This whole cancel culture myth

Yes but you’re just being asked to explain specifically how she attacked trans people. If she did attack them then that should be pretty easy, shouldn’t it?

i'm not spinning it. they voted for the candidate the GOP put forward. that does not make them trump supporters.

Linehan didn't just say "Trans man aren't women tho" one day. What he did was was actively harass and gaslight individual trans people for hours a day and encourage his then 600k subscribers to join in.

Mind you, that didn't get him banned from Twitter. Calling people 'groomers' for not agreeing with his world outlook is what finally pushed him over the edge. Still though, having a private platform ban him for repeatedly breaking their Terms of Use is not cancellation. (Especially when he's repeatedly evading the ban with sockpuppet accounts, literally boasting about buying new sim cards from ASDA in the process) He's free to continue his air his horrible views on his private substack, his podcast or Gettr, the latest alt-right knock off version of Twitter. Which he does. The fact most of his remaining active supporters in these endeavours are completely loonies, and every now and then his discomfort with them shines through, is the "free market of ideas" doing its job if you ask me.

Here's an example of cancel culture:

Hartley Sawyer, an American actor who was famous for playing a character on The Flash TV show got fired from said show in 2020. It was all because of tweets he posted earlier in 2012 and 2014.

2012 tweet: "The only thing keeping me from doing mildly racist tweets is the knowledge that Al Sharpton would never stop complaining about me"

2014 tweet: "Enjoyed a secret boob viewing at an audition today."

Immature and shouldn't have said it, of course, but I have read way way worse of twitter. But cancel culture got him and the show axed him. Hasn't had a single imdb credit since. He joined flash in 2017 so someone went back through at least 8 years of tweets in 2020 to dig something up.

That is capitilism. Not Cancel culture. Actors get payed based off of name recognition and his became bad. That is why famous actors get paid so much more than the average actor. Certainly many famous actors are good actors but not to the extent they get payed. However big names will attract more viewers and more money. Hartley was not a big name to begin, with no real big roles and wasn't going to bring in more money and being mostly famous for dumb tweets is going to lose them money.

Side point: It didn't take much research to find out those were not the tweets that got him fired, I feel a bit more research should be required in future as what you wrote seriously misrepresents what happened. "Things only women should be in: twilight screenings, gynecologists offices, and Porsches."

"As a lad, one of my favorite activities was kidnapping homeless women and cutting off their breasts"

He seems to have a trend, people prefer not to support bad people and so likely would have led to viewers turning off. Should they keep an actor who gets them less views?

Erm... I can only be blunt with this one.... are you alright in the head? Lol. First you say that didn't get him fired, then say I didn't do "research"

Ermmm...

So yeah... I don't think you have a clue what you are talking about. Normally, I wouldn't bat an eyelid but you come off as "a matter of fact" about it.

The Lord of the Rings was, among other things, influenced by Tolkein's views on what he saw as the ever increasing industrialisation of England, which he viewed as destroying the rural village type of living that he had grown up with.

It's a clear and documented case (and discussed by Tolkein himself) of an author's views and experiences being reflected in their work.

First one is dumb alright. I think it was his personal twitter before he got going as an actor. Then made the mistake of not deleting it.

What were the other tweets?

I only ask cause I remember reading this story at the time (I watch the flash) and those were the only two tweets I remembered.

Edit

I see them here https://static3.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Hartley-Sawyer-Stupid-Tweets.jpg

to me, he comes off as some immature frat boy type who thought he was posting funny things. As I say, I've read way worse on twitter. People who posted absolute vile and not trying to be witty in any way

the three articles you linked to mentioned them but dont show them. this reddit page lists them but the twitter page it uses as a source no longer exists

So cancel culture exists but rape culture, racism, misogyny and bigotry don’t? Or if they do they should just be ignored by people “just trying to get on with their lives”?

Should posters now spam the thread with news articles about PC controversies and firings because pro-PC posters claim to have never heard of such a thing? Bizarre

I don't remember that.

Yeah except ayatollah doesn't play dumb and claim he doesn't know what a fatwa is.