Family Guy Writer Tweets Pearl Harbor Joke In Response To Japanese Earthquake

Bleeding Cool: Entertainment News ^ | March 12, 2011 – 7:54 am | Brendon Connelly

[Behind Liberal Lines]

when a particularly tasteless tweet started rolling around the web last night, and I found out it had been written by Family Guy scriptwriter Alec Sulkin, I wasn’t too surprised. Here’s what he said: "If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google 'Pearl Harbor death toll'”.

This world view, that the citizens of a nation are somehow statistics to be tallied in a historical spreadsheet of deaths, and that there’s somehow a desirable, karmic distribution to be had is absolutely disgusting.

[cabbieguy]

You are absolutly right, just like I am not responsible for what our ancestors did in regards to slavery.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

Sulkin is a flaming idiot and should STFU. He has no standing whatsoever to open up his trap and comment, he never had any skin in that game.

 

I have relatives and friends who were in up-close and personal combat with the Japanese during World War 2. None of them are dancing a jig or high-fiving each other right now - not a one. However, they aren't exactly gushing with sympathy either. There isn't any hate, but what can be described as a distancing of feelings - having the sort of experiences that they went through will do that to a person. It's unfortunate, but true  - there are kinds of wounds that do not, cannot heal.

 

 

 

[jmacusa]

Those who battled the forces of Imperial Japan and those unfortunate to have been ‘’guests’’(prisoners of war) of His Majesty The Emporer have the moral authority to feel as they do towards the Japan they knew and fought. But I could hardly imagine these same men and women today, looking at this disaster, would think that somehow the Japanese of today ‘’deserved’’ this. I know men and women personally who served in the Pacific and I know to a person their hearts would go out to the Japanese for this. Heck, look at those old documentries , one minute our guys are shooting the heck out of the Japs(or Germans) and the next minute there’s an Army medic or a Navy corpsman tending to the enemy wounded. Or ministering to a frightened kid. Americans aren’t savages.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

My point exactly. You have to be able to tame the savages of the world without falling into becoming one yourself. And it's harder to do than people can possibly imagine.

 

 

 

[raccoonradio]

from his twitter page http://twitter.com/thesulk

# If you wanna feel better about the floods in New Jersey, google “MTV’s Jersey Shore”. about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone

# Yesterday death toll = 200. Today = 10 thousand. I am sorry for my insensitive tweet. It’s gone. about 4 hours ago via web

[raccoonradio]

from a search page on twitter, some reaction

ThroneThinker If you wanna feel better about Alec Sulkin’s tweet, google “Alec Sulkin is a f-—face”.

akihirokitamura Don’t worry. Alec Sulkin did not make me hate Americans. I saw a lot of Americans attacking him and that made me love Americans more!

CultStuff Alec Sulkin you are a total bastard. I do hope you suffer some mind-numbing pain for what you said. I also hope you fired from Family Guy.

codesarah RT @wayupnorth: Alec Sulkin (@thesulk) is an American “television writer”?? Some1 inform the little s-— abt Hiroshima & Nagasaki plse.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Tricia Takanawa is not amused...

[Big Bronson]

just like I am not responsible for what our ancestors did in regards to slavery.

Effin' right you're not. How far back do we have to play this? I'm not responsible for what my ancestors did to the Indians OR to the colonists, or what they did to the invading Russians in Sweden, or what they did to the muslims in Spain (although I take a little pride in that) or what they did to the Romans did to the Celts and Germani, or the tribes did to them...

Hell, maybe I want reparations for what the Tharg tribe did to the Ungs.