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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Cancel Culture might be what we’re calling it right now.
We have always cancelled people, for different things at different times.
Once upon a time, for being communists. That was McCarthyism. Communism is bad, McCarthyism is also bad - a real good example of becoming what you seek most to destroy. Fortunately, we pulled back.
We used to cancel people for being gay. Now we cancel the lady who wrote Harry Potter, a series whose foundational moral principle is “purity of blood and fascism are bull#### concepts”, for suggesting ladies and trans ladies are not the same thing.
I would suggest both of these extremes are absurd and represent outcomes we don’t want - if gay people are your enemy, or if JK Rowling is your enemy, you might be the one who needs to be stopped.
Gilbert Gottfried used to be the voice of a duck in insurance commercials, but then he reminded everyone of that tragedy.
John Cleese and Jerry Seinfeld are now too extreme for college campuses, which should alarm everyone.
We have to get back to tolerating people who say things we disagree with, and being intolerant of people who DO bad acts.
Because we’ll never agree with most people we encounter. But we do have to live with them, and acknowledging that there is a difference between what people say, and what they do, is a good way for us to accomplish this in relative peace.
That’s why it’s a foundational principle of our society; it’s actually one of things that makes our way better than all the others.
If we can’t do that, it’s going to lead to far worse than an old man losing his 5 minutes during the 1st intermission.
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How was JK Rowling "cancelled"? She apparently just published a best-selling children's book:
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On 13 April 2021, it was announced that Rowling would be publishing a new children's novel, entitled The Christmas Pig, due to be released in October 2021. The story is unconnected to any of Rowling's previous works.[188] Upon release, the book received generally positive critical reviews and emerged a bestseller with high pre sales on Amazon.[189][190][191][192][193]
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I'm also not aware of any instance where either John Cleese or Jerry Seinfeld were "cancelled" from performing on university campuses.
Apparently, John Cleese decided himself to cancel one appearance as a show of solidarity over one university's decision to "blacklist" a particular speaker (and apparently the university quickly reversed that decision to blacklist).
And, as far as I can tell, Jerry Seinfeld has made a personal decision not to perform at universities because he things the audiences are too "PC". That's his prerogative, but if that is what we are characterizing as "cancel culture", then... *yawn*.