I just wish these clowns would understand that no one is trying to take away their right to open up their mouths and speak. It’s the garbage that comes out of your mouths that people decided they don’t want to hear.

I was literally just talking about this. I wish there were more "I was a dumbass" apologies. Like "I did that thing because sometimes I'm a dumbass, and that was a dumbass thing to do. I'm sorry." It definitely reads as more sincere than all the "To those I've hurt: I see you, I hear you, and I am listening."…

I’m somewhat as you state that you state that it is a big thing that she lost a huge opportunity because of this, yet everything else you write is about how this is not that big of a deal?

Yeah. Recently I’ve had very mixed feelings about Alexi McCammond’s firing from Vogue Teen, which this article reminded me of.

There are a lot of fields where unpaid or extremely low paid internships are basically part of the career path. You can’t make it in the field if you don’t have education and work ethic, but you can’t make it though that period of low pay unless you’ve got access to other money. Even in my field, a lot of people’s…

Teens are notoriously stupid, and also probably in the thick of working though any shit they got from their families. Like, if an adult made some bonkers comments as a teen, I think it’s ok to be like “Hey, you don’t still think that, right?” but not everyone grew up in like... good households. I undoubtedly made some…

Before really going in to that shrugging response of yours, I feel the need to provide some context for its tone. I’ve now for about a decade been doing volunteer work with the teenagers, who by the way say ridiculously stupid things. It’s not okay when they say it and we’ve had constant discussions with various teens…

What exactly are you purporting to criticize?  Are there specific examples you are taking issue with?

However, having written that, I’ve also seen events of people paying a, to me, far disproportionate a price for dumb tweets or comments from ages ago because of that current social media backlash

She is referring to classism, the myth of equal opportunity for all,  and the myth of American meritocracy in her argument but she is not giving good specific examples of this to explain her point better. Class mobility is a myth under a capitalist economy, but that idea that if, By golly, you just put in the hard…

I think that’s what she’s getting at - it’s that educational opportunities aren’t just based on the student’s level of accomplishment. If your parents can afford to send you to SAT/LSAT prep courses, that’s a huge advantage. If you can go intern for nothing with Senator X’s office for a summer so they’ll write you a…

I worked in college PR for a hot minute and was in a FB group for people with this same job and it was really depressing how many teens messaged colleges about “you better take a look at THIS teen, they’re not worthy of your school actually!! Get rid of em!”

Remember the Dixie Chicks?

Also cancel culture doesn’t mean what you think it does?

Exfuckingazactly.

Excommunication was a thing. If you think that’s ancient history, how about the women I know who were fired from their jobs for being unwed mothers in the past 50 years?

I’ve actually also felt that tension, but what I think pulls me back is the notion that:

“Cancel culture” is just a term Republicans made up because it’s starting to affect them. Whenver the church or “moral” group calls for boycotting they never call it cancel culture. Remember when relgious nuts burned the Beatles records becasue John Lennon said “we’re more popular than Jesus”? 

Thanks for this article. I’m not sure what the context would be, but I hope to bump into Dr. James someday.

What bugs me the most about the voices calling for an end to “cancel culture” is their attempt to paint it as something only bad awful left people do, and to suggest it’s something recent. When in fact ostracizing people for their words, actions, or even just rumors is quite ancient, and heavily practiced by…