Misery loves company's Journal

Screw The Quake Victims, Give Me My Anime.
Admission up front: I'm in here a couple of times as

sevendials. I stopped posting before I wrote this up and will not be saying any more.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica is one of the currently-airing shows in the winter anime season. It's a deconstruction of the Magical Girl concept, created by Gen Urobuchi and Studio SHAFT. Ten episodes of the projected twelve-episode run have been shown so far, and it's pretty obvious that however bad things already look for Madoka and her friends, they were only going to get worse. It's been on hiatus since the Tohoku earthquake, for what many fans feel to be obvious reasons.

madokamagica is a Livejournal community that discusses aspects of the episodes, shares icons and fanmixes. It's usually fairly low-pressure, and has been pretty quiet since the show went on hiatus. That all changes when

doctorcasey makes a community post about the show's status, suggesting that the last two episodes may not be screened at all out of sensitivity to the victims of the quake. First red flag: the tone of the initial post was rather entitled, but it appears to be a direct quote from another message board so it was easy to assume he was simply spreading the word.

Things remain reasonable until people start to post in support of the decision. Whereupon it becomes obvious

doctorcasey made the post because he disapproves of this kind of "political correctness" and was hoping the rest of the community would agree with him.

What. The. Hell.

ETA:

doctorcasey has left the building. Really! He's going right now!

ETA 2:

doctorcasey has been in contact with me via Livejournal messaging, and has requested that I post the following apology here on his behalf. Everything below the cut is him:

( And cut. )