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My name is Luca
I live on the ocean floor

Gosh, Kid Rock is turning out to be a real Ellie Kemper

Yes, but... Isnt’ this the Kid Rock we want and need? I mean, we don’t need Kid Rock, obviously, but if Kid Rock is going to continue to exist in this world, isn’t this the kind of Kid Rock we want him to be? I’m not sure I can even comprehend a world where Kid Rock is a reasonable, enlightened human being who can…

Thank you for this. You took the metaphorical hacksaw to this disgusting piece of writing.

The funny thing is that I’m not some huge fan of Kemper’s. I didn’t watch The Office. I thought that she was good in Bridesmaids. I liked Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and thought that she was good in it, too, but it’s not like she’s one of my favorite actors.

Fair enough, and I can’t be arsed to figure out how much is misrepresentation in the original articles (okay, the Root went pretty heavy on the Klan angle) and how much is just me misinterpreting which Confederate-founded organization with stupid costumes and titles,and a penchant for upholding their idealized class…

I think that, at best, when someone genuinely has issues with “cancel culture” they’re just talking about their fear of being harassed  en masse. That’s always been a problem even before the internet.

To me, it’s very similar to the evolution of the term “fake news”. The fact that Trump and co. realized the term could be used as a catchall defense against any legitimate news articles they didn’t like, doesn’t mean that the intentional spread of disinformation, the reason the term exists in the first place, isn’t a …

Pretty much this. There’s no filter. It’s just casting a wide net and if some benign dirt from 20 years ago gets scooped up for the sake of a juicy story and industry representatives on social media take notice, what’s a few casualties in service of rooting out and exposing real and current threats to acceptable…

The point is that the right wing only trots out the term “cancel culture” when that negativity, rightly or wrongly, is in response to something bigoted. It’s not brought out when that negativity is the bigotry itself, such as when marginalizd groups speak up for themselves and get harrassed as a result. It’s the…

“Defending” in this case meaning “calling racist idiots racist idiots”, which seems more like pure good fun to do than actual defending.

Interestingly, the human version of Matthew from Swamp Thing was played by a black guy in the TV show from 2019.

Ok it’s “hip” but it’s also “giving minorities major roles and representation they’ve been denied since TV and movies were invented”.

I just hope they retain Death’s style; it’s about time Black goths got their time in the shade.

Hi, police? Come quick, there’s been a murder.

As a great admirer of the Smiths and his early solo work, I take no pleasure in saying that yes, Morrissey has demonstrated time and again that he is a racist prick and he deserves to be shunned. Unlike Ellie Kemper, you hacks.

But, the purity tests, they feel so good!

I genuinely can’t wrap my mind around how so many seemingly intelligent writers actually, truly believe that this says anything at all about Ellie Kemper’s character. Just insane, the bubbles some people live in.

When *some* people say “Cancel culture is a thing”, this is what they mean. Not the “it’s just consequence for your actions” kind of meaning.