Hiroshima Mazda Car Dealer's TikTok Video Imitating Wheelchair Users Causes Storm Online

In response to the spread of a video of a Hiroshima Mazda employee in an electric wheelchair imitating a disabled person and laughing, which caused a firestorm, Hiroshima Mazda released a written statement on April 30 explaining that it never intended to make fun of the disabled person. The video in question appears to have originally been posted on "TikTok," but in late April a third party shared it on Twitter in the form of criticism of a Hiroshima Mazda employee playing with an electric wheelchair to imitate a disabled person. The video was so bad that it caused a firestorm because it showed a man in a uniform with the "MAZDA" logo on it riding in an electric wheelchair and operating it by tilting his head while slightly sticking out his lips and tongue as if imitating a disabled person, and the filmer who saw it laughed and said, "One more time!” Episode Notes: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2023/05/01/video-of-hiroshima-mazda-employee-imitating-wheelchair-user-starts-social-media-firestorm-in-japan/