Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.

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    it’s generating outrage online about stuff nobody cared about until the day before.

    Oh you mean like Critical Race Theory, Drag Shows, and getting vaccinated?

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      Uhh… yes? Are you trying to frame me as some sort of right-wing nutjob? People who complain online about Drag Shows and Vaccines are not okay in the head, but what does that have to do with the discussion?

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        what does that have to do with the discussion?

        What do examples of cancel culture being used for bad things have to do with cancel culture being bad?

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          Oh you meant people who get harassed because they complain about those things. I thought you were saying the opposite.

          Well then no, it’s the opposite of what I was saying. Arguably everyone was on board with the fact that vaccines were good before covid, and then it became “controversial”. No one is getting “cancelled” because of a 10-year old tweet against vaccines, because if they tweeted that 10 years ago people would’ve already been angry at that time.

          I’m talking specifically about the times a satirical thing from ages ago that no one cared about at the time gets dug up and ruins careers because if it was said now it would be problematic.

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            Ah, so nothing at all to do with what the article is about. You can see why people might have misunderstood right?

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              The person I replied to brought up the thematic of “cancel culture” as a whole, and I said what happened in the article was good. I get why people misunderstood but I think I was clear enough in my first comment in saying this is a (rare) instance where it achieved a good thing and I wasn’t talking about that.