Meh my impression of his obsession with sjw/cancel culture was mostly from a comedians perspective. I mean would you save Dave Chappelle is a right winger?
Comedians simply hate it. There are parts of it that are way overboard and ridiculous and those parts just constantly attack and harass comedians. The vast majority of comedians have a problem with that stuff naturally and still most are leftist
Dude was calling people who supported trumps immigration policies monsters, shit on Trump constantly, advocated for strong enough investment in black communities and blamed it on our racist systems. He even goes in on Ben Shapiro about that and says we have a ton of systemic racism. Supported universal health care.
Dude was way more left than right. Maybe for selfish reasons or whatever. But when he found he had no home on the left and they were calling him a hateful bigot in bad faith, it doesnât surprise me he said fuck that.
Probably just a grifter and when he found out the left hated him, the establishment anyways, he turned to the right to grift.
Regardless dude has such a massive audience we should have at least tried to keep him on our side. Maybe it wouldnât have worked, but chasing him off was dumb as fuck. He will influence millions of young new right wingers
Have a hard time accepting cancel
Culture complaints from people with massive audiences who are unimpeded from hearing them.
The arguments from comedians are almost always hollow and more of a demand to force people to hear things as opposed to people being allowed to say what they want.
Shane Gillis is free to make fun of Asians all he wants, and he did. SNL is not required to employ him.yet people like Rogan will call that cancel culture.
This. Dave Chappelle is doing nothing different than he was doing before he got âcancelledâ, and probably making more money on his latest Netflix special because of it.
Whatâs different is that before Cancel Culture Ruined Everything, he was getting universal praise and admiration from the critic class. A small number of online commentators have always called out Chapelle for some of his problematic attitudes, but when he was mostly throwing punches up at privileged white people those comments were easy to ignore. But now the criticism is mainstream and is not easily ignored. When these people with big platforms say âIâve been canceled!â what they mean is the unconditional praise for their work has been canceled. Yeah, I can see how it sucks for them. But its not like Dave Chapelle has no choice but to repeatedly go all in on these self selected âwhy is everyone mad at me because I think trans people are ickyâ routines. There are plenty of people in positions of power he could be skewering instead.
Cancel Culture shit is completely made up but has captured a TON of normies. Well not normies, people who were apolitical before but now are pretty right wing. Cancel culture and not being allowed to be an asshole has hurt was WAY more than any of the bullshit that left strategists suggests like softening on immigration or BLM or whatever.
I know a ton of people in my age group that donât like democrats simply because of cancel culture and political correctness even though like 90% of it is made up.
Wouldnât be a problem if democrats werenât incompetent useless fuckwads.
Whatâs fucked up is that cancel culture didnât start with SJWs. It started with the right trying to take people down who werenât patriotic enough after 9/11. Itâs just that the prevalence of social media combined with who was in power during its explosion led to more right-wingers getting shut down than the left.
Itâs been a thing forever. It was trying to cancel gangster rap, and rock and roll before that, then a bunch of other shit before that. 90% of it has been the right/Christians from my memory.
While there have always been movements to shut down perceived deviants, cancel culture as we know it was arguably popularized and spread by Black Twitter. I see cancel culture more as punching upward at those in power, so it is different from establishment power being used to support the mainstream and squelch the alternative.
Some privileged people are merely afraid of being cancelled, but the more thoughtful conservatives should be afraid of the success of collective action forcing change and setting a precedent for mass movements.
Are we really talking about âcancel cultureâ like itâs a real thing and not a bullshit grievance Republicans invented? The left always totally loses the war on framing and semantics.
Itâs been a thing for decades. Before social media it was called censorship and done under the pretense of religious belief. Blues, rock, rap, video games, movies, music whatever pop culture was around was targeted at the time by the religious right as offensive and detrimental to society.
Now because it involves the use of social media and targets Republicans, itâs called cancel culture.
Oh FFS, no one is censoring Chapelle. Stop playing along with these right-wing victimhood takes. He told a bunch of jokes that people find dumb and offensive.
