Jon Stewart Slams Comedians Crying About 'Cancel Culture'

[AZProgressive]

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. My thoughts are, "You're paid extremely well...

... to be in the public spotlight, so don't complain when that spotlight causes criticism towards you sometimes."

They could instead walk away and try to blend into the background as I've done most of my life, but that kind of introverted behavior typically isn't financially lucrative either.

There's all kinds of dummies out there who've become wealthy simply from their willingness to be the center of attention.

Heck, that insatiable desire for attention even vaulted a moron like Donald Trump to the Presidency.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
... There was not a single call that Trump deemed too private for Schwartz to hear. “He loved the attention,” Schwartz recalls. “If he could have had three hundred thousand people listening in, he would have been even happier.”
This year, Schwartz has heard some argue that there must be a more thoughtful and nuanced version of Donald Trump that he is keeping in reserve for after the campaign. “There isn’t,” Schwartz insists. “There is no private Trump.” This is not a matter of hindsight. While working on “The Art of the Deal,” Schwartz kept a journal in which he expressed his amazement at Trump’s personality, writing that Trump seemed driven entirely by a need for public attention. “All he is is ‘stomp, stomp, stomp’—recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular,” he observed, on October 21, 1986...

[JohnSJ]

2. Well said. The ironic thing about "cancel culture", according to Maher's definition of it, he

exhibits it all the time. He is the poster child of cancel culture toward anyone who disagrees with him

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Talk

Talk like an asshole expect some people will treat you like one.

Cancel culture is assholes saying shit they know is wrong and not liking being treated like the assholes they reveal they are.

[2Gingersnaps]

4. Leave it to Jon Stewart to cut to the heart of the matter.

Hope he has enjoyed his step back and is ready to come charging back. Common decency isn't so common, neither is common sense. "Consequences culture" is tough on people unaccustomed to such inconveniences

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Cancel culture has to some extent filtered out liberal points of view since the 1980s

Liberal support for the environment. Sitcom story lines with single parent, gay couples, tolerant lessons. The Religious Right would go on a whole letter writing campaign to network affiliates and HQ demanding changes in the shows, and in some instances getting them. Some affiliates dropped network shows on occasion.

So don't tell me this is something new, or we should be tolerant of the new great open discourse. I'm guessing comedians don't feel it because they weren't shunned or censored. But it was there, and now the purity tests are invading our school curriculum.