[ SECRET POST #2293 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2293 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OK, so, why you do have a point that a lot of media kind of latched onto Japan as the new "in vogue" charity, but really, coming from someone who was living in Japan at the time of the earthquake and still is. Japan was not prepared for this. Beside a large scale earthquake that resulted in a tsunami so large that Japan has redone their existing tsunami ranking system, you also had a nuclear meltdown(which of course drew a lot of attention to disaster) that has forced thousands of people evacuate their life long homes.

I know now two years later it seems like Japan has recovered, but that's not true, Japan, while small, is bigger than Haiti and the part that was directly hit by the disaster, you still have people living in temporary housing in places like school yards, and that area was already in a state of decline due to a rapidly aging population and younger people emigrating to places like Tokyo, which now has the effect of making it harder to revitalize these areas.

So, yes, depicting Japan has having just a band-aid and an ice pack seems very trivializing to me.

[(Anonymous)]

But the comic was made before the nuclear disaster. Just pretend Japan has a concussion you will feel better.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

The nuclear didn't happen after the quake/tsunami, it happened as a direct result of it, and while, yes it didn't reach it's worst state until a week later, it was a still a big fucking deal because a nuclear plant had lost power and if you don't get it back on in a quick enough time, bad shit will happen, end of story.

OK, so the comic is dated March 12, 2011, and given that Scandinavia isn't that far behind Japan in terms of time zones, I could maybe say not realizing the full scope of the damage yet because of lack of news, and I have no idea if she ever said anything later as news came out, but in retrospect this comic looks damn foolish/callous and uncouth.

Also, don't just sit there and tell me to act like Japan just had a concussion, did you somehow not comprehend the part where I was in Japan during the quake? The whole point of my original comment is that this comic grossly downplays what happened in the Tohoku region, and pretending that it's a concussion is still down playing the terrible things that the people of Tohoku went through and the hardships many of them still live with today. (Like the fact that many of the people who lost their homes are still living in temporary housing on places like public parks and school grounds, and many, many other things.)

[truxillogical]

That's fair. I mean, honestly, we're still feeling repercussions from Katrina in Louisiana. (And yeah, I forgot about the whole Imminent Nuclear Doom aspect of it).

And I guess I get that it feels trivializing, but at the same time, again, I keep coming back to the mindset of political cartoons, where big ideas are portrayed in small ways. But it's fair to feel like that wasn't enough to portray the disaster.

I guess I just felt like the point of that comic was more America and Europe's tendency to rush from disaster to disaster, depending on what the media said was more "cool."