You should read my other comments. But for clarity sake, no I don't support blackballing, at-will employment, and the like. I just want to point out that supposed cancelling hasn't done a blessed thing in the instances that celebrities who say actual bad things publicly. The closest thing I can recall that cancelling has done anything is what happened to James Gunn and Kathy Griffin for their supposed misdeeds (cringe-worthy nonsense but nothing I'd care about even in the worse of times). But over all supposed cancel culture hasn't done much other than annoy celebs who are chronically online (they need to get use to the jeering in the peanut gallery rather than pretend that social media is a polite society).
What about the dude who was fired for Tweeting about the efficacy of nonviolent protests or the reporter who was pushed out because he interviewed a black person with opinions that his employer/colleagues didn’t feel black people should have? Or the professor suspended for using a Chinese word that sounds vaguely like an English slur? Or the utility company employee who was canned for accidentally making the “ok” gesture? Or the kid who was accosted by a group of black nationalists and subjected to defamation by every media outlet in the country to the effect that he received death threats and threats of violence even from celebrities? These are literally just examples off the top of my head, but I can go on.
> I just want to point out that supposed cancelling hasn't done a blessed thing in the instances that celebrities who say actual bad things publicly.
Huh?! Gina Carano was fired by Disney earlier this year because she had the audacity to draw a parallel between today's political vitriol and the Holocaust [1]. This happened precisely because of the power of the current outrage mob.
If you don't see the effects that the outrage mob is having on the rest of us, it's because you aren't looking [2].
Gina Carano was fired because it was a gross and offensive parallel to make that republicans of today are treated anywhere nearly as wrongly as Jewish people in Nazi Germany. There is a nuance.
This also says nothing of Gina Carano's history of transphobic comments, which Disney didn't care about because they didn't make as much press but still says much about her character.
> Gina Carano was fired because it was a gross and offensive parallel to make
So you think it is OK for employers to enforce conformity of thought? I suppose that _your_ thoughts will never become problematic, right?
> republicans of today are treated anywhere nearly as wrongly as Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
The point isn't that they are. The point is that _this is where it starts_. It's a warning about where we're going if political vitriol continues. Perhaps review the ten stages of genocide [1] and see if you can draw any parallels.
> This also says nothing of Gina Carano's history of transphobic comments
What specific things did she say that were "transphobic"?
