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Bobcat Goldthwait on "cancel culture"

posted 3 years ago by ebertfan91 (1059)
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I actually don't believe there is a "cancel culture." It just reminds me of like in the 80s when a shock jock would get fined by the FCC or get in trouble with management or a sponsor. They would say, "I'm getting killed by the man," and then that person's fans would rally behind them, and they would end up making millions of dollars.

When people use the term cancel culture, it's just a way of people marginalizing marginalized groups, and it gives permission to their audience to feel like they're the victim. No one's freedom of speech is being taken away. All these millionaires are going to keep on making millions of dollars.

If it boils down to a millionaire and a major corporation versus people who are being murdered and have a high rate of suicide, which side do you think I'm going to be on? I'm going to be on the side of marginalized people. I've always considered myself an outsider, you know?

[–] brux (14840) 3 years ago

Interesting. I'd agree with that. The claim of cancel culture is just a way to marginalize more the marginalized so that the rich and powerful people can continue to do whatever they way that they think is their right because they are so superior. Not exactly the voice one would want representing that nuanced POV though. ;-)

Which bring up another habit of our media - on both sides ... when they describe a Progressive, for the little guy, for the marginalized group agenda, they more often than not find a voice to express it that is emotionally off-putting to their audience.

[–] Satan2016 (26197) 3 years ago

He's a idiot. Millionaires not getting cancelled, just little guys.

[–] 123Guy (7838) 3 years ago

he's not in touch with actual cancel culture.

where some no name tells a dumb joke to his buddy, someone overhears and gets offended, posts on twitter, and the hive mind hunts him down, gets him fired and marked, destroys his marriage, ruins his reputation to his children, and countless others methods.

i honestly have no idea what Bobcat is even talking about here. I guess now "the man" is every human with access on the internet to smear each other out over a stupid joke that could easily have been simply ignored?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sKX2Gk7eFY

[–] samoanjoes (58580) 3 years ago

Gina Carano got fired for an opinion. Choreographer Rosie Kay was forced to step down as the owner of her own dance studio for saying in her own house that trans women aren't real women.

Cancel culture exists.

[–] FilmBuff (7436) 3 years ago

It certainly does. And what Bobcat is ignoring is its effect on the average person. Of course a celebrity will have some level of immunity to cancel culture, because they have money in the bank and a large number of fans who will stand by them, depending on the what they did to get canceled. It's the average person who suffers. Someone says or does some random little thing, often something taken out of context, and is fired from their job, evicted from their home, and so on. Those are the people who suffer from being canceled.

[–] samoanjoes (58580) 3 years ago

And people think that just because someone gets hired somewhere else that means it doesn't exist. The issue is that they got fired for nothing.

[–] TimMC (9143) 3 years ago

Chris Noth would likely disagree with him.