Hideki Naganuma apology screencap 

Not perfect, but it's good enough for me to stop feeling horrified. It kind of rides the line between "I'm sorry my joke was shitty and bad" and "I'm sorry it offended", but I'm willing to give some leeway there considering the language gap.

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re: Hideki Naganuma apology screencap 

@sharkNserg what are they apologizing for, I didn't hear about anything
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re: Hideki Naganuma apology screencap 

@Felthry he made a tweet that was very unclear whether or not it was a joke that he "finally found a girlfriend on twitter, but she's a teenager, so what?"

re: Hideki Naganuma apology screencap 

@sharkNserg ah yeah that's a pretty tasteless joke indeed...
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re: Hideki Naganuma apology screencap 

@Felthry it's a bad joke he shouldn't have made and it's good he apologized, but I am mostly relieved that it was just that, a bad joke, because the alternative is way worse, haha

re: Hideki Naganuma apology screencap 

@sharkNserg @Felthry oh, yikes. I'm glad he apologized at least, but it's still symptomatic of a larger problem

re: Hideki Naganuma apology screencap 

@elfi it's definitely not ok that "old man wants to date very young women" is still a punchline anywhere, though it's definitely even more common in Japan (how much media has lecherous old men being portrayed as lovable rascals?)

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