What's wrong with Woke

[Rev. Rye]

That seems to accurately describe a fear that people have and refer to when they talk about why they don't like cancel culture..but..when we go looking at people who got canceled...do they turn out to be some rando who said one stupid thing the one time?  It seems to take quite a bit to get canceled, and you're never more than one successful pitch away from a rehabilitation tour.  Even more needlingly, people who get canceled are very often (and much more accurately) being let loose by for profits because they become a financial liability.  It's a strange world.  We're told to vote with our wallets - but when we do, it's decried as cancel culture.

Nobody but the suess company canceled dr suess..but we still had to watch dipshits make hay about it.  Comedians call it getting canceled when people refuse to pay to hear them talk.   Politicians go on magavision to loudly and publicly tell us all about how they got canceled (don't worry, they got better).  Meh.

On the one hand, the majority of people who end up getting “canceled” tend to have had a long trend of despicable behavior, but on the other, you can still find plenty of examples of cases where it was just set off by one dodgy tweet, cases like Justine Sacco making a crass tweet about AIDS just before before getting on a flight to South Africa and becoming the highest-trending topic on Twitter before the plane even lands, or Lindsay Ellis, a video essayist who recently compared Raya and the Last Dragon to Avatar: The Last Airbender and it caused so much controversy that she recently announced she had to retire from YouTube permanently. And there’s also the case of August Ames, who made a tweet about a scene she dropped out of because the guy recently did gay porn, and got enough harassment for it that she… ended up doing something more permanent than retiring. There’s honestly enough of either the “getting a lot of horrible shit for doing a lot of horrible shit” or “one bad takes gives people an excuse to be bastards” categories that I cannot, in good conscience, think about it in just one way.

That said, I do think that the majority of people who whine about it are mostly doing it as a pretext to complain about not being allowed to do whatever the fuck they want without consequences. I remember an old user named Agnostico outright stated that he hoped to free himself of the shackles of morality, and I can even remember watching Hannah Reloaded take on a John Doyle video where he ends up outright saying he wanted to be able to do whatever he wanted without consequences:


 
I don’t remember the time stamp (it’s a two hour video I watched several months ago), for the record.

That said, at this point, once that idea popped in my head, it became an obvious enough idea that it got me wondering if that, above all else, even the bigotry, might actually be the big motivating force behind the right: 

To say what Cartman says, and use any excuse to punish people they don’t like. Especially if they’re playing with gender the way Cartman is.