Cancel culture

Frisella argues that comedy serves as a vehicle for uncomfortable truths.

“Comedy is a Trojan horse for the uncomfortable truth that people don't want to hear”

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Frisella explains, without condoning it, that Chud's behavior results from white people being harassed for years.

“that's the result of white people being fucking harassed on the fucking street for years and years”

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Frisella attributes current provocative behavior to a backlash against 15 years of cancel culture.

“a backlash of the result of the last 15 years of cancel culture and speech restrictions”

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Frisella says the black-white divide is the country's biggest handicap but is narrowing.

“Our biggest handicap in this country right now is the division between black and white. And it's closing”

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Using the Salem witch trials as an analogy, Rock argues that problems arise when such movements are institutionalized.

“But then you open up a witch office and now you got to start lying”

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Rock argues that wokeness, while valuable for giving marginalized people a voice, resembles the Old Testament in lacking forgiveness.

“But the problem with wokeness is we're in the Old Testament right now, okay? And the Old Testament has no forgiveness”

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Rock defends staying friends with a canceled friend, arguing that friendship that lasts only through good times is not friendship.

“And I was like, well, if you're only friends with your friends when they're good, they're not your friends, you know?”

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Rock argues that people who take offense are not oversensitive but mean.

“People are like, oh, people are so sensitive. I'm like, no, they're not sensitive. They're mean”

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Claudia Oshry called Lizzo an unusual example of an artist actually being brought down by scandal.

“We always say no one's really cancelable, but Lizzo's been such an interesting example”

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Claudia Oshry argues cancellations are most effective when allegations contradict a celebrity's public persona, citing Ellen DeGeneres and Lizzo.

“You can't have a show about kindness and be the nastiest bitch on the planet. You can't be a body positive queen who's calling all your dancers fat”

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Claudia Oshry argues Lizzo is among the few celebrities genuinely wiped out by cancel culture.

“there are some people who it genuinely wipes out. And I feel like Lizzo is one of those people”

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Rogan said that around 2016 audiences began treating comedic lines as sincere statements.

“it started to turn a corner where it became like people are starting to take these things as statements rather than as comedy material”

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Rogan argued that outrage has become a profitable commodity driving online engagement.

“There's money in outrage. There's engagement in outrage. Outrage is the commodity that everybody wants”

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OnlyJayus says online hate no longer affects her because critics only know short clips of her, not her as a person.

“If they hate you, they hate that little clip of you online. They don't know you”

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OnlyJayus says being canceled worsened her insomnia but ultimately humbled her and made her better.

“I think it worked out. I think it humbled me a bit. It made me better”

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Kelly says she opposes cancel culture but that ABC must be held to its own standards.

“Stu, and so while neither you nor I are fans of cancel culture, I believe we must make them play by their own rules”

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Kelly said the best response to any attempted cancellation is simply to keep going.

“Keep going is literally the best advice for anyone facing cancellation of any kind. Just keep going”

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Kroll argues that a more thoughtful approach creates more room for performers to play different kinds of people.

“I think there's a general attempt to be more thoughtful about what we're doing or how we're doing it”

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Kroll says he would not play his Sit Down, Shut Up character today but feels cultural attitudes are settling.

“I don't think I would play that character right now, but I do think things are settling a bit”

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Osipova says the stalker emailed her business and media contacts, causing people to stop working with her.

“And people started canceling me. They didn't want to work with me because they thought it was true”

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Soffer contrasted Roseanne Barr's firing with Taylor Frankie Paul's retention, saying media sets arbitrary lines that Paul had not crossed.

“I think that Roseanne crossed a line in media that you cannot cross. I guess Taylor didn't”

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Dangerfield argues that the real "woke right" are conservatives demanding public disavowals, mirroring the left's purity tests.

“It's the people in the right who are trying to say you need to publicly disavow others because that's what the left did”

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Kelly argues that cancel culture lost its force a few years ago and is now treated as a badge of honor.

“I felt like cancel culture was irrelevant three, two, three years ago. Now it's like a badge of honor”

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Massey said the poetry establishment continues to attack him, including a podcaster who admitted he had been framed.

“While admitting that he went over all the material about my cancellation and determined that I was framed and railroaded”

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