No they are not the same thing. I disagree with the AV Club’s interpretation, that’s all.

EDIT: Thank you for asking, rather than assuming.

Atkinson, to his credit, doesn’t cite any specific examples of this recent “mob-ish” behavior.

Honestly, encouraging people to “read the room” is shitty, stifling behavior. What exactly would Atkinson have detected had he read the room? I’m guessing it’s that he shouldn’t utter the words “cancel culture,” but other than that, I’m really curious as to what the issue is here.

As we see in this article trying to be analytical about the phenomenon leads right to accusations of siding with specific cases. Just seems like such a minefield even if you give the “correct” answer.

Dude, do you keep a database of all the posts anyone here ever makes?

Jesus Christ, that cat has some uncomfortably large whiskers.

“AV Club Commenter Fails to Get the Point”

Aww — is the poor White Man feeling all persecuted because he can’t be applauded for his thoughtless if not outright malicious bigotry any more...?

Bryan Cranston, also gave his thoughts on Cancel Culture™ recently, and said things along the same lines. I might be out of line here, but to simply note that sometimes it can get out of hand seems reasonable enough to say, right?

With the caveat that I have not read Mr. Beans’ statement in full, I have to say the parts quoted in this article sound like really good points. And then this article sounds like a perfect example of what he is talking about. Maybe the author of this article meant it to be like a meta ironic commentary? Like what bean…

There's like a dozen cancel hashtags on Twitter at any given moment, but the AV Club still thinks "cancel culture" is a manufactured boogeyman of old white guys.

he joins a chorus of privileged public figures who have felt a need to speak out against this maligned “cancel culture”—which tends to actually consist of marginalized communities speaking out against sustained, systemic abuse

Will 2021 be the year we all finally acknowledge that social media is a branding exercise and literally nothing else? And we can finally treat everything stated in that space as an advertisement for whatever is being stated and the person stating it?

You know the more I think about it , the more the show needs a clean slate reboot ,in an infinite universe of millions of possible stories with an inifinte number of planets and races , it keeps telling the same story over and over .I mean you could play ;Who cliché Bingo’ with the New Years episode. Daleks (check)…

I was hoping 2021 would be the year celebrities come back to life.

I didn’t start watching GBBO until Noel joined the cast... I’ve had a ridiculous crush on him since I was 26 and I’m... A lot older than that now. Vince Noir is everything. I still wear a button of The Hitcher’s face on my favorite sweater.

Well, that escalated quickly.

Medicine Man.  It turns out the bug poop was the cure for cancer in that one 

It definitely has more of a pronounced following now than it did when it flopped in 1996. (See the link on the title in my piece, which will direct you to another recent Watch This entry!) I feel like a lot of people have made it their designated “Burton hasn’t made a good movie since...” go-to, which I find pretty…