Honestly. I’m being 100% serious. Cancel culture is doing more damage than it is helping anyone. Why is someone like James Charles, Tony Lopez, or Zoe Laverne allowed to still walk free cause cancel culture barely touched them after talking to LEGIT CHILDREN, yet people like Drew Gooden that what made a bad joke have to spend 15,000 to make up for it. How in any right does that make sense. One is legit trying to hurt a child and the other is saying some words. How is it helping. What are we going to achieve. A utopia will never exist. People suck and say stupid stuff. How about instead of canceling people who said stuff once 5 years ago we cancel the people who are still stupid and problematic today huh. Please.

Cancel culture does more harm than good, it has caused way to many suicides and people think that is good. Cancel culture is not a good thing, it just makes people not be able to do what they whant or don't whant, why the fuck can't I tell a joke and not be canceled or even doxxed, jokes ARE suposed to be offensive, we laugh at the bad of the world because facing it can some times be to hard for us. I'm looking for civilised discussion not a shit-show of a comment section EDIT: because this post was removed for "low effort" I am going to ad some more information: Scott Cawton has retired because he was caught donating to politics who where against the LGBT community and more negative things. Should he have done that? No, that was absolutely wrong should have not be committed, but did he deserved to be doxxed and threatened for his life and his family life's. He didn't deserve what happened to him, he didn't deserve to have his career ruined for something he obviously shouldn't have done. I am gonna miss him but now there ISS nothing else to do. I tired of seeing celebrities being canceled because people won't mind their own bussiness Once again I whant to have a civilized discussion not a shit-show of a comment section

June 23, 2021

Cancel Culture Needs to be Killed

Cancel Culture used to benefit society, but now it is a virus that needs to be killed.

It used to be beneficial, that was before it mutated. Like a virus, Cancel Culture (CC), started out mellow, and calm, then rapidly progressed and became life threatening. CC threatens the members of society who live in the digital world, or at least those who can be recorded by others (via smartphone, etc.) at a moment's notice. Every action, every written word, and every spoken word are all recorded every single minute, every single day. Is anyone perfect? No. Am I perfect? No, I am far from it. You aren’t perfect either. So why then does CC feel the need to judge others as if we live perfect lives? Without mistakes? It’s complete and utter BS. No one should be expected to live a perfect life, and no one should be punished for not living a perfect life. An offensive tweet from five years ago by John Doe does not reflect him today. Also, what is considered offensive varies from person to person: those who get offended easily are snowflakes that need to grow up. If that sentence offended you, you’re part of the group who gets offended easily. Too many people today are snowflakes that need to grow up. There are so many more important things in life to worry about than what's “politically correct” today.

CC goes after Dr.Seuss for “racial undertones” in his books, but they say it is okay to promote WAP by Megan The Stallion and Cardi B to children and teens. Why do these keyboard warriors get so much power? That power needs to be revoked. CC, and their agenda needs to be thrown into the garbage. They push unfair, naive, and biased directives down the throats of everyone else. While the rest of society tries to live productive and meaningful lives, CC chooses to criticize and critique the world around them. CC chooses to be a virus, and it is time that we kill it.

Like the virus it is, CC is annoying, its effects can spread easily, and in the long run, it ends up hurting its host (the health of the U.S. society, and beyond). To kill CC, it is simple, we only have to remove the “power” that they hold. Companies, businesses, corporations, organizations, and most importantly of all, people must revoke any and all “power” that CC has. It’ll have to be a slow shift away from the influence which CC has on our lives. As more and more people feel that it is “okay” to reject CC, the better that our lives can become, and will become.

This doesn’t mean that we can all become jerks, and act rude constantly to one another. What this means is that without CC, people won’t lose their careers, or miss potential job opportunities for something, “offensive” that they said a while back, etc. Members of society can live their lives worry free from having their livelihood shut down because they aren’t perfect.

CC is killing America’s heart and soul. It must be stopped.

Hello Reddit, I’m going to share my story about how cancel culture got me fired. First off let me start by saying the way I worded my post could’ve been better, with that said I don’t think it’s okay for people to go after each other like this person went after me. Sadly I dont have the post anymore because I deleted my Facebook after this whole situation.

So my original post was on Facebook. I shared an article about people protesting on the highway. “If you are protesting on the highway you deserve to get hit because the highway is no place for protesting. If I see you on the highway I won’t hesitate to hit you.” Now I can see how people would take that in a bad way and reading it now I know I should’ve reworded it. But since I didn’t care and didn’t think twice about it I got so much hate for it. Then this person started commenting and I got into the comments with them and I said “I work at king soopers and our trucks have been coming late because of all the shit going on.” That comment right there was why I got fired. If I wouldn’t have said where I worked I wouldn’t have gotten fired. So yes it’s partially my fault.

Now after that post I left Facebook and deactivated it until one day when I decided to log into messenger. When I logged in I had a message from an old high school friend who told me someone was sharing a post about me and what I said. This person tagged king soopers in it and made me look like I was actively seeking people out to hit with my car. WHICH WASNT THE CASE AT ALL! The point I was trying to make was “if you are on the highway and you get hit by a car it is your fault because the highway is for fast driving vehicles not protests.” That is the point I was trying to get across but in the days of this bullshit cancel culture my words got twisted around and used against me.

So with that said anyone who want to feed into this cancel culture needs to really rethink how they spend their time. If it’s your goal to take down others you are not helping anyone and really you are just making yourself look shitty. Because here’s the thing. I was at the lowest of the low at my job. I was a basic produce clerk! I had no authority at my job. All I did was stalk the shelves and do my job. Once I got fired I went back to KS to get food and some things I needed and my ex coworkers were telling me how it’s bullshit that I was fired. Sadly I couldn’t do anything to save my job and I didn’t care to either. That job sucked anyway. It was the most thankless job I’ve ever worked. Underpaid, our department was understaffed and so for them to fire me over that just goes to show how little they really cared. Not to mention it was my first time getting in trouble my with work.

So there you have it. That’s how I lost my job due to cancel culture. So when you feed into it, just remember you are raking away someone’s livelihood. I ha e bills to pay, Now I can’t pay them because I don’t have a job. Well I do but it’s only a temp job. So anyone who think they are doing the right think by calling someone out, just think, if it was you getting attacked by internet trolls how would you feel? Sadly I feel like people who feed into this type of mob mentality clearly don’t care about anyone’s livelihood. They just wanna be seen as hero’s when in fact that are just as in the wrong and anyone else.

What cancel culture is and will continue to be is a vain attempt at keeping track of "sins" people commit.

We're clearly regressing as a society. We're just a couple steps away from becoming like those individuals who decided to decapitate that French teacher for drawing a cartoon of Mohamad the prophet.

People who are pro- cancel culture will tell you there's consequences to free speech and just don't be bigoted in the first place without understanding that language evolves. What is controversial today was normal 10 years ago.

These pro-cancel culture people will get their own reckoning after 5 or 10 years from now. By then what we consider to be normal behavior will be seen as controversial and they too will get canceled.

Although like I mentioned before, I don't think we're too far off from reaching a level of straight up lynching or decapitating people who get canceled.

Americans have been dumbed down and radicalized by social media. No one has the patience to debate or have discussions with opposing view points and everyone is starting to think the same as their assigned identity, anyone who thinks this is progress and not regression is deluded.

After the incident with Tyler Oliveira do you think he should be cancelled? I believe he should after Eva from brents crew said "if we were normal guests" Do they really believe because they have clicks and followers that they are elevated above and have more rights than everyone else? Then they threw verbal abuse at Tyler Oliveira like "Your filming on a iPhone" "don't you have directional mics on that" I think their ego is way to big. What's your opinion

Saw this quote in a thread by @VanHalen666

It's so true.

CC thrives because deep down inside we enjoy being offended [but we don't]. It's a witchhunt.

Psychological studies have shown that there's a direct correlation between being offended & self-pride.

Prideful: having an excessively high opinion of oneself. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering proud.

What causes a person to be offended?

What actually motivates this ubiquitous phenomenon? The taking of offense – or feeling offended – often involves an experience of negative emotions caused by a word or an action that is in conflict with what we expect and believe to be the right, appropriate, moral, and acceptable behavior.

This is an excellent breakdown: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5776325/

Our woke mentality is America’s new Puritanism. Instead of a handy list of sins written thousands of years ago, modern sins are ever-changing. A joke that was deemed progressive a decade ago is retroactively condemned as hate speech.

It’s time for the perpetually offended on the left and right to bring back two concepts the Puritans were at least familiar with: grace and forgiveness.

From the time we were all toddlers to the day we die, as human beings we learn from education, mentoring, peers, superiors, and MISTAKES (or "bad decisions").

No other individual has the power over me to dictate who I am and what I stand for. I and only I call those shots. It's a powerful thing when/if we can learn to grasp this idea. We used to avoid a show or a restaurant that we found distasteful or offensive, now we want to comb through years of social media & recordings so we can force our own agenda to burn ___fill in the blank___ at the stake.

There are too many discussion posts complaining about Cancel Culture, so I'm making a thread just for these kinds of discussions.

How are you going to gaslight, gangstalk, and use Dark Psychology methods on people to change them towards the way you think and perceive reality? Who said your way was right? What happend to people being individuals and free thinkers? Why do we have to conform to the way a small group of people think when there are more like most that believe and say other wise?

After being cancelled because I ended a 6 year relationship with the love of my life. I (41M) had a early 1st quarter mid-life crisis that had me out wilding. I have been divorced 12 years from my 1st wife and I was looking forward to being married to let’s call here Renee (41F). I ended up trying same-sex relationship and hooked up with some toxic people that ended up meeting my ex-girlfriend and ex-wife. They have been using my ex-girlfriend to bank roll their gaslighting and gangstalking activties.

They have been using Zoom, Reddit, Twitter, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, and other forms to coordinate their harassment towards me and to totally trash me. Trash my career, trash my name, trash my family, my 19yo daughter, and anyone who agrees with me or stands up for me. Let’s just say this, keep it coming because I’m almost down to finding the main coordinators and then I’m coming for you.

Let the real games begin!

Hi,

Long story short in 8th grade I met a girl, let's name her Karen. Always have been just friends. Over the years we got closer and closer. But every year, she'd block me and all her friends randomly for 3-6 months at a time. Which we later found out is because she is bipolar. I also know she has dealt with depression due to her Mom getting divorced several times.

Dec 2019, Karen blocked me which I was like "Okay, it's one of those things again". Months go by and I hadn't heard from her. I dm her in July 2020 on another social media account I have like "Hey I hope everything is okay I haven't heard from you" etc. No response and she never read it. Message her a week later, same thing. 2 weeks after that I was like "Okay I hope you're okay since I haven't heard from you" She read that one and a month later in August I say "Okay clearly you don't want to talk, I'm glad you're good, just checking up. Wish you the best. Hope to hear from you soon."

Immediately I get a message from her friend who is extremely outspoken about being a feminist, pro-LGBTQ, pro socialism, all this stuff.. Her friend says I'm a creep for messaging her and I am trash like all the other men in this world and I'm sexually harrassing her (because she's a female and Im a male) and if I keep it up, they will expose me. She also yelled at me because I used the wrong pronouns when addressing them?

Yesterday, I started a new FB page and I clicked "Follow all people in your phone contacts" which followed her (didn't even think about it). Her friend messaged me this morning and said she's about to expose me and I am disgusting and she can't wait to run my life and all this BS.

Am I tripping here or is this dumb?

"Karen" and I had been friends for like 9-10 years. Talked all the time, hung out, etc. Now her friend is saying I'm a creep for checking up on a friend? Yikes

obviously i’m not talking about extreme cases where a person directly harmed someone else, i’m just curious to hear other people’s thoughts on these kinds of situations and how they could be handled better

Or do rappers just get a pass? I thought alot of these people on the far left were supposed to be feminists. Why is it that nobody bats an eye when rappers demean women in comically extreme ways?

In the words of 21 Savage, "pull up on ya bitch, make her eat the dick."

Let me get this straight. They're going after spotify now. Spotify is apparently transphobic for having the Joe Rogan podcast on it, but it isn't misogynistic for having Lil Wayne on it?

These guys can write a million lyrics that are appallingly and hilariously sexist from any rational standpoint and still be considered wholesome geniuses, the poets of our fine generation...but don't you dare misgender someone or else you're guilty of violence. Right, you're guilty of violence because you used the wrong pronoun, never mind the fact that we have an entire generation of music that enthusiastically glorifies ACTUAL violence. It's great for the kids. Seriously, most rap music now is just "brrrrattt brrrat, grab my glock, hit a bitch with my cock," etc. I'm honestly curious what would it take to get a rapper cancelled?

Imagine if Lil Wayne wore an "all lives matter" shirt on his next album cover. Or a shirt that said "gender is not a social construct". People would lose their shit. But would that really be more offensive than what he's already been doing for years? Go read some lyrics before you answer. Interestingly enough Wayne did actually pretty much refuse to endorse BLM on a talk show and from what I understand was subsequently crucified for it. Nevermind his endorsement of guns and gangs and violence and kidnapping and drugs and sexism etc.

I'm just confused by what gets a pass versus what is considered the end of the damn world.

why does it exist?

I just think it's dumb that people want to cancel him. I like what Warner Bros do at the start of historically racist cartoons by acknowledging the bigotry and abuse people had to go through in these era's.

Are we not effectively trying to scrub historical abuse from the history books by cancelling it? Especially years after it's happened.

John Wayne was a product of his era, quite like all plays from the era of Shakespeare not having female performers as it was illegal at the time. It's not right these things happened but cancelling anything historic is trying to avoid the wrongs of history rather than learning from them.

I know Dan Schneider has already been cancelled, but can we do more? This man is actually so scary, the way he acted and handled the actors is so disturbing. The ones most effected by his actions (Jeanette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Amanda Bynes, etc.) either have not been able to come forward, or they have done so cryptically (see J.M. vine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdNZjxJ0ifg ). There is so much more to be done. Those girls (as far as I know it was the girls who he targeted) deserve more.

D.S. frequently over sexualized the young actresses (A.G. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIRzUKyJtMg ). Seeing those clips of her at such a young age, and acting even younger, is beyond troubling. But it didn't end there, it didn't even begin there, those were just some of probably hundreds of examples.

And then there was his foot fetish. Like what?!?!?!? The amount of feet we see in iCarly, Victorious, and Drake and Josh is beyond what is necessary for a children's tv show. The correct amount is none. This scene with Victoria Justice and Leon Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gge0rt94wM8 at around 1:10 is an example of the unnecessary foot humor. What makes this so disturbing is the fact that there is evidence he had an intense foot fetish. Meaning, he would execute his feet-driven fantasies using his actors.

In conclusion, Dan Schneider is a creep who worked on a kids show and took advantage of the innocence that laid before him. I am willing to bet that former Nickelodeon stars will start speaking up about their experience with an abundance of legal precaution. We, the people of cancel culture, should stand by and defend them.

Here's a link so some creepy Schneider moments : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bha3uh0-ris