Definitely. Right now they’re “cancelling” Bill Burr because he went and did a show in Saudi Arabia. One of the left’s staunchest allies for years and one of the few males on the left that young boys can actually identify with and he’s in the trashcan for doing a show with the Saudis. It’s bonkers.
If anyone is not cancelable it Bill Burr. Cancel culture is pretty defanged at the moment.
Now we get US Government and POTUS backed cancel culture in the form of lawfare / weaponized partisan govt agencies instead.
Action by the state cannot be cancel culture by definition, that's just sparkling repression.
I'm a leftist who has been a Bill Burr fan, and who is wildly disappointed he did a show in Saudi Arabia because of the naked hypocrisy of it.
Listen to his own past comments (starting at 30 seconds in):
https://youtu.be/1Jp4Ce8yStA?si=wThUQtlRJo07Qn1Y&t=30
He did exactly what past him was (rightfully) calling someone else out for. So, yeah, I think its fair game to call him out for it.
Voicing your displeasure that someone did something is not "cancelling" them (whatever that even means anymore).
Don’t kid yourself, you are effectively “canceling” them in an environment where the federal government is already making it hard for them to express their views. The left needs to have more of a long term view rather than just pulling down all the people standing up for them at the slightest deviation from what is expected. Soon there won’t be anyone left and the other team is chomping at the bit to eat you up.
‘Effectively canceling?’ Is Bill Burr silenced somehow?
Ironically, he is being silenced - the contracts he signed in order to perform prohibit badmouthing the Saudi regime and its policies
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I'm not "left", but I liked Bill Burr even though he's fairly uneducated and populist.
That's because Bill Burr is a hypocrite for it. He complains about billionaires and the rich, complains about not enough free speech (but Saudi stipulation was censorship about royals and religion), and complains about other people doing exactly what he did[0] (still sleazy if he says he'd do it too). He acts like he's Carlin, rants about other people's $ but he's really only about his own $ too.
People thought he held sincere ethics and would speak on them. They're disappointed he's just another greedy rich guy he was complaining to everyone about.
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