Yeesh, I don't mind answering real questions asked to me but questions like this where I'm supposed to make statements about a large number of diverse people involving a complex situation is not going to yield a satisfactory result.

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People are complicated. Some people are born offended - and were probably offended that they had to leave the womb - and some people are not offended by anything and everyone else lies somewhere between these extremes. So, a part of the answer is because some just want to be offended about something.

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This is a small part of the answer and for these people I still respect their right to feel offended, even if I don't agree with it. The biggest part of the answer comes from the very human reaction of seeing someone not respecting something that is important to a person. This isn't limited to cultural appropriation. If something is important to you, even something like a specific anime or science fiction book, you get angry when you feel someone else isn't giving it the respect it is due.

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In any question of cultural appropriation - and, really, anywhere that power can be gained - I also think dishonest people stoke the flames of hatred for their own personal gain and create/widen fault lines that weren't there before and trivial issues and appropriations that weren't malicious suddenly become a huge issue.

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Could be better, could be worse. Plenty of things to worry about close to home and far away.

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One example, I just found out my one sister - whose boss of a local government agency - was assigned a cop as a temporary employee for light duties until his broken hand healed. She noticed he'd disappear for long hours during work and would give weird excuses as to why. She notified the local police chief, his boss, who had a tracker placed on his government vehicle and it was found out that, among other places, he'd go visit his girlfriend or he'd go home to get into fights with his wife.

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He got fired and a criminal case is being brought against him and my sister is the key witness.

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And it turns out when he was 19 he "accidentally" shot his girlfriend in the face (how do you become a cop after that?), has anger issues (he punched a car which caused the broken hand), always was "weird" in a slightly crazy way, and after being fired tried to see my sister while at work.

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The local fire chief told her she should get a gun and the police chief said if she sees this guy at her home to lock all the doors and call 911.

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As the older brother I'm worried about her and frustrated that I can't do anything short of sitting on her front porch with a shotgun.

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So, I'm keeping my sanity in part by watching anime but I'm not really feeling like writing for my blog.

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I grew up in a blue collar, lower-middle class family before the whole "foodie" movement with it's associate causes rose up. As such I ate a lot of canned food.

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I find the vast majority of the people involved with the various "foodie" movements to be smug, self-centered, uninformed, pretentious sheeple who use how and why they eat what they eat as a means to proclaim their fiscal and moral superiority. The people who push it, using scientific claims that are tenuous at best, are a pack of boot-licking sycophants. And the end result is farm land producing far less food - it has to be "organic" - using far greater effort and resources all so that more of it can get thrown out because "fresh" food goes bad quickly.

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So, yes, I still eat a lot of canned food and it's typically the cheapest I can find. If it wasn't safe to eat, it wouldn't be on the shelves.

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That's not to say I stick with canned food all the time. Local, fresh picked corn on the cob is simply divine. However, corn on the cob bought in winter that was shipped from the other side of the world is no better tasting - and probably worse - then a can of corn or a bag of frozen corn.

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