I don’t browse forums, 4chan nor the comments in RandomC, so I guess I’ve never been exposed to this mystical weeaboo that (to roughly paraphrase Shance) exalts himself from the rest of otakudom simply because he knows a few Japanese catch phrases.
As others have implicitly motioned, the raw watcher challenges the power and authority of those who learn a language through institutionalized means. In this case, the ideology of the school (very Althusserian) hails its subjects as more “established” or “proper” as those outside the discourse (the other; the weeaboo). It’s interesting to see how the power of the educational establishment - and some of it isn’t all as great as its cracked up to be - inculcates such thoughts in people. What if someone truly doesn’t have access to Japanese classes and can only fill their insatiable xenophobia and desire to learn through the media of that culture? Such is the state of many public school systems, especially in urban centers.
Although one point bloggers enforce is that the beginner of Japanese shouldn’t waltz around and proclaim an arrogant and naive fluency, bloggers owe it to the base of this digital social structure to propel and propagate the very essence which constitutes the entirety of the subculture - “disenfranchizing” one part “jeopardizes” the whole (or at least makes both those power and the whole structure look rather foolish). Many bloggers do not promote the essence of “Japan”, “multiculturalism” nor “second language acquisition” but their own status quo and hegemonic discourse that marginalizes everyone situated at its border.
The blog is an ironic soapbox. Serious Business.
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