Official: Tom Hanks is a Goddamned Idiot

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/09/tom-hanks-on-wwii-we-wanted-to-annihilate-the-japanese-because-they-were-different/. Hanks has been spewing some political mush for some time now but he's gone completely ape shit stupid with his wide eyed assertions of how Americans, or more specifically, U.S. Marines and other American combat troops regarded the Japanese during the late unpleasantness in the Pacific. Yes, Tom, they didn't care for the Japanese--you see, there were these things called "atrocities" that had been committed by the Japanese and they sort of upset the young men who were sent out to check the Greater Asiatic Co-Prosperity Sphere. Tom, it also might be news to you, but the Japanese were (and in many ways still are) highly racist in their attitudes toward the occidentals--you can read up on that between lunches in L.A. Finally, Mr. Hanks, it's never a great idea to judge people of a prior era based on your own current sensibilities--chances are, you yourself will look pretty damn foolish when viewed fifty or sixty years from now. It might surprise you, but a lot of people that you probably think highly (Lincoln, FDR, Castro, etc.) had some ideas toward other races that would shock or at least throw you off kilter at your next Scientology confab.

If my old man were still alive, this kind of shit would absolutely leave him snot slinging mad and pretty much ruin any chance of him viewing, "The Pacific" or anything having to do with Hanks or fellow limp wrister, Spielberg. I knew him and a lot of other guys who fought in the Pacific and they hated the Japanese because the Japanese had decided to hate us and proved it by torturing* and killing our guys--they didn't have anything personal against them prior to the war. He didn't have any problem with them afterwards and even liked their cars. Goddamn, Tom, is that so hard to comprehend? I know it doesn't match up to your preconceived notions from the crowd you hang with but you maybe should get out more.

*Torture, meaning cutting off heads, savagely beating people to death, starving them, working them to death as opposed to Hank's torture definition which includes slapping, using bad language, and denying fresh produce and new Korans.