Racist Assholes Predictably Take To Twitter After U.S. Defeat of Japanese Women's Soccer Team [Racism]

Unsurprising, but still BLERGHHH. Shortly after Nadeshiko Japan, the nation's women's soccer team, lost Thursday's game to the U.S. 2-1, the terms "Jap," "Pearl Harbor" and "Hiroshima" trended on the relentless shit soufflé that is Twitter. And why not? There's no better way to celebrate a victory than namecheck historical war tragedies (literally the opposite of the point of the Olympics uniting the nations of the world, by the way) that occurred at least 40 years before any of the players were even born, right? Right?

The tweets, some of which were collected on the Japan Daily Press, are largely along the lines of "That's for Pearl Harbor," but a few contain references to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ("Haven't felt this good about beating Japan since..." et cetera.) "Long live the greatest country: America" adds one Twitter user— whose existence, ironically, is precisely what might make one question that statement. Go figure!

Last year was no better, apparently: when the Japanese women's soccer team took the World Cup against the U.S. in Germany, Japan Daily Press writer Adam Westlake remembers reading Tweets like: "Japan may have won the World Cup, but the U.S. scored the first two points with Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

So... yeah, WAY TO GO, racists! It's important to make every international event into an ugly and ignorant shitstorm.

'Japan's Olympic soccer loss brings out the Twitter racism' [Japan Daily Press]

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Jerks Are Jerks: The Baios Are Among the Proud Assholes Supporting Chick-Fil-A [Tweet Beat]

Aug 2, 2012 7:30 PM   In this edition of Tweet Beat, Renee and Scott Baio can't get enough crispy bigotry, Questlove is tweeting Amsterdam, Mindy Kaling knows that "Firework" is a great song and please, please stop throwing popcorn at the monkeys.

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Studies Reveal Toddlers Are Smarter, Bigger Assholes Than We Thought [Toddlers]

Toddlers not only can comprehend what is "right" from what is "wrong," but they're also able to understand that a set of rules can apply to one group of people and not another, according to new research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. In one study, 2 and 3-year-old children were able to identify rule violations amongst puppets in a puppet show, specifically regarding behavior.

Another study found that toddlers only enforce game rules within their own language group. The results of the research suggest that these children understand that the expectations of cultural norms are different amongst different groups. Additionally, the study found that toddlers don't need explicit instructions in order to understand that a specific action is a social norm. Instead, they can intuitively pick up on behavioral cues and adults' expectations of them.

So what does this all mean? Well, toddlers are apparently much more socially sophisticated than we'd previously believed. Not only do they know how to act, but they're able to apply that behavior to appropriate contexts and social groups. So when your kid is doing something shitty, like throwing food on the floor or refusing to keep his shoes on in public, it's not because he doesn't know any better — it's because he's a jerk.

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Toddlers understand what is 'right' and 'wrong' far more clearly than we thought [Daily Mail]

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