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Jimmy Carrr gives BRUTALLY truthful answer on cancel culture (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Some select quotes:

Respectability is a prison and the gates are open and people are desperate to be inside.

You can criticize ideas, but you cancel people. And I think the cancel culture thing... I think it's the new book burning.

Another friend of mine went, "You need to just right-size this." (...) She said, "What's happened here? You told a joke and some people didn't like it. That's what happened." It didn't seem like that big a deal when you put it like that. And yet, in the moment, sometimes it feels catastrophic.

You can't have an easy life and a great character.

All of these quotes are in reference to general ideas so far as I can tell -- the overall concepts of respectability and "cancel culture", not specific instances. And I think the interview missed a huge opportunity to dig deeper on these ideas by citing specific examples to start picking at those broad takes.

Cancel culture applies to people who make choices that hurt others and are unrepentant about it. It's not about the choices; we all fuck up from time to time. It's about the lack of remorse. That's what speaks to a person's true nature. And if a person's true nature leads them to unapologetically hurt people, then they're a piece of shit person and I'm justified in wanting nothing to do with them.