Second, the phenomenon that’s been labeled “cancel culture” is just a backlash against the consequences powerful people have faced for their own bad behavior.
In some cases, and to be honest, I don’t really shed a single tear for truly powerful people, but I’ve been around a lot of drama over the years at the small-scale, interpersonal level where I thought there was some disingenuous stuff going on. Here’s a more concrete, more widely known (than my direct experiences) example of total bs:
I wish I could find it, but his friend, the recipient of the grits jokes and a black man, actually wrote a piece a while ago saying it’s bs his input was less important than the do-gooder middle aged white woman who decided to “interpret” their friendly interaction on behalf of them both and get the white guy fired.
I’m not trying to shift the topic, I just wanted to mention that a lot of people who reflexively complain about “cancel culture” may not be in it for the reasons one might think they are (although many are.) I will read more about this particular case. Seems like different people have different ideas about what “cancel culture” means and that muddies the topic.
