Some cancelled people also show up, like, two weeks later and pretend nothing ever happened.  And, given the toxic state of our culture, legions of people are happy to welcome them back to, I dunno, own the libs or something. 

So, just so we’re clear, Heard cut off the tip of Depp’s finger, but then Depp told two different sets of doctors that he did it, and also scrawled a bunch of nonsense around the house in his own blood (the way assault victims are known to do)?

Cancel culture is another phrase that’s been weaponized by the right in their ongoing culture wars (see: “woke”, “fake news”, etc etc). They’re using it to claim the left is out deplatforming anyone who crosses them, when the reality is it just means celebrities might actually be held accountable for things they do…

I agree with the pointlessness of melee weapons.

Plenty of people can get “uncancelled,” it’s just the roads to that are myriad and there’s not an established path for any given person. Also, it takes a lot longer than most rich/famous people would like because every year they’re not relevant is lost money or exposure for themselves, I’m sure.

The surest way I’ve…

JFC. The Depp stans are crawling all over this thread, replying shrilly to every single comment.

All I can think of when people float this idea is that I sincerely thought for years that Eric Cartman’s ridiculous anti-semitism was not a problem because anti-semitism was long gone. It seemed as ludicrous to me as his irrational response to hippies. Needless to say, I didn’t run in very Jewish circles.

Funny how the people who complain loudest about cancel culture (not a thing, doesn’t exist) are the ones who are never in danger of any actual consequences.

Just once I want to see one of these supposedly canceled people going to school to learn a trade. 

It’s not exactly hard to understand, Jen. It’s a phrase stupid people use when they forget that we already have the word “consequences”.

“[In the past] you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh—that was hysterical. And it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were. And now we’re not allowed to do that.”

That’s right, you’re not. My friends and I did that all the time in the 90s, saying something racist to lampoon racism. But here’s the…

can everybody please just fucking shut the fuck up about fucking “cancel culture”. please. please just shut the fuck up about it.

I mean, he did that shit. Were they shitty to each other? Seems that way, but considering the crux of the lawsuit was defamation, and the jury actually found he did (at least some) of the shit she described, there really isn’t much of a story there in the micro. The macro (him paying for influencers to advocate on his…

This shit is so exhausting. The Depp stans refuse to comprehend the fact that he was even moderately abusive, and folks that want to advocate for victims of domestic abuse didn’t spend every waking hour consuming TikTok and Youtube coverage of the trial for two months. There’s even less actual discourse than your…

It’s also sort of the point of journalism, to assess the facts and provide an opinion.

Cera’s 60 seconds onscreen in This Is The End might be the most efficiently outstanding appearance in any film I can remember. He just comes in on fire, never lets up, and goes out spectacularly.

I’m tired of neutrality being held up as some flawless ideal for all situations.  Sometimes it’s OK, necessary even, to pick a goddamn side.

When watching older movies in my household (three teenagers), we’ve always referred to them as “’80s PG”. You might get some bad words like shit, bitch, a couple f-bombs plus maybe a boob flash, but still not an R like it would be today.

This was a great adaptation. The studios will return to find the audience found something else to do besides streaming and TV. They’re cutting their own throats.

I enjoy the show, and have read all of the Foundation books. They were formative for me. I re-read the first two recently, and...well, I don’t think they’re all that good anymore. Even if I did, using the fact that an adaptation isn’t all that faithful to the original as a reason to question the intelligence of the…