Uh I hit enter too soon. What I was going to say is that if you want an in-depth look at cancellation by someone who has lived it and demonstrates how these things gets out of hand, you should check out ContraPoints’ video essay about cancellation.

Contrapoints has a fucking phenomenal video essay about cancelling. 

Yes — she is a truly kind-hearted person who is just bursting with empathy. Did you see the videos where she bought fish and purchased a spherical bowl (which apparently is disorienting for fish)? She was legitimately heartbroken and apologized profusely. And that was just fish! I know she’s hurting now & that makes…

This. Just because not everyone they want to get cancelled ends up getting actually canceled, doesn’t mean cancel culture doesn’t exist. It does. Sometimes it’s justified and sometimes it’s a bunch of groupthink idiots being the modern day equivalent of torch bearing mobs. Either way, it’s not a very effective way of…

Yeah. I’ve argued this a lot over the past few weeks. No amount of change or positive forward progress is enough for these people. Jenna was cringey years back, but she apologized and recognized that and changed LONG before all of this. She didn’t deserve to be harassed.

Jenna doesn’t need to leave the platform. It’s good that she is taking time away from all the hateful feedback that she’s gotten, but she shouldn’t be pushed off YouTube for it. Jenna has consistently worked to make positive change, for herself and her channel. The videos she posts now are all about having fun without…

Jezebel article from yesterday: “Cancel Culture Still Isn’t Real”

First of all, Jenna Marbles didn’t do blackface. She had a dark tan when she worked in a tanning shop. Tacky? Yes. Blackface? No. She had that tan in every video at the time.

Jenna, despite her old videos (which were not classy in their time but would not have warranted the outrage they do today), is like, the least problematic YouTuber on the platform now. She is conscientious to the max, as her apology video shows. She is the opposite of pretentious, which is amazing considering how…

The bigger mystery to me is, who watches these videos? Who follows these people and wants to listen to basic people spewing basic shit for 45 minutes, which could be condensed into 2 minutes but they stretch it out foreeeeever to get more $$$$?

I have some experience with this. Being sent away/“rehomed” is profoundly traumatizing, even when it’s in a divorce situation, with the child in question moving from parent to parent. It doesn’t matter how nurturing the parents are. The child internalizes it as a problem with them, and the sibs question whether it can…

Oh my god, “gotcha day”? My brother and I were adopted as infants, and it was VERY clear to us from the get-go - even though it was never actually said in so many words - that the days we were born were the days that we were born into our family, regardless of how many days it took for us to be officially placed in…

That’s the part that really gets me too - they’re sharing info about his life and his medical situation that they have no right to share.  Doing so isn’t in his best interest, it’s just in theirs, because they want to make sure that no one thinks badly of them.  They’re clearly not equipped to be good parents to him,…

This ‘family as performance’ shit is angering in ways I cannot reasonably put into words using my mushy quarantine brain.

What exactly is Junior supposed to bring to the table, more viewpoints of a wealthy white man?

HI. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT.

Uh, what? I think it’s highly reasonable for a company to never rehire someone who violated federal employment law again. No one is saying he can’t work anywhere again for the rest of his life. And sexual misconduct wasn’t a career-killer for your Republican president either, so feel free to gtfo with that partisan…

In GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING PLANET news, an intelligence report warned of novel coronavirus comeback in November 2019

Melania Trump emerged from her hidey hole

This.

I got angry at a friend earlier this week who was trying to shame a person for charging $20 for the masks that they were sewing with custom fabric that they had designed (originally for a different purpose). I tried to make the point that it is not the responsibility of those of us with a passing understanding…