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[DaBeast]

This day and age you can't say anything offensive without the internet jumping on your ass. Most people can freely say dumb shit and get away with it, but if you're someone who's famous and in the spotlight, your chances of privacy disappear pretty much. Whatever you say on the internet, is there forever pretty much.

Which brings me to cancel culture and how if you say certain things, you could potentially see your career die on the spot. But, I think there are some people who should be able to say offensive things and get away with it, like comedians for example. I wouldn't fret if Dave Chappelle said something offensive, because he usually has a joke around it. But the thing with social media, is that it's difficult to differentiate comedy from an attack. At least in written form. It's easier to tell what a joke is if you see it live for example. But a tweet for example can be looked at differently because there is no performance attached to it.

Anyway, I hate the idea of cancel culture and people who are all for it. Especially when they use their time and efforts to "cancel" a comedian or something. I'd understand if some politician said some hateful shit, but he/she is also not a comedian so it's a lot more understandable when they are cancelled.

How do you feel about cancel culture?

 

[Sapphire]

Cancel culture is toxic as hell. It just allows normal people looking to complain about crap online to weaponize people against each other and ruin lives. It is nothing but a mindless cult move rooted in selfishness. There are cases where things should be called out but the way cancel culture handles things is juvenile.

 

[Finesse]

If it were up to me, I'd let everyone talk as much shit as they want. We're never going to get to a point where people stop saying offensive words, so why bother stop it? We know where the idiots are when they have their dumb takes, no need to cancel them, they're already doing that themselves. That's the beauty in it all, the idiots will cancel themselves.

 

[RCNAL]

First of all, if you are going to put yourself in the public sphere, in whatever capacity, sports, entertainment, youtuber/influencer, it comes with the territory that you can be 'canceled'. Accept it as part of the game.

Second. Twitter, etc is not everyone. Pretty much everyone in my family has no twitter, IG, snapchat, youtube, especially the older ones. The younger members do, but as far as I know, they aren't on there all day tweeting and re-tweeting, etc. They are chatting with friends, that's it.

That said, there are a hard core relatively small number of people, who get off on making something go viral. They are on social media all the time, commenting, liking, disliking, re-tweeting, etc. There are also semi organized, organized and basicly a code among various groups to stay on social media and pound their message incessently. These groups can be seen as good or bad to you. White supremacists, black feminists, pro-male, pro black empowerment, LBGTQ, if the topic at hand is related to them, they go hard. I have worked with a few gay cats and a couple of them are friends. They don't get it. The ones I worked with over the years and became cool with are just glad they have the option to be married and have the same concerns as everyone else: rent going up, inflation on food, etc. They have no agenda, in fact, they are hoping their orientation isn't the thing people lead with about knowing them. They would love to be 'normal'.

White supremacists went on the internet early. There are FBI reports about these groups seeing it as a way to recruit and disrupt going back 20 years. Yahoo news was one of their biggest hunting grounds. Anything negative about blacks, like some crime, they pounded it. You'll see something like 'smh, 13/50' meaning 13 percent of the population and 50% of the prison population'. Anything good about a black person like a black grad getting into 5 Ivy league schools and you'll see a bunch of posts like 'affirmative action in action'.

Black women are very, very active on tik tok, twitter etc, especially 2 segments: swirlers and feminists and both are very hard core anti straight black male. Black gay men and the very manosphere are on there heavy as well.

The overall point is the media takes these comments often by a concerted group that is no where representative of the group they purport to represent and knows this but for news sake goes along with the narrative. People are getting canceled by a relatively small number of people. These people have no power, no money, no real life in their every day lives and gain a sense of power and clout by being able to cancel.

Jason Black or maybe Tariq, can't recall, but I am thinking the former, looked the people commenting on something that was seen as black women not liking something and there were a ton of fake accounts, and some women were literally tweeting about 100 things a day hoping one of the tweets go viral. It happens. The metoo thing just got lucky and re-tweeted by someone with a name. Other hashtags are similar.

 

[HeffDawg]

Cancel culture was straight until white people hijacked it to peddle their jibba Jabba. Now fat white people are trying to get you cancelled, white men in dresses with wigs, gay white men who like women are trying to get you cancelled. It’s madness.