I’ve been wanting to say this for a while, but I’m glad people are starting to see what I was talking about. I feel like a lot of Japanese people were so quick to assume that it was mostly Black and Arab immigrants/refugees burning, rioting, and looting in France, which is why they were so angry in the first place. They were acting like Black and Arab people were destroying France and its white culture, without even realizing that white French people were also involved in the protests. And honestly, I feel like this is exactly why some of them got so offended when they saw people carrying the One Piece flag or that African protester dressed as a Dragon Ball Z character. They already had this image in their heads of who was responsible for the protests, and seeing people they associated with that image using anime and manga they grew up with seemed to make them even angrier. What’s funny is that a couple of months ago, I saw some of these same people praising Trump and ICE, saying Japan and other Western countries should adopt Trump’s immigration policies and start deporting people and putting innocent people in camps.