Exactly. For all the people who have been “cancelled”, it seems to have made little to no difference, and they still show up everywhere.

I came here to say the same thing regarding “punching down” and “don’t do it.”

That Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes in 2020 is ironclad proof that the supposed excesses of “cancel culture” are not actually a thing, but only exist in the fever dreams of people who desperately want to shout the n-word and use “gay” as an insult. 

The Herb

That’s cute that you think young “Democrats” are responsible for this nonsense.

How you blaming the Asian guy with no exposure for Harris’ poorly run campaign?

This 100%. The article is credulously predicated on the idea that some critical mass of internet users understood “Kamala is a cop” to mean, like, literally that she’s a cop. Or that she REALLY bid adieu to a bus full of prison-bound mothers with a wave and a touch to the heart. I mean, to even include that latter…

“they’ve gone to great lengths to deny Harris’s blackness, as a biracial woman. (Harris’s father is Jamaican; her mother is Indian.)“

We are a big, lazy, incurious country. Fake news works on anyone who doesn’t do critical thinking. There are plenty of liberal people like that.

You could’ve just asked people in the breakroom - educated, reasonably informed multiracial group of millennial people on the left - why they didn’t support her for president. They didn’t - we didn’t. “Kamala is a cop” was widely understood to be shorthand referencing her prosecutorial record instead of just a low-info…

Not all women senators are the same person.

The Kamala is a Cop thing only hurt her insofar as she was unprepared to defend her record as a prosecutor when it was raised against her. A good response to it could have easily turned it into a strength, but what really seems to have killed her campaign was a lack of strategic thinking that had her trying to make…

It’s weird how comfortable people are in expressing the surprise that black candidates don’t automatically get black votes.  Curious if that would be expressed for white voters...

Kamala got tanked by not having anything to offer that wasn’t already available from better candidates. Her only moment in the spotlight was making Joe Biden look like an out of touch old white dude which is a really low bar to aim for in the first place.

“Former USFL team owner Donald Trump went to a baseball game...”

And despite your corporate overlords telling you to stick to sports, I hope Deadspin never does because

and I can’t emphasize this enough

I come to Deadspin BECAUSE YOU DON’T JUST STICK TO SPORTS