[...]Which is why I'm really going to hone it in. I'm not talking about a bunch of people dog piling some rando for saying dumb **** on twitter that would have never gotten attention had someone pointed it out. I'm talking about famous people, comedians, entertainers being "Cancelled" or fired from jobs or gigs because someone dug up an offensive statement or tweet or photo from their past. That is of course why we're using the word "Cancelled" and why any recent article is talking about people like Shane Gillis or that Justin Trudeau fellow from Up America with all the trees. Also, to be clear, the idea that an entire person's career could be ruined, like ended over a couple of offensive tweets is terrible and I'm not a fan of that. Unsubscribe.
Luckily, that's literally never happened, really. Like it's not a thing, at all. You don't believe me? Just ask my good friend Bill Burr again. This time saying that Cancel-culture isn't a problem.
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This version of him is right. The answer to the question "Has Cancel-Culture and SJWs gone too far?" is a resounding, not really. Most audiences love offensive **** and the few who don't usually walk out, Twitter hasn't changed that. In fact, name a comedian or entertainer who has their career cancelled over a few statements or jokes they made, like truly canceled. Rosanne Barr, she's probably the closest one, although currently planning a comeback as we speak. James Gunn, not exactly like it actually affected his career and he is, in fact, back at the job he was fired from, plus a Suicide Sqaud do-over film featuring only some of the original cast that we're apparently just going to allow DC to do. But anyway, not related. Gilbert Gottfried is no longer a duck because he made fun of dead people, but his career isn't over. Paula Deen, you know, that really racist lady is currently hosting cooking shows like nothing happened. Alec Baldwin just got his own Celebrity Roast. Heck, even Mel "The-Jews-Start-All-The-Wars Sugar-Tits" Gibson has received multiple Oscar nominations within the last few years. Then Gary Oldman defended him, said that Hollywood was quote "run by Jews" and went on to win an Oscar for Best Actor. So thanks, all the Jews that run Hollywood, for that aware you gave him, or so I've heard from Gary Oldman.
Scarlett Johansson is a torrent of hilariously bad comments and we **** love her. SNL fired Jenny Slate for not saying racial slurs, but the word **** at midnight on a Saturday. She too, is doing great. Another person who literally got canceled was Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect, and it wasn't because he offended the snowflakes by being racist or homophobic, or when he compared mentally ill people to dogs, or the numerous times he said it was cool for a female teacher to **** their 14-year-old male students, or any number of his terrible, lazy, scumbag opinions he espouses on his long-running not-cancelled show currently on HBO. No, Politically Incorrect got cancelled because Maher implied the United States was cowardly for launching missiles from 1,000 miles away and then the White House Press Secretary used his government position to condemn private citizen Maher and sponsors pulled because he insulted the troops and then he got cancelled. So maybe the real snowflakes are our government and military.
But again, this isn't a judgment on these people or whether or not they should have faced harsher consequences, or whether or not the actual **** up free speech issue is when a comedian gets cancelled for insulting the government or military. Those opinions are up to you, the viewer. Rather, I'm just asking the simple question, who exactly has been cancelled? Sinead O'Connor for criticizing the pope? Yeah, but where's the cancel-culture epidemic that's going around and hurting these poor celebrities? I'll go even further and mention some celebrities, who not only said **** things, but also did **** things.
Roman Polanski is a rapist and yet has also won all of the awards and even got to be in a Rush Hour film where he played a rapist as a comedy bit.
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Casey Affleck drunkenly and nakedly got into the bed of the cinematographer of the film he was working on, and is still directing and starring in movies, putting him very much in a power position. TJ Miller has been accused of rape and definitely called-in a fake bomb threat within the same year he was in a **** Spielberg film. I could go on for a solid hour. Like, once you actually go down the list, you realize that the pearl-clutching panic has nothing to do with offended Millennials so much as entitled rich people who are upset that there are now slightly more consequences to their actions. And that, incredibly, it turns out that big corporate giants like Marvel and Saturday Night Live sometimes, but not always, play it safe when it comes to not hiring absolute ghouls or mild ghouls. That's it, the big outrage is that potentially racist or abusive people aren't getting all the power that they think they deserve while still probably getting too much power.
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