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| Topic | Seth Rogen doesn't understand comedians who complain about cancel culture |
| Balrog0 05/26/21 10:14:18 AM #140: | IShall_Run_Amok posted... Like, most of these manifestations of cancel culture are different things. James Gunn getting fired from Disney for bad jokes he made ten years ago, because he criticized an actual sexual predator's president is different from J.K. Rowling getting flack from minorities she speaks against, and they're both different from the walkouts over Roman Polanski at the Csar Awards, and none of them have anything to do with Dave Chapelle getting bad reviews from a dozen critics. Yet these are all, apparently, "cancelled". Right. Or, how about this; we're not so far removed from the pre- social media era that we should forget what it was like when it first became big. Starting about 15 years ago, and for years, the boomer advice was to be careful about what you say online because it could come back to haunt you, especially with employers. No one thought we were in the grip of cancel culture. Funnily, it's only when boomers joined social media en masse and failed to follow their own advice that it became a "thing" --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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