#cancel cancel culture

[mafaldaknows]

Finally, a legitimate news source calling out this situation for what it is.

It’s fascinating to hear the media use the evidence and language we ourselves in this fandom have been using in defense of Armie Hammer on social media. Holding this two-year long vigil may finally have opened the eyes that needed to see this situation for exactly what it is.

Armie Hammer is the victim of defamation by opportunists perverting the original intentions of #metoo and #believewomen in the virtual town square for their own selfish, nefarious purposes by exploiting those among the general public who love nothing more than to throw a rich and famous man with perceived privileges under the nearest bus, just because they can.

The perversion of #MeToo in the name of faux-militant feminist ideology is driving this popular online movement of indicting and condemning famous men in the court of public opinion without legitimate evidence of criminal wrongdoing, without the presumption of innocence, without due process, and without the possibility of redemption in any form.

Hammer’s accusers, as well as his ex-wife, recognized the window of opportunity presenting itself in the post-Weinstein zeitgeist, and climbed right in, in the search for the 15 minutes of internet fame to which they assumed they were guaranteed, and to which they felt wholly entitled, by any means necessary.

All it takes is one biased source with a fragile ego and a personal vendetta using gullible people mindlessly consuming internet content without due diligence or critical thinking skills to accept their even marginally plausible lies as if they were facts and spreading them like wildfire about their target on the internet. All the better for instant believability without the requirements of facts and evidence, if their lies come spewing forth from Instagram-ready, artificially-enhanced, telegenic faces.

People really are that simple. And the rush to judgment is what makes the internet go ‘round, after all.

We must aim to be more mindful and responsible consumers and creators of content on social media, lest we end up eating ourselves, as a functional and civil society.

Enough already.

[trexalicious]

[angerinthenation]

Facts don't care about your feelings.

[capricreatives]

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[ijustgotherebro]

More people should hear this

[crazycatsiren]

Just a quick not friendly reminder: someone who has apologized for past mistakes, made amends for past actions, and clearly no longer holds past beliefs, is a far better person than one who digs up old dirt and uses a person's past that no longer exists against them.

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[auroranwolf]

I definitely agree with this. Cancel culture doesn't exactly work in the way people think it does. Especially when it involves something like the israel/palestine conflict. I've found myself really depressed looking at the cancel posts to do with supporting israel, especially in light of the possibility of some of these people just being rascist in general & using israels violence towards palestine as a way to spread anti-semitism. I can't even look at the tag for my current fave tv show without finding a cancel culture post about the people involved supporting israel and telling people to not watch the show, as if these bloggers can tell people what's morally acceptable to watch. I apologize if any of y'all find this offensive. I just couldn't stay quiet about this. I hope one day we can get past using cancel culture for social justice. Until then, i'll refuse to support cancel culture.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

purity and cancel culture make people think artists who write, draw, sing or make things about subjects that are (rightfully) considered disturbing and socially unacceptable — as well as fans who like fictional things that are (rightfully) considered disturbing and socially unacceptable — are “red flags”, “predators”, “deserving of having their hard drives checked”, etc, when in reality people can like or make fictional things about subjects that are (rightfully) considered disturbing and socially unacceptable without condoning these things in real life.

artists who create (fictional) contents about triggering subjects aren’t automatically “predators who condone these terrible things in real life”. artists who create (fictional) contents about triggering subjects are just artists who create (fictional) contents about triggering subjects.

people who like (fictional) contents about triggering subjects aren’t automatically “predators who condone these terrible things in real life”. people who like (fictional) contents about triggering subjects are just normal people who like (fictional) contents about triggering subjects. for reasons that aren’t nobody’s business but their own.

(as long as they don’t act out these things in real life and hurt real people, they’re normal people like you and me, and 99.99% of people who like fucked up fictional things are normal people who don’t hurt anyone in real life.

if someone watched a fucked up movie and acted out the antagonist’s crimes in real life, then it still meant that this individual was already fucked up and a predator, and they would have done terrible things whether or not they watched a fucked up film; the art itself don’t make people do terrible things.)

art has never been restricted to only rainbow and sunshine and unicorns.

art is also about the depiction of macabre, things that are disgusting, unpleasant, violent and unacceptable. (as long as nobody in real life actually gets hurt.)

you can’t claim to “accept art and artists” and then say “but if you write fics about (X) or if you like this movie then you’re a red flag and are disgusting 🤢”

it’s absolutely okay if you personally hate these types of fictional works that revolve around triggering subjects that are (rightfully) disgusting and socially unacceptable, it’s okay because it just means these types of works are not for you (no one forces you to watch, read or listen to them), but it’s not okay if you start harassing artists who create or people who enjoy art you personally hate, just because you hate them and therefore you believe other people must hate them too or else they’re terrible people.

you are a terrible person if you harass anybody in real life over fictional things that aren’t real.

you are the one who aren’t able to separate fiction from reality.

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[mafaldaknows]

Please watch, like, and share.

We need to boost Colonel Kurtz’s message in the hope that serious journalists will see it and finally report the issue of falsely accused men more widely.

[queerism1969]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Community Notes to the rescue.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[belleandre-belle]

[dalyankiz1981]

☝️ Nothing to add

Can we please make it a law that everyone who is falsely accused of something as serious as rape be uncancelled. To have their lives back.

Then those who do the false accusing just have their asses thrown in prison for a very long time for ruining those peoples lives with their own stupidity. Like no joke, please can this be a real thing.

So that the actual real victims can have their real justice for their real victimhood. please?

Better yet I want this and I want the whole "cancel culture" to just disappear altogether. That would be amazing.

[iantoharkness-jones]

!!! STOP THE HATE AGAINST THE SHOW !!!

Neil Gaiman is not Good Omens.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between an author and his work is an idiot. Period. If you follow me and belong to this group, goodbye. I'm really not interested in you.

And the rest of you, hold on and don't let this individuals spoil your life in any way. ❤️