It’s something I struggle with. Some bad news comes out about some public persona doing something shitty and they get cancelled. But sometimes I really struggle with giving up the things they’ve made because I like them. There are also occasions where the person has been accused of something and it doesn’t seem true to me, or I think they’re genuinely sorry and have been punished enough, and the context isn’t being considered.
What do you think? Who do you feel conflicted about enjoying?
I wonder if you know what you mean when you talk about people being canceled. Looking at all of the answers, I see all of these people who have done things that raised some public pressure against them and yet many of them are still active in public life. So they didn’t get canceled?
Seriously, can you give me a list of people who actually got canceled, where they had to abandon their entire career and never got it back? And who weren’t close to retirement age at the time? Of course, let’s exclude the people who got locked up in prison because that’s about being convicted of a crime, not about social justice.