Woody Allen continues to make films. Scarlett Johansson is still paid millions to act. Laurence Fox's last TV series was released 2 months ago. Jenna Marbles' YouTube channel remains. Jimmy Kimmel is still paid $15m a year to present.
All too often, "cancel culture" becomes a means for very rich and very powerful people to pretend they are victims when people respond to very controversial things they have used their huge public platform to say.
I'm also keeping a tally of the commentators launching passionate public tirades against "cancel culture" who have tried to menace my job because I support trans rights or speak out about endemic media racism.
Oh dear oh dear!
To those saying: "one day the mob will come for you!"
Well, actually, they already have: I was attacked by a far right extremist because I'm a gay socialist.
All the people currently tweeting that I deserved to be beaten up by a far right extremist with a house stuffed full of Nazi and Combat 18 memorabilia are the same people complaining that the left are trying to cancel different opinions.
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Gaza genocide deniers like @DavidHirsh should explain, clearly and plainly:
Why have pre-eminent scholars - including in Israel - who dedicate their lives to studying genocide and indeed the Holocaust independently concluded that Israel has committed genocide?
How could academics specialising in the study of genocide get such an unbelievably extreme conclusion so wrong?
If indeed all these genocide scholars have somehow got this wrong, would they not have arrived at this conclusion on the basis of unbelievably damning evidence?
Political journalism isn’t about allowing voters to make informed decisions, thus enhancing democracy.
It’s about setting and policing the parameters of political debate - determining everything from what’s considered extreme, to what’s considered scandalous.
In practise, most British political journalism reduces politics to a character driven Westminster soap opera, based on who is up or down.
But this is itself highly ideological, because it’s based on embedding what’s seen as “serious” and politically acceptable.