Thread by @DrewMcWeeny

Most complaints about "woke/cancel culture" boil down to this:

Before social media, communities without a platform typically were left out of the conversation. They didn't think you were funny then, either. You just never had to hear their reactions before, and you haaaaaate it.

You can make and market anything you want. You can make the most outrageous offensive comedy of all time. Go for it. But if people don't go or they hate it, that's not you being cancelled. That's how art works, Touchy Diaper Baby. Sorry the "wrong" audience got louder, I guess?

Someone should tell Danny McBride and the fucking lunatics over at RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES or the people making BIG MOUTH that comedy is dead and there's no edgy or outrageous humor allowed. Just to name two at-this-exact-moment examples. Or SUNNY, for god's sake.

The dirty truth is that "woke/cancel culture" is the best thing to happen to shitty old lazy comics in a while because now they have a hook. That's why they talk about it so much. That's why there are 8000 bad comedy specials called "Triggered."

And while you're here to talk about this, why not drop less than a buck to read my take on Taikia Waititi's tightrope walk JOJO RABBIT?

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And on that note, muting this conversation. I said what I meant to say, and you can throw straw man arguments and weird "what ifs" at me all day.

Some of you are telling on yourselves with a bullhorn and a neon sign.