Cancel Culture
There could be books written about cancel culture. Cancel culture is really nothing new, it's been happening for decades. It's really the politics of personal destruction. For you mellinials check out the treatment of people that spoke out about Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct.
The latest case is Whoopi Goldberg and her comments about the Holocaust. I am not a cancel culturist, I believe in free speech no matter how stupid or insensitive. To me if you're offended by someone else's remarks then that is on the offended person. Now back to Whoopi. She got a two week suspension…basically a slap on the wrist. But why? She made an ignorant statement, came back after hopefully learning something and corrected it. I don't believe a suspension is needed. Let's move on.
Now compare what Whoopi said and her treatment to what former Mandolorian actress Gina Carano said about Nazi Germany. Disney fired Carano over her remarks. Disney owns ABC, which airs The View television show that Whoopi hosts. What's the difference? Carano is a conservative and Whoopi is liberal. It boils down to that. Twitter world exploded and Disney caved to the loud minority that wanted Carano canceled. The left is excusing Whoopi. Meanwhile Gian Carano may never work in Hollywood again.
This culture of canceling people that certain people don't agree with is dangerous to a free society. Eventually people with opposing views will be silenced completely. We are well down that road. The 1st amendment free speech clause protects all speech, whether controversial, offensive or just plain stupid.
It's time to stop putting up with cancel culture. Support those you agree with and let those you don't speak their mind. Then either have a debate or turn the other cheek.