Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
I don't see what's wrong with such shirts if you know the language decently. But if you don't know the language and they aren't 100% obvious tourist shirts, I find it more dubious. Everybody thinks English (not Engrish) prints on T-shirts are perfectly OK everywhere, so why wouldn't other languages be? I think denying the right to use them is elitist weeabooism as much as wearing them ignorantly is popular weeabooism.
It's more that they are pitiable and pathetic for trying so hard to make a display of their ignorance rather than looking down on them because they don't know the language as well as you.

It displays a childish pretension, kind of like someone adding random Japanese words into a sentence or giving themselves a Japanese nickname for no reason other than it being associated with something cool.