I think what makes me angriest about this wank is that it basically sums up everything that makes me disgusted with anime fandom as a whole. This is the logical extension of all the bullshit I've seen in the 15 or so years I've watched the fandom explode in popularity. The disaster has uncovered all the gross, borderline (and sometimes blatantly) racist underpinnings of fandom for all the world to see.

These douchebags don't "love" Japan or have any respect for its people or culture, despite all their bloviating to the contrary. They're just fetishists, in the negative and worst sense of the word. "Japan" is nothing but a magical, exotic thing that exists solely for their own selfish gratification and amusement. These are the same tone deaf assholes you see wearing Naruto headbands and Inuyasha ears and shit at any kind of Japanese or Asian cultural festival in the States, barking their "supa kawaii" broken ass Google-level Japanese at anyone who looks vaguely Asian (whether they're Japanese or not). The people who buy those gross ass "I want a Japanese boyfriend/girlfriend" t-shirts at cons. They've basically taken over our local sakura matsuri at the Botanical Garden here. It's nothing but Yellow Fever as applied to an entire nation/culture/society. There's a tiny part of me that isn't completely cynical was hoping that for once, the fact that such a horrible tragedy affected a place we have a lot of fondness for would inspire people to want to be better than that. Unfortunately, this guy reminds me that fans like that seem to be a shrinking minority now.

It makes completely fucking ashamed to be a fan of Japanese entertainment, quite frankly. Call me an elitist bitch but "otaku" culture in the West makes me fucking sick and shit like this is why I want no part of it. smdh.