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RE: There is no "backlash" for Dave Chappelle and he can't be cancelled
Absolutely agree. I don't understand how at least one of the failing networks would just continue to run in the same direction they have been going despite the fact that it isn't working anymore. I think this would have been a fantastic time for somebody to emerge as a real news source that isn't biased.
In regards to Chappelle it is just so predictable and it has been divided down party lines again as far as media opinion on this is concerned. The good news for Dave is that he probably doesn't care and doesn't need any of those guys anyway.
What did PT Barnum say, "There's no such thing as bad publicity." And that country song, "Celebrity" by Brad Paisley..."the more they run my name down the more my price goes up." So thank you "Media." :)
Well i think Barnum lived in a different time. Today in the age of the perpetually offended, cancel culture is real but Chappelle is just too big. Plus, he doesn't really want to do what he is doing anyway and could walk away any time and be just fine with it. The woke mob ruins everything they touch. Thankfully, Dave is kind of untouchable.
Even though I think cancel culture is a bunch of misguided self-aggrandizing rubes looking for a problem to fill a solution...I don't think Americans have changed much over the last couple centuries...there was probably always “an offended” culture.
The only difference now maybe is we're seeing more of it...the late 1960s and early 1970s we saw a lot of it as well. Political movements in the US have always been messy. And movements are a sort of metastasizing mass also, the original message may have been sound, but it usually grows into some kind of incoherent babbling monstrosity as time passes.
And the US system hasn't been working tremendously well for more and more folks over the past few decades; offshoring jobs, less 'trade' jobs like manufacturing, failing infrastructure, rising debt, partisanship, no clear vision, growing wealth inequality, great power competition, etc…
Cancel culture is probably a manifestation of all of those things...that's why I think they're misguided.
They're legitimately pissed...but they’re pissed about the wrong thing. Cancel culture thinks it's something to do with individualism or identity or social inequality...it's not, it's about higher debt, wealth inequality and economic uncertainty. In other words, America isn't racist, its broke!
Cancel culture is kind of like a bully beating up a kid at school...not because he doesn't like the kid, but rather he's pissed about his shitty home life and he takes it out on someone who has nothing to do with it...plus, the kid is a much easier target for the bully...rather than addressing it with his own parents.
And the United States has also promoted a culture of normalizing higher debt to income ratios. Americans are more accustomed to thinking that debt equates to wealth. Student, auto, home, and consumer debt are consuming the balance sheets of a growing number of households...which is a huge contributor to wealth inequality.
For lack of a better way of saying it, we are breeding fiscal complacency. Or even better, we are becoming spoiled little brats with money. And growing more accustomed to getting something for nothing. We build less and we want more.
Once we start to address our debt and wealth issue, cancel culture and other populist movements will have less of a leg to stand on, because people will be happier.
That's my take on it anyway.
wonderful response. Love it!
Yes, this is correct. I saw the other day that not that long ago Rand Paul went out on Halloween as the national debt and it was meant to be scary because it was 10 trillion dollars. Oh how far we have come since then!