World Cup Facebook Status Updates: Remember Pearl Harbor / Bomb Japan / Here Comes Another Tsunami

The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup championship match between the United States and Japan will be held on Sunday in Germany. A lot of American soccer fans have posted Facebook status updates expressing their support for their team. Most are good-natured displays of excitement about the upcoming match. However, it would appear that quite a few people have written cringe-worthy updates that call on team USA to get revenge for Pearl Harbor, drop bombs on Japan, or unleash a new tsunami on the Japanese.

Here is a sampling of ugly Facebook status updates from some nationalistic Americans [found via the OpenBook.org‘s search function]:

And that’s just what’s been posted so far. Unfortunately, another tide of stupidity will be probably be unleashed upon Facebook on the actual day of the championship match.

[hat tip to Hamachiman]

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http://twitter.com/Rhi_R Rhiannon Rees

You are disgusting – DISGUSTING – people.
http://twitter.com/Rhi_R Rhiannon Rees

PS. I really do, genuinely, feel sorry for those American citizens who are tarred with the idiocy brush just because vile people like this ^ live in their country.
Piglet

What did you expect? If you keep looking at any social network or forum (even this blog!) for sufficient amount of time (usually not very long), you will find stupid, racist, disgusting comments. Same in US, Japan, France, India, or any other country. It’s like trying to understand Japanese opinion through 2chan. Not worth making a blog post (the same way it wouldn’t be worth making a blog post about 2chan comments).
Tokyo Joe

If the U.S. men’s or women’s soccer team plays Vietnam in the FIFA World cup finals what will the above people say?
Anonymous

So many stupid yanks on here. An education would do you lot some good
Hybrid Glamour

Ugh, shit like this makes me ashamed to be an American. Please just shut your mouth Midwest hicks.
http://twitter.com/MekaLashwn Tameka Young

WOW ! Some Americans make good Americans like me look bad!
http://twitter.com/MekaLashwn Tameka Young

Not All of us are like that!

World Cup Facebook Status Updates: Remember Pearl Harbor / Bomb Japan / Here Comes Another Tsunami

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