Erick Erickson, conservative blogger and frequent Fox News contributor, tweeted Monday that his parents wouldn’t allow him to eat “Asian food” after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor during WWII.
Erickson made similar claims five years ago when he tweeted that his family still upheld the tradition, which seems to yearn for the good ol’ days of holding racial grudges.
According to Gawker, Erickson’s mother had never heard of the supposed tradition. When asked about her son’s tweets, she said “Whatever you heard, I think that is completely your idea, I have never heard of that before. Somebody is making that up about my son.”
Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have Asian food on December 7th. They were children of WWII.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 7, 2015
His mother was not born until three years after Pearl Harbor despite Erickson’s claims that she was a child of WWII. “As far as Asian food, we love Asian food,” Erickson’s mother told Gawker. “As far as the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor, I’m very grateful that many of the Japanese people became Christian. We know many people who are Japanese, they are a very nice people.” Erickson fired back at Gawker and tweeted that “My 73 year old mother does not remember a 27 year old event, so it is a news story to attack me. At least the reporter was witnessed to.” He would later revise his claims by saying his family only boycotted Asian food one time in 1988, despite several tweets that implied the boycott was a tradition.
Just received my annual parental reminder that today’s Pearl Harbor Day so I shouldn’t eat Japanese food. — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 7, 2012
Being my parents’ child, I know I cannot have Japanese for lunch today because it is Pearl Harbor Day. But that just makes me want it more. — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 7, 2010
Being my parents’ child, I know I cannot have Japanese for lunch today because it is Pearl Harbor Day. But that just makes me want it more. — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 7, 2010
He would later fire back , calling Gawker “a cesspool” while ignoring the numerous contradictions in his story.
I realize Gawker is a cesspool. But there seems to be a link one would not cross in using someone’s senior citizen mother to account for a twenty-seven-year-old event that happened on one occasion. We talk about lowering standards on the internet. Gawker seems to be the site that always lowers the standard. This time it is calling a seventy-three-year-old to ask her about a twenty-seven-year-old event so they can write a story about her forty-year-old son whom they do not like.
Twitter had some fun at Erikson’s expense, considering that “Asian food” is a pretty broad category.
.@EWErickson Erick you know that "Asian food" includes Chinese food, aka food of people who were persecuted by the Axis in WWII?
— Noah! (@ZGhaoN) December 7, 2015
@EWErickson I think you're confusing "are upset" with "think it's hilarious"
— michael f (@bunkosquad) December 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/ObscureMemory/status/673897033195892736
Maybe liberals just remember 5th grade history better @EWErickson – and appreciate our allies in the war. pic.twitter.com/3hPLX79p0n
— JD Thomas (@techfun) December 7, 2015
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