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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What happens to your life if the very act of using a public toilet becomes a source of fear or panic?
Well, it largely means you don't leave your home unless you really have to. You don't go to pubs or bars or cinemas or theatres. Do you even go shopping?
If you *only* consider the question of toilets, and nothing else, Britain has been turned into a hostile environment for trans people.
Britain is now the most hostile country to be trans in Europe, other than Russia or Hungary.
Opposition to Israel’s genocide is a position shared by millions of people.
And yet there are some on this website who want to make it a fringe position, by imposing a purity test which would exclude the vast majority who oppose the genocide.
Even if you oppose the genocide, even if you support a total arms embargo and sweeping sanctions on Israel, the arrest of the entire military and political leadership, the creation of a single state with equal rights for all:
Even then, they will say you’re not pure enough.
There’s always been a small strain on the left, amplified by social media, who are driven primarily by being seen as the most radical person in the room, who think they can prove their radicalism by defining themselves against any leftist with a platform.
We are getting to the point where we are increasingly normalising the idea that direct war with Russia is inevitable.
This will significantly increase the chance of nuclear apocalypse, in which the lucky ones will die in the initial blast.
It is OK to resist this.
There is no question that Vladimir Putin is a very unpleasant irredentist autocrat.
My question here is, leaving aside existing Western horrors inflicted on the world, if Donald Trump achieves his goal of annexing, say, Gaza and Greenland, are we going to war with the US?
Immediately even proposing this will provoke ridicule.
Well, why exactly? Is the suggestion we are going to war to resist foreign aggression, or only if certain countries are guilty of it?
War with the US is clearly ridiculous, but why isn't war with Russia exactly?
Keir Starmer's aides openly brief that he is not actually running the country.
He's just the frontman for Labour's most right-wing faction, a bunch of unpleasant political gangsters who don't believe in much, apart from hating the left.
Fascinating how Keir Starmer's leadership campaign lying to and conning the Labour membership can be treated as just a throwaway line.
Rather than a scandalous act of deception, which drenched Starmer's political project in dishonesty from the start.
Long before the election, the deputy prime minister said the prime minister is "incapable of running a bath."
Being a good administrator was supposed to be Starmer's major selling point.
The public parading of detainees is indeed unacceptable.
If you're going to damn all Palestinian society for it, where does that leave Israel, which stripped little children to their underwear and paraded them in front of cameras?
Read here how the Israeli army deliberately murdered the terrified 5-year-old Hind Rajab, her four cousins, her aunt and uncle - then the paramedics sent to save her.