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ilex  ·  1361 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Soon we’ll all be cancelled

On a different note,

    I don’t believe that anyone thinks Kevin Hart is a homophobe, or that Al Franken is a dangerous predator. And I definitely don’t believe they think Sarah Silverman is a racist.

It's not a comfortable truth, but since we've all grown up in a racist, sexist, homophobic society, we have got parts of those ways of seeing stuck in our heads too. That's not to say that self-flagellation is the appropriate response or that canceling people for being racist is inherently right.

But denying the problem, as the author does here, merely feeds the engine of cancellation. If someone says "You did X which is very wrong," reacting with "No I didn't!" is understandable, but prevents any further constructive dialogue on the topic.