I mean, yeah, that Avril Lavigne video* is pretty dumb, but this Ann Althouse commenter here has the right of it:
If examined closely Japanese popular culture would explode the brain of the average political correctness warrior in the USA.
Here is a not entirely atypical example, chosen partially because the artist (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu) is both popular and known for her adoption of Western styles and themes – but mostly because it is, by our standards, highly insane:
(WARNING! What is once seen, cannot be unseen!)
I look forward with some interest to see people on the Left start yelling about her. It would certainly fit in with their somewhat parochial world-view… or would, except that the people most exercised about cultural appropriation somehow manage to also take the curiously intellectually incoherent position that only the West is advanced enough to be held accountable for its actions. Don’t ask me: I’m not part of that particular Sphere of Epistemic Closure.
Continue reading @Voxdotcom… has no idea of what Japanese popular culture is like, does it?