcpb

The goggles, they do nothing.

kg

These people are so terrible. I just want to say that the courage and dignity that the Japanese people are showing in the face of this calamity are an inspiration to me and to many others around the world. I am convinced that your country, which is so beautiful, will recover and shine.
hl

Some dolphin guy was monitoring dolphin hunting and was in a town where the tsunami hit. He recounted seeing a woman he could not help screaming in the water, and said “she was in my mind, a representative of what was happening”. I wonder if he realizes how that sounds… In general he was attempting to sound sensitive, but I can’t stomach hearing someone talk about a person like that. (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/03/16/gutierrez.quake.photo.surv.cnn?hpt=C2)
Evandro

Here in BRAZIL we have a lot of that kind of morons to.

jcpb

Ignorance shines brighter than fire in times of crisis.

japarican

some people are just stupid A$$.
NONEOFMYBEESWAX

So, 1 out of 4 of these inhuman idiots knows what happen in 1945 after we were attacked at PH. How we in a display of animasity dropped two Atomic Bombs killing over 150,000 Japan citizens(which were not combatants….Anyone heard of he geneva Convention). However this same moron(yeah, I let him go up a level for at least knowing a little HX) still is so fucking inhuman as to comment that “Japs should be used to nuclear.”

If that weren’t enough, there were to so called “Christians” stating the same inhuman and UnChristian solans. I mean I can’t really blame the Korean Pastor(OK, I can) given Japan and Korea’s past, but too call it a Sign from GOD? Damn, the atheist are going to have a ball on this one. <–not to say that I'm religious, but it's obvious what next.

If you check out the side vids next to the video featuring one of these idiots you'll see a lot of SeaShepard support. I think these are mainly just a bunch of scrabbled brained groupies from GreenBully's…sorry Peace. Not to say that it's not a member or two from Green Peace( given the activities of the SeaShepard).

Regardless of their views they could at least grieve for another human being:^(

Comment

The Geneva Convention you are referring to (protection of non-combatant civilians) was adopted in 1949.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

Kono

Karma? Wow…these people should stop eating meat altogether, dumb.
Tenderloin

With respect, I wish you’d stop posting about the people making comments like these. Please, just let them be. I don’t believe that introducing them into our field of vision offers any benefit to us. Thank you.
Megan

This is so stupid!! Did these peoples “god” write a list of what animals could be eaten and couldn’t be eaten? Are whales more important than a persons life? These people are illogical!!

Doesn’t the Bible say don’t eat pork? Should most all of us rot in hell? Damn! LOL
RK

Attention seeking trolls will do whatever to be noticed. Best to ignore and move on. Nothing to see here.

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