• Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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      the damage it did to society as a whole has been incalculable

      Ok, that’s hilarious 😂. A few edgy comedians had a rough patch and now Rome is burning!

      I think society will survive any misapplications of cancelling. There is no need to worry.

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      This guy is a bad example. Can we have this debate when it’s someone worth the effort? This guy is a huge asshole and I’m willing to ‘no contest’ his cancelling.

      Fight the next one. I beg you.

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          You literally made me laugh out loud. Well done.

          No. No. It did not. The problem you are describing isn’t totally imaginary, but for the most part, it’s a good thing that you can’t be an avowed racist or misogynist or general all-around ass and everyone will still love you as long as you are good at your job.

          Nobody is going to go on Twitter and said they were triggered because WKUK did this skit, and then George Soros would get the show cancelled. In fact, the lions’s share of the time, the people cancelling shows or freaking out and boycotting products, because someone said the wrong thing, are on your side of the ideological divide.

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      It is just public shaming in an age where it is almost impossible to control information getting, and/or being spread, around at a scale that wasn’t thought possible until my lifetime.