This whole cancel culture myth

So you think he should have been fired and should never work in Hollywood again?

cancel culture doesn't exist because either they weren't really cancelled, or they got what they deserve....

Regarding Graham Linehan, here's a bit from his Wikipedia page about his relationship with both the BBC and Channel 4.

The Indo article is behind a paywall, so I can't view it. However, taking the synopsis here in good faith, you have to ask: who's cancelling who? It seems he's boycotting two major broadcasters because their views don't align with his, not the other way round. His reasoning for not working with the BBC seems particularly petty and somewhat unhinged.

So called “hate speech” constantly expands the excuse for censorship as the definition gets longer by the day. 

Nobody.

The posters who are pro-cancel culture are claiming that cancel culture doesn't exist for some reason. A bold move.

Me too

Ah here, don't open that can of worms!

I'll give you another one.

My sister had just had a baby and was breastfeeding her. She did this in a quiet corner or a private room when she needed to.

I was in the house when a woman who she knew but was not friends with called to the house.

She walked in like she owned the place and said (i sh!t you not) - "Come on get your coat. We are going to go down to the cafe in the middle of the local shopping center and you can breastfeed. Noone is going to prevent you doing what mother nature intended"

My sister said hey whats going on here.

The woman proceeded to tell her that a couple of other parents had told her that my sister was hy about breast feeding in public. And it was societies fault and now she was going to rectify it. My sister held the door open and told her to gtfo of the house. And as she was leaving my sister said its not up to you or anyone else to tell me i need to be comfortable getting my tits out in front of the all the people in the town who I know, including the kids and even the local football team who she is the secretary for. Please allow me to show my tits to who i want to and to not show them to who i dont want to, now fcuk off and save some other gobsh!te.

I actually held the door open for her. We were laughing for hours after it.

But a couple of women have never spoken to my sister after that. All very good mates with yer wan.

And that's part of why "cancel culture" exists. There'll be a few people complaining about something on Twitter, then news sites will run articles about "OUTRAGE on Twitter over XXXXX..." while taking things out of context, leading to further outrage from people who might not have even seen/heard the original content, leading to news sites to run more articles about responses to the "outrage" etc.... and on and on it goes.

A lot of the time, there's very minor levels of criticism and these things would likely very quickly fizzle out. But Twitter and news sites perpetuate the outrage machine for content and too many people are very quickly taken in by it because they then think that they should be outraged over it.

Cancel culture when it comes to fairly minor things is caused by social media, but not always by people on social media, but rather organisations on social media because they can generate content from it.

JK Rowling is doing pretty good for someone who is cancelled. 2 books that topped best seller lists for a few weeks both with good sales (both 2020) and very active on twitter. Yes it is odd she was not on a tv show but a program can do what they want. The only ones I had a problem were the ones attempting to rename Quittach

Both sides are well able to use the I can say what I am allowed to say and you can not disagree with me card. People are awful on twitter or facebook and that happens in many different ways. Alex Jones and his followers used that in there campaign against the so called fake shootings. So don't for one minute think it proves canceling. Plus I see you are moving away from saying JK Rowling was cancelled after saying in you initially post I quoted saying JK Rowling was definitely cancelled

I am not entirely sure what "after saying in you initially post I quoted saying JK Rowling was definitely cancelled" means, but the only post *of mine* that you have quoted is the one in which I said that the cancellation was only partially successful, so perhaps you're getting confused.

Rowling has been the target of several years of attacks, which like all similar attacks have also been directed at people around her, in order to turn them against her.

In a remarkable reversal, the group of people who *checks notes* dumped porn images into a twitter thread where she was giving away a free book to small children during lockdown one chapter at a time ... are the same group of people calling her an unsavoury character, and quite often getting away with it. Cancel culture is definitely a real thing, and it was definitely directed at her in an attempt to ostracise her, remove her from her creative endeavours, financially hurt her, and get her to obsequiously submit to do whatever they want. Again, part of the point of that is to show others "if we can do this to someone like her, you better stay quiet or you'll get it worse."

As I said upthread some celebrities like Morrissey, Dave Chappelle and JK Rowling are 'too big to cancel'. Many people with less money and influence could and have been driven out of their jobs and out of public life.

This whole thread is framed in a dishonest way. All the posters who support viscious witch-hunts gainst people also lyingly claim that they don't happen.

I apologies @Slutmonkey57b I thought you were someone else in relation to the JK Rowling cancelled comment my bad. In relation to those people who were doing those things to JK Rowling they are the lowest of the low so if that was cancel culture can we say what Alex Jones and his followers were doing to the family of murdered kids was cancelled culture as there was a lot of the same thing. People are going to say whatever the hell they want especially if they are behind a keyboard or back by a mob. It is the price we pay for having social media BUT IT IS NOT CANCEL CULTURE its people been bullies and has been happening since time began it just looks more widespread now as it can be seen in an instant. Are movie, book, poetry, cookery or game critics now to be vilified as they are trying to destroy peoples livelyhoods with what they say