The Great Cancel Debate has been quite the thing. I think a lot of the anger over people being "cancelled" has more to do with which side you stand on--are you with the person cancelled or against them?
And let's be realistic: Rowling is a billionaire who still gets to freely tweet. I'm not sure how she's been cancelled, other than people having an angry response to what she has freely said.
And before social media, plenty of cancellations happened. Terrible ones, like the McCarthy hearings, our own government driving out people like Eartha Kitt for having the audacity of a vocalized opinion... churches cancelled people for millennia...
None of this is new. It's just a lot more openly debated.
The people I worry about the most are those who truly got caught up in things they don't understand. Like the utility crew worker who was recorded flashing an okay sign when provoked to do so, not knowing that it is now an alt-right sign. I thought Avatar: The Last Airbender (often referred to as ATLA) was a delight. I did use someone's episode guide to skip a few episodes... not sure if I can find it anymore, given that this was on livejournal. But even though I started watching while visiting nephews and nieces, I finished watching on my own because I liked it. It was perfect "watch while eating dinner" fare--not gruesome, short enough to stop at one episode if needed, but still entertaining.
You already know my positive opinion about Warrior Nun. (It fits into the "supernatural soap" genre--but with way more women than those shows usually have.)
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And let's be realistic: Rowling is a billionaire who still gets to freely tweet. I'm not sure how she's been cancelled, other than people having an angry response to what she has freely said.
And before social media, plenty of cancellations happened. Terrible ones, like the McCarthy hearings, our own government driving out people like Eartha Kitt for having the audacity of a vocalized opinion... churches cancelled people for millennia...
None of this is new. It's just a lot more openly debated.
The people I worry about the most are those who truly got caught up in things they don't understand. Like the utility crew worker who was recorded flashing an okay sign when provoked to do so, not knowing that it is now an alt-right sign.
I thought Avatar: The Last Airbender (often referred to as ATLA) was a delight. I did use someone's episode guide to skip a few episodes... not sure if I can find it anymore, given that this was on livejournal. But even though I started watching while visiting nephews and nieces, I finished watching on my own because I liked it. It was perfect "watch while eating dinner" fare--not gruesome, short enough to stop at one episode if needed, but still entertaining.
You already know my positive opinion about Warrior Nun. (It fits into the "supernatural soap" genre--but with way more women than those shows usually have.)