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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Shoot me now.
Hard to argue with what Obama actually said, and I'm not sure why you share the NPR article, but you'd have to be blind to miss that many people who act badly are using complaints about "cancel culture" to divert attention from what they've done ( for example) or to attack people they disagree with (Trump, Lauren). And then there's Taibbi. Your Politico article:
It was nice of Politico to present Taibbi as an independent expert, rather than someone with a well-documented history of treating people poorly, for which he doesn't seem to be sorry. |
Do you agree that bakery owner should be held to account for a racist ramblings of his teenage daughter over 6 years ago? Really?
I've an in-law one of whose siblings became a skinhead for a few months during a deeply deluded phase. If this person's vile ramblings of old should somehow become of public interest, should the rest of the family be held accountable years later for one dimwit's perverted youthful behavior?
Regarding Taibbi, he has no reason to repent. He's put himself outside the reach of cancel culture by deciding to make any enemy of it. Self-innoculation. But it's interesting you'd dig up his old stuff, which he has said was intended to be rude and offensive humor, but isn't entirely factual. Should the guy who wrote
I Can't Breathe have the rest of his canon banished to Cancelledland because he wrote shocking and vile stuff thirty years ago in Russia? Sounds a bit like those attacks on Bernie for having written bizarre and offensive fiction in the 70s. If we run this level of attack to its cuckoo-pants conclusion, we really need to cancel Bret Easton Ellis. He wrote a book,
White, about why he refuses to apologize for being white and a horror satire that uncomfortably made fun of the murder and rape of several women.
Do you think Taibbi needs to repent? To ask forgiveness and examine his ways? People fuck up. People engage in humor that offends others. People say things that are insensitive. Get over it. These hall monitors who make a life out of finding grievance with anything that can be portrayed as even slightly offensive are miserable bores who are ruining art.
