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Barbenheimer Memes Provoke Angry Backlash in Japan (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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[–] emptyother@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Understandable really.

I do miss the time we could joke about something in a faraway land, and by the time it reached them many months later by word of mouth it would have mutated into something more culturally acceptable. We should never have invented the printing press.

[–] kibiz0r@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Are you immortal?

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

punching down is never funny

[–] emptyother@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Punching down? It was intended to be a relatively tame joke about the world have been small for quite a while, and pre-emptively make light of those who would think this "being too easily offended" is a relatively new thing. Im sorry if I failed to communicate this correctly.