I don't really have an strong opinion about this but it really is something hard not to empathize with to some extent. Like, I feel this is something that is so normalized in the west, whereas like, any mention of a comparatively bad event within that society, like 9/11, is a completely no go in mainstream media. And it's just taken as self-evident that one is inherently more toxic to joke about, even if it's just alluding to a similar event, than the other. Like if you marketed a comedy film with a plane intentionally crashing into a building there'd be a million fucking americans incensed about it calling for a mass boycott, and they'd inspire similar sentiment across the west just because it's taken as a objective fact that that's a cruel thing to make light of, even though it's a very broad concept. But we're almost geared to take the Japanese being very sensitive to the portrayal of something mostly only they have been subjected to as being hysterical and overreacting