This whole cancel culture myth

Louis CK? I think he asked some girls if he could jerk off in front of them and they said yes but he was still cancelled when they revealed this years later.

Also I doubt you'll be seeing JK Rowling on Graham Norton any time soon, she's kind of cancelled even though her books are selling.

you can say what you like but there are people out there ruining the careers of people that they deem to have done something wrong.

like it or not its fact. whether its inveviduals or a group or organisation it happens

it is driven by who you are and who chooses they dont like you.

look at the amber turd situation and the cardi b situation. both 100% guilty of horrible crimes but nothing about it and definetly not canceled . but others who have done way less are canceled

We Irish had no problem with the concept when Parnell and the Land League "cancelled" a certain Captain Charles Boycott in 1880. In fact, that instance even gave the activity its former name.

Harry Potter is a product and the author is regularly vilified across the internet.

Father Ted is a product and the writer is regularly vilified across the internet.

Nonces / alleged nonces, very very different tbh and they shouldn't be compared to the above imo.

The reality is, the likes of Rowling and Linehan have been publicly burned by a small but extremely vocal bunch of individuals and we are now at the point that very few people in the public eye are free to voice their opinions unless said opinions align with the aforementioned small but extremely vocal bunch of individuals. Disagree and you are branded phobic. The likes of Twitter really has handed the screeching few all the power and its only going to get worse I fear.

Being cancelled doesn't mean no longer making money, it means being prevented from working as one would be able to otherwise.

Some people should take heed of the old adage ‘If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all’.

Egalitarianism and Woke culture split from each other when radical politics adopted nonsensical ideas. Everyone under the nine grounds of discrimination should not be discriminated against but none of it looks at anything through the lens of class. Woke culture is frankly egalitariansim for kids. Bourgoise D4 students and their discussions over 'Heino' down the Pav like...the idea a rich woman is discriminated against more than a man in poverty is terrible. Income inequality is the biggest cause of transphobia, homophobia, misogny, misandry. Might sound like a half woke ideal but look at it closer and it rings true.

The thing is, it's the same reason why Art/Music/books from controversial figures over history still sell. It's good. Great art is not the preserve of "good" people, bad people make great things. If you went through most people's consumption of various forms of media/art you would probably find someone who could be marked for "cancelled" grounds.

That is what people on twitter don't understand. You don't elevate the person you objectively appreciate the production of these controversial figures. As it has been and always been. JK Rowling is an author, Michael Jackson is a musical genius and Kevin Spacey is a brilliant actor. These are statements that are simply beyond reproach.

Cancel culture is mildly interesting in that today, as it seems to be used and understood, it is a much bigger monster in the minds of people than it is in real life. Of course there are people who can point to having been targeted, or removed from their position because they have become the focus of enough people for one reason or another and often they resign citing this attention or their employer decides to let them go because of the negative attention. (This is a much bigger issue in the US than it is in Europe due to the employment laws (or lack thereof) such as 'at will employment' which can mean that someone can legally be let go for any reason. Frequently this is done by companies at short notice, without any sort of compensatory payment and it doesn't cause a blink of an eye. )

But when it happens because someone used a racial slur or was abusive or violent on a night out, it is frequently now deemed to be 'cancel culture' when it is closer to being a case of them being held responsible for their actions. And this type of thing happens to people of all backgrounds, gender, race, etc etc. And always has, what has changed has been what people consider to be unacceptable as the argument for insulting, belittling someone or having a laugh at their expense is becoming less and less tolerated.

Today the phrase seems to be, for the most part, used by those more of a conservative nature along with their other favourite buzzwords of 'woke agenda' and 'politically correct' and they throw this phrases at anyone they consider to be progressive so as to dismiss any argument that might be presented to them our of hand without having to engage or come up with an appropriate response.

I wish they'd stop to think long enough to see that it isn't just a particular demographic who engages in this. Were the people booing Colin Kapernick and calling him to be fired not engaging in Cancel Culture? How about the people who destroyed their Gillette products on social media claiming they would never again buy another thing from them because the company ran an ad campaign that outraged them? Or how about the country music stations that refused to play music from the Dixie Chicks because of a comment they made about George Bush? Or Texas banning abortions, is that not cancel culture? Or the Tories in the UK introducing legislation restricting peoples right to protest? Is that cancel culture? Or how about people targeting school boards and telling them that they know where they live during debates about the wearing of masks, is that cancel culture? Or banning any subject matter that could be deemed to be trying to portrary a historical narrative that black people in America were mistreated. How about that?

On here, we have people decrying cancel culture in one breath and in the next saying that RTE should fire half its staff before burning the building with the rest of them in it. There isn't a politician in the country that doesn't have a line of people willing to stand up and tell them how useless they are and should be nowhere near Dail Eireann. A thread about a radio show on here was full with outraged posters the last few days because the show had a staff of all women presenting about sports over the weekend. We see threads almost daily with people giving out about trans rights, multiculturalism, non-traditional couples on TV etc etc but if there was one suggesting something should be done to help a particular community or to support someone who has been targeted or mistreated in public it would very quickly fill up with claims that said topic was another BS woke idea by a snowflake and it should be stopped immediately. But apparently that isn't cancel culture, that's just calling it as you see it.

There was the time the BSharps said they were bigger than Jesus.

Read Jon Ronson's "so you've been publicly shamed".

Twitter pile on's are all the go. Problem is nowadays if you don't agree with someone, rather than debate with them and have a reasoned argument, it's easier to stick your fingers in your ears and cry that the other person is wrong.