Cancel culture - what do you think

[Suedehead]

Do you still listen to Michael Jackson?
Do you think the world is a better place with the Guernica in it? What about Off the Wall?
But then what about Murphy’s Law? Or Harry Potter?
Where does one draw the line?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I reject the premise of the question. It doesn't really exist

People who are "cancelled" still make money. Philip Schofield got a TV show only the other week.

 

[Joseph]

I don’t agree with “cancel culture” as it doesn’t work 98% of the time. Very few “cancelled” people have actually been cancelled unless they wound up in jail like a Weinstein or Cosby.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Fuck Harry Potter forever.

That is all.

 

[Suedehead]

I reject the premise of the question. It doesn't really exist

People who are "cancelled" still make money. Philip Schofield got a TV show only the other week.

Ok Mary
You know what I meant

 

[Lucille]

I reject the premise of the question. It doesn't really exist

People who are "cancelled" still make money. Philip Schofield got a TV show only the other week.

Phil did have his career damaged though, and what he did wasn’t even THAT BAD!

 

[Suedehead]

Fuck Harry Potter forever.

That is all.

To be fair it was always overrated anyway

 

[Suedehead]

I mean who gives a shit about boarding schools and wizards
So fuckng formulaic

 

[Suedehead]

Fuck JK Rowling

 

[K.C.]

I find the discourse on cancel culture more annoying than cancel culture itself (not this thread, love u suedey).

Ostracizing and expelling dissenting opinions is something human societies have done since we were cavemen to promote social cohesion and homogeneity. But people (esp on social media) love to talk about it like it's some 'modern phenomenon'. I think probably because human societies have become so populous and so interconnected, there is no dominant voice anymore so one day you're on the "right" side and the next you're on the "wrong" side.

 

[K.C.]

To be fair it was always overrated anyway

Definitely. Even as a kid, I remember thinking "Oh, ok"

 

[funky]

It’s complicated because nobody ever seems to agree on who should be cancelled anymore or what constitutes being cancelled, and everyone has a very short memory anyway.

The fact that Trump should have been cancelled 20 times over and is neck and neck to be reinstated as the US president tells us all we need to know. I mean fuck Phillip Schofield.

 

[Pipo]

I thought Cancel Culture was real until I discovered not long ago that somehow Lostprophets' entire discography was uploaded AGAIN onto Spotify. FYI, Years ago, after what happened, every single album and single with his vocals were wiped off entirely from Spotify, except for some recent releases the band recorded afterward that were just instrumentals.

 

[jivafox]

Nobody is entitled to be on television or film, and they’re all covered by the same workforce laws as every other job. I’m sure they all could have gone to a tribunal if they had a case!

 

[GNL]

I don't think it's really a thing.

Schofield's job was to be well-liked, approachable and trustworthy. On paper that's not his job description but that's the reason he was getting paid so well to do something any Butlins host could do. When he was mired in scandal and lost public favour, that wasn't sustainable. And even then I suspect he lost his job because he pissed off people at ITV more than anything else. If they wanted him to weather that storm, he probably could have done.

But more broadly I think cancel culture has taken up so much space in the discourse because of the shock public figures have experienced at the public being able to talk back now. And even then, it's mostly just an inconvenience to them.

 

[VV]

If I like something I listen to it.

 

[Dark Carnival]

I reject the premise of the question. It doesn't really exist

People who are "cancelled" still make money. Philip Schofield got a TV show only the other week.

That’s pretty much it really. We saw it first hand on Moopy a few days ago with Azealia Banks. Some people will still consider someone talented, funny or intelligent above everything else. And that’s before you even get to whether people agree on someone having done something bad to begin with.

 

[VoR]

Few things annoy me more than public figures claiming (invariably on a high profile television show, radio interview or podcast) that they've been 'cancelled' when what they actually mean is that they've been criticised.

 

[octophone]

It's a right-wing invention to try and turn the consequences of our actions into a bad thing.

 

[Rita]

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WHAT IS THIS SHIT?

 

[big ron]

UTTER WOKE NONSENSE

 

[ZenGiraffe]

BACK IN FUNKY'S DAY!