I am so fucking tired of hearing about cancel culture. It comes up everywhere and it’s bullshit.
Let's talk about it…
There is no cancel culture, it's a made up term, used by people who don't want to be held accountable for their words or actions.
No one has actually been canceled (in the common usage), including tons of people who truly deserve to be canceled. What really happens is someone says something or does some thing that others disagree with and people ask them to be held accountable. So the person being asked to be accountable, instead of apologizing for causing harm, bitches and moans and complains and whines and calls it cancel culture because they're not allowed to do whatever they want anymore.
Most of these people, who are traditionally powerful, rich, men, get pushback from people who don't like that perspective. And after that, they continue on being rich, powerful, and men, in a society that rewards all of those things.
You know who really has suffered from cancel culture though?
🚫 All of the people killed by cops without a trial.
🚫 Black women who get fired for reporting on their own harassment, and not being polite enough about it.
🚫 Disabled people who get fired after asking for accommodations.
🚫 Regular people who lose their homes during a financial collapse.
🚫 People laid off so the stock can go up 1%
🚫 Immunocompromised people were forced to stay indoors because people wouldn’t follow basic public safety guidelines.
🚫 Brown people who get killed after some right wing psychopath buys Tucker’s great replacement theory and shoots up a grocery store
🚫 Diabetics who can’t afford their insulin in “the richest country in the world”
That’s real cancel culture and there’s hundreds more real examples. What all these people bitching about “cancel culture” really mean is “I can’t be bothered to try and be a better person who takes accountability when I cause harm so the people I harm are the problem.”
They’re fragile people with persecution fetishes.
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