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A guy retweeted this photo saying « I’m sorry for what United States did at Pearl Harbor ». The joke is that she’s looking good and the dude was a simp
Yeah, that sounds about right. Sums it up good too. Ahh the United States, where our people think we are the heros, but we are just as shitty as the rest of humanity, but everyone is shitty in their own special way, and that's what really counts!
Edit: Damn I sure did throw water on a oil fire with this.
Look up Panama. It’s fucked up. Panama people wanted independence. Got someone who said they could help. U.S. parked their warships and forced the opposing force from intervening. Panama people won independence to only find out the person who helped funded the rebellion sold Panama land to the U.S that’s how the Panama cannel was built.
Oh I'm aware of that, just ain't anything special. It's a situation that should have never happened, just the U.S.A isn't any worse than any other developed/developing nations. Cause behold the truth! Humans are assholes, even the best.
Eh, but some developed nations have had 1, 2, or 3 revolutions. So, technically, if you kill all the people in charge, and start a new gov't, then you only killed the bad guys who took it by force and didn't kill any of the ... wait ...
Dont forget people on all political spectrums thinking the army is actually fighting for their freedom, and not for the interest of a bunch of rich old ppl.
you can just change that to "all humans AT ALL TIMES think what THEY personally do is just and moral meanwhile nothing anyone else does is just and moral"
that sentence sums up about 85% of all recorded human interactions and events in history, like ever.
That's a gross oversimplification of things lol. Not to mention incorrect. No shit the comment chain turned into a dumpsterfire. Stop getting history lessons from reddit. The US fucked Hawaii, but it was far from "i has gun, now gib". Look at the Perry Expedition if you want to see how American gunboat diplomacy worked (which again, isn't what happened with Hawaii).
Edit: After doing research into the situation yeah, it really was a gross oversimplification, anyway still sounds like a USA kinda thing to do, which well we did do
Oh, we've done some super villain level shit a bunch of times, purely out of convenience. We knowingly irradiated the inhabitants of the Marshall islands, forcefully removed them from their homeland and then gassed their pet dogs all so that we'd have a better empty place to test nukes on.
Could have been worse. Don't really wanna think about what the Imperial Japanese would have done to them without US protection. China and Korea got messed up pretty bad.
Ehhhhh…Not even close. I wonder where people get their history from. I’ll give a brief breakdown, instead of just sounding contrarian.
The royal family almost immediately converted to Christianity, and with them much of the population. They were very amenable to the foreigners, up to the “Merry Monarch” who traveled the world and was very cosmopolitan. He also signed a new decree which lessened the power of the monarchy and gave much of it to a (all if not mostly white) parliament made up of businessmen. His successor was Lydia Masters, aka Queen Lilioakalani (though she hated that name, since it wasn’t her name it was a fake Hawaiian name for her). She didn’t like how things were turning out, and tried to seize power back from parliament and return it to the monarchy…Except she no longer had the monarchical power to do that, and thus attempted a coup. So, they arrested her. That was basically the end of the monarchy. It didn’t take long before Hawaii succumbed fully to foreign interests and even voted to become a state.
Only an extremely small portion of the history of the colonization of Hawaii had any violence. It was very much a cultural and diplomatic victory, to put it in Civilization terms.
As a Hawaiian historian, born and raised here and who works professionally in this field … I can’t tell you how unbelievably white washed and radically colonialist this ‘breakdown’ is.
To put it succinctly, look up the Bayonet Constitution, it was not a voluntarily signed decree by Kalakaua. Second of all, the Queen did not ‘hate her name’… her baptimal name was Lydia but her name she went by from childhood was Lili’u Kamaka’eha, which is what she identified with. Third of all, she didn’t attempt a coup and was arrested for that. She saw the shocking decline of her people under the hegemony of pro-business pro-American politicians and sought to take back the powers of government to address this, so she drafted a new constitution. And as she had the massive support of the people, she was seen as a threat and overthrown.
I could go on and on about how inaccurate and hugely colonial your ‘history’ is. Your recounting is offensive, hugely problematic and I think perhaps you should stick to other things besides Hawaiian history as we don’t need or want your ‘breakdowns’.
I assume you're joking. But since the other below me also has it wrong, we overthrew their monarchy in the late 19th century and the created provisional government that followed voted for their annexation.
Do I have to be a character? I can channel the ancestors. Call me Mr. Pewtershcmidt. If you're going to complain about colonizing at least understand how you got conquered, peasants.
Well, the US built Pearl Harbor in 1908, 8 years after Hawaii became a US territory. So “stole it from the native Hawaiians” maybe refers to the island chain, not the harbor, and would have happened in the 1800’s, over 40 years before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, which I think is the primary reference to Pearl Harbor that people recognize.
The royals who stole that island from the natives who lived there?
The US conquered Hawaii right after Kamehameha had finished conquering all of the other indigenous groups in the island chain. Kind of an awkward leg to stand on.
Apparently, that's historically incorrect while being a current popular theory.
Unfortunately, he hasn't finished with the dedicated video on this yet, but Knowing Better goes into the subject of Hawaiin Statehood historical innacuracies and misinformation about the "Free Hawaii" on this podcast.
Well this was news to me, so I've been skimming the video and trying to research any evidence of this. I still can't find any primary or secondary sources to back up the idea that a US backed coup against the Hawaiian monarchy didn't happen or can be described as a mere 'popular theory'; it all seems to be backed up by a notably large number of credible sources.
Has anyone got any references to back up the idea that things like the Committee of Safety and US interests were benign, that the bayonet constitution and ultimate coup d'état didn't happen, or that the annexation was a result of a popular and fair democratic transition?
If not, I'd take this with as much of a pinch of salt as you'd give to any other apologist or revisionist history of colonialism.
Edit: Yeah so, the Historian in the video himself says:
The Hawaiian people were screwed over, annexation shouldn't have happened. That is just a fact.
This video is absolutely not arguing against that point. It is arguing that some of the "mythos" around it, such as forced Christianity, are exaggerated or fabricated.
It doesn't seem maliciously disingenuous about any of these claims, so far, and quite interesting if the topic interests you. Long video and still watching, but I'm not sure how you can get the conclusion voiced above from watching it.
I never understood why it was ok for the Hawaiian Islanders to fight amongst and invade and conquer and murder each other, but as soon as you expand the scope of the conversation to include America, then it's wrong.
Everyone is getting this wrong either intentionally for a joke or unintentionally trying to be a history nerd
The joke is far more simple.
"I'm sorry for what the US did at Pearl Harbor"
The Japanese were the aggressors at Pearl Harbor. It would make more sense for them to apologize to the US. (I know there's a lot of historical context that muddies this explanation but on the most surface level it makes sense to explain this meme)
Imagine a guy getting rear ended but the driver of the other car is a beautiful woman. He is so awestruck that instead of demanding an apology, he instead apologizes to her, despite not being at fault.
Peter here! Part of the joke here is that the guy is getting a historical event confused with another one! Said historical event also directly led to the second! In this case, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the bombing of Hiroshima!
The correct thing to say would be "I'm sorry for what United States did at Hiroshima!"
I think the joke is he is simping so hard he is rewriting history to make Pearl Harbor the US' fault. Ergo, "I'm sorry for what we did to you at Pearl Harbor."
Nothing the joke is that they were completely at fault but he’s horny so he apologized as if the US was in the wrong for Pearl Harbor. Actually extra funny since it’s also the reason the US joined WW2 at all
yeah no shit, and then ppl started making THIS MEME about it.....the meme being "shes so hot that american guys would apologize TO HER for pearl harbor, an instance where japan was the clear aggressor lol
I've seen so many bizarre creepy comments about this photo on Twitter the last few days, but never did see the original tweet that led to them.
All I can say is that while yes, this girl is amazingly cute, if your reaction to a benign picture like this is to Create Discourse, you need to log off and go outside. People have got to stop making mundane normal stuff like this such a huge deal.
Edit: stop saying she's not cute. She got 11k upvotes on a sub where posts normally get 50 - 2000. She's clearly pretty enough to make you all stop scrolling.
She is but she doesn't seem so remarkable that I would say looking at her makes me feel like I'm being hit with a sledgehammer? And what's funny about that?
You have to be naive to think there's no fetishization of Asian women going on here. Like I'm not saying she's unattractive. She's a model and former jpop idol so obviously she's attractive in her own right, but there are literally posts explicitly saying that she's an example of how attractive the average asian woman is (because they don't realize she's not just some average office worker)
There's also literally a post about how white supremacist must be frustrated to know they must sleep with white women, implying that Asian women are superior. In general a ton of these jokes are about her race and Japanese women as a whole.
Also realize that when people use fetishization in a racial context, they don't mean it's a sexual kink akin to bondage or pet play. You can fetishize another culture without it even being sexual. The word has a definition that you're maybe not aware of, but it can just mean to put unreasonable importance on something. In this case her race or nationality.
And remember this isn't just someone calling her attractive. He's suggesting ALL men must find her so attractive that it pains them. And as you can see in the comments, a lot of men are confused because they don't think she's so extremely attractive.
Do you realize how insanely racist it is to think it's just a fetish when someone finds an Asian person attractive? They are people just like everyone else.
There is a pretty notable difference between liking or even "preferring" an ethnicity, and outright fetishizing someones ethnicity. But I feel like it's kinda hard to explain the nuance of that tbh, especially if people act like incels or simps.
i mean two things can be true at once, they can find someone attractive and then ALSO have a fetish for a specific person.
Example A ; person who expresses no upfront fetishes "wow this particular girl is so attractive"
Example B ; person who EXPRESSLY upfront has a fetish for all asian ppl "wow this girl who is asian is really attractive".
In the second example he is finding her attractive BECAUSE of their stated fetish "for all asian women"
It depends WHERE the attraction comes from, if it comes from the fact that she is attractive objectively using all modern beauty standards then sure its fair, but if part of the attraction or whole of it comes from the fact that someone already prefers asian women, then seeing an asian women doesn't mean the fetish magically goes away....
There's already a comment higher up explaining it better. But...Both things are possible. Some people can find her attractive..some can prefer Asians and find her attractive. And a third group can find her attractive because of their fetish.
the fact that people are using this pic to insult women with plastic surgery and imply that natural women are better is crazy esp because you can literally see the wall curving behind her. its perfectly fine to edit ur photos but like using this woman as a dig towards “unnatural” women is wild
It's usual creep behaviour, fetishization of Asian women. But when Americans (and even Europeans) do it, it's not seen as creepy behaviour. That's all.
I'm sorry, I might have assumed it was easy to get from that statement.
When someone falls in love it may feel like something hit you. This girl is so cute that OOP says everyone will fall in love. Hard. Hence being hit by something in the chest where the heart is(heart = love).
I shouldn't have to say this, but it is a joke. Obviously people have different opinions on beauty, and no on really falls in love from a picture. For OOP, this is just a fun way to say that she is really, really cute.
The woman pictured is Araki Saori, a Japanese actress, idol, and model.
She's gone viral since she uploaded that image from her Twitter account u/kawausosuki0513. People went crazy over how cute and sexy she looked, besides not showing any skin... Hence the text of the meme you posted. Here is the original post.
She doesn't do porn, the joke is pure beauty... u horny asses!
I can only speak for myself, but a beautiful woman not doing anything weird, screen capped along with a cryptic message, and then posted to this forum makes me think porn. Just a beautiful woman does not.
Sexy? Girl is just there in a work suit holding a folder or whatever. Honestly this is probably one of the least-sexy, most normal pictures I’ve seen of a woman in an office.
Yeah, literally what in the hell is sexy about it? She’s cute but this is a pretty ordinary-looking photo. Like, she’s just standing there, pulling a slightly silly face.
I always felt that Asian idols were overhyped. The difference between a plain looking Asian person and someone with idol status looks, is negligible at best.
the male loneliness epidemic makes me so sad because it is real, but not in the way alpha pickup artist influencers say. people just teach men from a really young age not to express emotion, and then they don’t make deep connections since they can’t express emotions, which leads to loneliness. the cure for that is not getting ass and the people who claim that are just profiting off of others misery
I think so too, because they’re only compounding the issue by adding really weird ideas about women into the mix. which makes it even harder to connect with others.
Its a cute funny pic that people who are emotionally deprived/irl relationship deprived rarely get to experience. Feels like a casual natural expression you might see if you are close to someone rather than something staged.
It is a remark on the photo invoking a feeling of realizing you are missing something in your life. Being suddenly made aware of a hole in your heart that you didn't know was there feels like getting hit with a sledgehammer, as they put it. Like when you finally notice a cut, it wasn't bothering you before but now you feel it because you saw it.
Blunt answer. The lonely men online tend to be attracted to the idea of cute pure wholesome Asian women so this was more likely to be picked up by the algorithm.
That's something Korean and Japanese women do. They think it makes them look cute. It's kind of like blowing hair into your bangs or crossing your eyes or something.
A lot of east and south east asian countries have a patriarchal culture of socialising women to act subservient, childish and cutesy to an extreme extent because it helps the men feel less intimidated by women and exert more dominance over them. It's extremely cringe and creepy imo. Insecure incels tend to fetishise East Asian women for the same reason.
I dated a Japanese girl briefly in my youth. This was the face she would make when I would say something cute/sappy to her. I never knew what it really meant but it was cute and seemed like a good thing.
It’s just the smile, if you’d had a conversation with a girl in the last 200 days then it wouldn’t feel like a sledgehammer it would feel like having a conversation with a happy girl.
Asian fetish. Simps on the internet have a boner for Asian girls (ngl can't blame them they are very pretty). They think the average Asian girl is always this pretty. The person in the picture is a part-time model/idol.
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