I don’t want to conflate “cancel culture” with folks having a conversation about these issues. I think that’s super important. If Lizzo thought about it and decided to apologize, that’s her choice and I respect it. But I think this also sets an unreasonable standard and precedent for other artists. The whole purpose…

No, it’s not at all good. It’s derivative, obvious, and tired. Plus, he can’t sing for shit. Willow was the sole reason I was able to get through the whole thing.

It’s fun that people seem to be missing out on the aspect that giving corporations carte blanche to do whatever they want will eventually backfire as their power and influence continues to supersede national borders and governments. 

That comment can literally be applied to any minority group that you are not part of and it’s bullshit 

Gonna break rank with a lot of friends here but this shit is stupid. I watched the special. I didn’t agree with everything he said but what was said was not said with hate or malice. It was stand up.

Then basically anyone can hyperbolically label anything they don’t like as “hate speech” and then they’re back to square one. This particular special is very unlikely to meet their, or most other definitions of “hate speech.” It isn’t making any calls to violence, nor is it actively endorsing legal segregation. It is…

Except that does very much weigh on all of these decisions and when you are a media company that provides a wide range of material it’s basically a guaranty that some percentage of your content will be deemed offensive by some subsection of your audience. Living in absolute fear of offending some people is a recipe…

The ‘harm’ is a lot of hooey.

And the next person to be offended by something on their service will also say they have really really really good reasons for demanding they thing they don’t like is also harmful and needs to be removed. And so will the next person, and the next person, and the next person and so on. And if they ever say no to one of…

They weren’t in the greys when I replied to them, and unless someone’s an active and well-known troll I prefer to reply to people on the merits of what they say rather than digging through their history.

1. I didn’t like the special much and think people have good reason to criticize it.

Good for them.  Some people need to learn to re-separate “I don’t like this” from “I need to save everybody from this.”

Well, I actually watched the special. Here’s its list of sins, in my book:

I’m going to guess that Dave Chapelle is popular with plenty of minorities.

“But instead of recognizing that Chappelle’s words are harmful to trans people, Sarandos doubled down.” - Nice even-handed reporting there. Good job on crossing the line from reporting to spin.

Weird to criticize how the media diminishes what Jolie wants to talk about by posting an article that diminishes what Jolie wants to talk about.

You’re more than “allowed” to be pissed off at whatever you want, you’re ENTITLED to be so, (at least as long as you’re a US citizen,)

These people think they are better and smarter than most folks and look down on others who like things Joe Rogan. Imagine taking time to write a long article about something you could just ignore.

FFS, IT’S an INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED PODCAST!!!!

Rogan had welcomed Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard on the podcast, but he turned down requests to host Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden. He said he’d prefer to “talk to his friends,” which presumably didn’t include the first openly gay presidential candidate, a…