The Thread of Cancellation

[elphenor]

I mean it does no damage to society

but even to the person being Cancelled they usually end up just fine

[WWWP]

Originally Posted by Stephen

I have no idea who Ariel Pink is. I’m guessing a singing mermaid? I don’t think churches deserve any tax exemptions, no. They’re businesses that should be treated like any other.
Are you calling me a misogynist?

The joke is that you never defended Ariel Pink nor would defending Ariel Pink have anything to do with your political ideologies nor would it be indicative of your support of any proximal entities, let alone one so far removed from Ariel Pink as the WBC, that it's absurd to even suggest the two are linked in some way and finally - none of the aforementioned has anything to do with sexism or misogyny whatsoever and to include it as a punctuating statement at the end of this already outrageous post is outright obscene in it's inappropriateness, and hence the humor.

[WWWP]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

The WBC are hilarious. They can troll a dead marine’s funeral and nobody, despite all their tough ass **** talk, does a goddamn thing to stop it.

Reminds me of someone

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I mean it does no damage to society

but even to the person being Cancelled they usually end up just fine

Wtf of course it does. If it gets out of hand it can lead to a culture of hypocrisy and paranoia and witch hunt like scenarios. Even if you sympathise with the original intentions, I don't think any angry mob phenomenon can stay reasonable and healthy

[Frownland]

My favourite was when Robert Downey Jr. was cancelled for doing blackface in Tropic Thunder after two satire accounts and a 15 year old posted about it. Thousands of people swarmed to his defense against this cancellation to no avail, because the official voice of the internet had damned RDJ with those three posts and we were forced to kill him.

Or when J.K. Rowling had her terf outburst and published Troubled Blood a couple of months after. Then it came out that Troubled Blood was transphobic too because it depicts transvestites as serial killers. After the internet decided that Rowling was cancelled, thousands rushed to her defense buying 65,000 copies in the first week (compare to the 120,000 copies of her 2018 book sold over the course of two years). Unfortunately, this wasn't enough and we were forced to kill her.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by ando here

Cops don't open doors for gangstas. Playground rule #1. Think that's been Trump's problem with the Repubs the whole term. He still thinks (like countless others) he's the real revolutionary.

They do in Mexico.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by WWWP

The joke is... hence the humor.

Ah yes, I humour.

[WWWP]

Ariel Pink got dropped from Mexican Summer lol. Still no word from R Stevie Moore afaik.

“Welcome to the panoptigan [sic]. they wasted no time…save yourselves friends, cancel me now and turn me in before they come for you,” Pink wrote, adding, “Vote for trump.”

[The Batlord]

Vote Trump and vote often apparently.

[Trollheart]

Vote Rump.