This whole cancel culture myth

the second one isn't great but the first one is completely stupid. imagine publicly admitting you are racist in 2012?

What does the second one even mean? Does it mean he spied on an actress changing her clothes during an audition? (He should be sacked for that) Or does it just mean he took out his phone and type "boobs" into Google cos he was bored?

That's why you don't tweet the first random crap that comes into your head.

you only mentioned two of the tweets. there were more including

so the tweets you quoted may have been enough on their own to get him fired BUT there were others as well. This is not cancel culture. this is somebody getting fired for being an asshole.

dumb enough to get him fired. that it was his personal twitter makes no difference. He wasn't cancelled. he got fired and rightly so.

Famous individuals who lose their TV show or book deal etc is a just one aspect of this phenomenon, although it tends to get the most attention due to the fame already associated with the individual concerned. The more pernicious aspect is the cancellation of ideas in the media. Chompsky's book manufacturing consent put forward the case that mass media's reliance on advertising revenue lended extraordinary power to motivated individuals and groups who complained to networks about content they broadcast. Fear of losing advertising revenue as well as the capital required to setup and maintain a major media outlet results in a situation where media often buckles to complaints in sufficient volume, stultifying their ability to report on unfashionable stories. This power was once wielded by the Christian right, now it's in the soft and feminine hands of the left, although neither scenario is desirable, but it's basically unfixable at this point.

Thats where we are heading for imo and not just for people in the public eye.

The most innocuous of things can potentially be used to cause difficulties.

I'll give you an example. Now this is pretty funny imo but its evidence how comments can be perceived.

A mate of mine watched a video on Facebook of a comedienne that has cerebral palsy, think it might have been from a BBC show. Anyway, the clip was subtitled and he posted a comment saying he thought it was a bit unnecessary having subtitles because she was perfectly understandable. He commented because he thought it was subtitled due to her having CP and that people wouldn't be able to understand her, and that, he felt, was doing this young lady a disservice. Nothing to see here, right? Wrong. The deaf community went ballistic with him. Multiple people started flaming him due to his "insensitivities", calling him disrespectful, deafist, all sorts of things. The harder he tried to explain what he meant, the more people joined in to bash him. It went on for over a week until he eventually bowed out of it. The most hilarious thing is that he is the least offensive person you'd care to meet. He himself is gay and has experience of homophobic abuse over the years so is very conscious of respecting people from all sections of society.

We live in a world where "Im offended" is like the fuckin bat signal to draw all kinds of loonies out of the woodwork.

Louis CK is back touring the United States. He did three nights at The Vic Theater in Chicago recently. He is selling out dates across the US at the moment.

I wouldn't call it subjective.

Anyone who has been following the news media for the last 20 years knows dozens of examples, maybe hundreds.

There was the English scientist who lost an honorary award because he said men and women who work in laboratories fall in love with each other sometimes.

There was an IQ researcher in Newcastle upon Tyne who correlated university admissions with class background.

Etc., Etc.

Why does it need to be presented as "empirical data" (in table form)? That is just a time-wasting request.

Right so by that argument rape culture, racism, misogyny and bigotry are considerably bigger problems.

Not comparable with Rowling and Harry Potter.

Friends is a TV show, devised as a TV screenplay, with a script written for TV by multiple people over multiple years.

The Harry Potter movies are based on novels, devised as novels, sold and very popular as novels, written by an individual.

There is no comparison.

This guy is seriously saying that people getting cancelled on twitter is on the same level as racism. What kind of bubble is he living in?