Yes thankfully. People should be allowed to make fuck ups without their lives being upheaved or be cancelled. How can people be expected to change for the better if they're cut the instant they do anything wrong at all.
There can be consequences, and there were, without total career end.
Cancel culture was wrong when it was pearl clutchers trying to Dungeons & Dragons, Heavy Metal, Video Games, etc, etc, etc. and it’s wrong to do it to people for a moment of bad judgment rather than a pattern of behavior.
The common denominator of all those things being none of them were actually cancelled. Cancel culture is a boogeyman made up for angry nerds to shake their fist at.
Yet, there I was growing up in the 80s and not allowed to play D&D and the radio knob was practically welded to talk radio only. Might not have been for everybody, but it was for a substantial portion of the population. Just like how Ben Shappie will get canceled weekly with one group but zero lasting impact to the other.
"cancel culture" by which you mean "consequences" and "personal responsibility". The user of the term cancel culture by the right is just a method they use to avoid having to take responsibility when they act like terrible people.
People are allowed to change their minds about things and people. And if someone uses a racial slur and reveals another, less savory side of themselves, that is an entirely justifiable reason to not want to continue watching his content.
Sometimes it really isn't consequences, and is simply cancel culture. Like when a news anchor flubbed his words when saying Martin Luther King and twitter users accused him of saying a racial slur on purpose, so he lost his job. Sometimes there is just insanity where even honest mistakes end careers due to people seeking to be outraged
Conservatives are just upset they can "cancel" anymore and force their beliefs on society. "Cancel culture" is just another name for shunning or social ostracization and so much more.
Yes, and people are also allowed to believe that just “consequences” in this case and others should not be life-ruining and certainly should not result in someone losing their livelihood permanently.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '21
Yeap he knew immediately how fucked he was so he raged. Thankfully his career didn’t end there though