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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
Bill Maher was legit cancelled nearly 20 years ago as sponsors pulled sponsorship of his show, an actual legit reason to cancel a program. Not like sat Live PD! which was a ratings Juggernaut for A and E, featured a black host. Canceled because it followed police around...
https://globalnews.ca/news/7054199/l...tter-protests/
This guy losing his job? Yes it is an epidemic.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...sture/2347584/
You think this guy is going to have an easy time getting another job? Yep, his resume is top notch, now plug his name into google.... DONE.
Removing Chase the Police Dog from Paw Patrol? Yes this is an epidemic
Have a read through this list going back the past month, some justifiable, some certainly not. This exlcudes Jimmy Fallon, Drew Brees and anyone else with an "All Lives Matter" take.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/everyo...les?ref=scroll
Things like this make me think of another word we are not suppose to be using. The R word, so much of this is simply ######ed. |
While I agree with some of your points, I think you're just playing into the outrage over it.
How were Jimmy Fallon and Drew Brees cancelled? Brees said something and apologised and kept his job. I don't even know why Fallon is included, but whatever it was he seems to be doing fine.
Live PD! yeah, cancelled, but fairly common sense given the political climate surrounding what is a very real issue with police brutality.
This issue with the outrage machine is that people unwittingly play into the exact thing they're pretending to be against. Want to talk about why cancel culture is toxic? Great, Mesley is a prime example. Removing the cop dog from Paw Patrol is probably another one, because we're getting into the space of "way too reactionary." But including things that are going away for good reason (Live PD) and people that haven't even been "cancelled" (Fallon, Brees) just muddies the water and makes the point gutless.
That's no different than commenting about our issue with racism and mentioning Mesley in the same breath as the cops who said they wanted to "kill n******".
It's actually a perfect example of why cancel culture is ####ing bonkers. Instead of addressing things that are actually an issue, people need to make the issue bigger or go around demonizing fairly innocent people who really shouldn't be included in the first place. There's no limit. When people get going on something they're outraged about, they push and push and push until they're trying to swallow up things that don't belong in that path. It's toxic, but to say it's isolated to the left, or isolated to "people saying 'bad' things in public" is wrong, because the issue is way wider.
It's spread over society to the point that even people who think they're against it play in so willingly. You can go look at the Canadian politics thread and see a ####ty joke. Was it the left crying foul and calling it "racist" despite it not fitting the bill and them not being able to explain why? Nope, it certainly wasn't.
"Cancelling" is a tool that is more and more being used solely to bring people down a peg by people who otherwise want nothing more than that. That's the issue to me, and if we try to categorise it by just saying "one ideology" is at fault, I think we're missing the bigger issue.