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Total mismanagement from Netflix, but unfortunately very unsurprising given their cult-like company culture.

Also, let me grab my bat. I’ll help.

:fidel-bat:

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Now what is the real “cancel culture”

:cap-think:

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Chappelle bragged about being “cancelled” because of some negative tweets he got and people saying they’re done with him. Its like motherfucker, you gained fans from this and said an opinion that over 100 million Americans agree with or at least DGAF.

I still think the only person to ever get “cancelled” is Colin Kaepernick. Dave will be fine and still adored as a comedian.

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The Dixie Chicks were not much spoken of in the 2000s after Natalie Maines spoke out about Bush. They managed a comeback years later but were kinda out during some of their prime years.

Bill Maher was literally canceled but then ended up on HBO so that’s a wash.

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The Dixie Chicks were at the height of their careers and one of the top acts in the world. Overnight, you’d be hard pressed to find a single radio station that would play them. Their comeback during the Trump years was basically riding the culture war for a comeback, but the original cancellation was legit a massive push from those in power to silence them

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I had no idea who they were prior to the Bush thing. I’m also in Canada where we got to spend the Iraq war feeling really superior to Americans, so I think they actually got more airplay here afterwards.

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I remember a lot of communists getting canceled during the red scare and McCarthyism of the 1950s….

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True. I guess I should’ve qualified my last statement with “during the era of ‘cancel culture’”. I feel like canceling became a term/thing people use in the last 5 years.

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Celebrities and MSM do plenty to hype up “cancel culture” despite the fact that most of the time these “cancelled” celebrities stay and sometimes become more relevant. I fucking hate having to constantly hear about celebrities who whine about cancel culture.

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Norm Finkelstein tho

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I haven’t heard a peep from Michael Richards in like 15 years.

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Al Qaeda #cancelled the World Trade Center, much to the chagrin of the losers and haters

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Nah, dozens of people have been cancelled and had their entire careers ruined for merely criticizing the zionist regime.

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TBh, lots of people start disappearing from the mainstream when they start to get too radical, Kaepernick, Thunberg, Malala, the more radical teenagers from Parkland (some of them were abolitionists, bet you didn’t know).

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also some people were rightfully cancelled, like, Andrea Smith for instance got dropped the minute she was outed as a pretendian

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Does this mean that Netflix is going to give the trans employee her own comedy special now?

-7DeadlyFetishes

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It would be better than anything that terf has ever made.

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Literally anything is better than Terf comedy. All terf comedy follows the same beat of “Millenials now want us to call them by thier preferred pronoun! What? can I call myself (insert teh epic random object here)?”

-7DeadlyFetishes

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What? can I call myself (insert teh epic random object here)?

To which I would reply “sure. If that is how you identify and it makes you happier than I will do that.”

If/when they keep going though, you are then obligated to gently pull the trigger on your rifle and send them back to terf hell.

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DO IT YOU COWARDS! FUCK IT! GIVE EVERYONE A NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL! I’m pretty funny. I could manage.

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GIVE EVERYONE A NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

They basically have.

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The twitter thread from the woman Netflix fired is especially powerful and I encourage everyone to read it:

https://twitter.com/rainofterra/status/1445914236668895236?s=21

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