Juno News - November 03, 2021


What's the future of cancel culture？


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Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

190.29395

Word Count

779

Sentence Count

34

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What's the future of cancel culture? I was mulling that question over when I saw the latest figure,
00:00:10.500 the latest celebrity, to come out against cancel culture. None other than the singer Madonna. Yes,
00:00:16.700 the material girl stepping forward in a recent interview in a magazine to say she's frustrated
00:00:21.440 with the fact that there's things you just can't talk about now or you will get canceled, and she
00:00:26.480 was denouncing it. Now, it seemed like one of the things she was frustrated about was vaccinations.
00:00:31.460 She said she wanted to talk about vaccinations in a different way or what have you. I don't know what
00:00:35.660 her particular views on vaccines are. I'm not here to defend them, whatever they are, but it was still
00:00:40.160 interesting that everybody hits a point. Whatever the issue is, whether it's telling jokes like the
00:00:46.280 Dave Chappelle situation, telling offensive jokes, or talking about vaccines in whatever way you want,
00:00:51.900 whatever way Madonna wanted to talk about the vaccines, it seems like for a lot of people there's
00:00:57.020 kind of a breaking point where they finally say, okay, I've had enough. I don't support this. And
00:01:02.660 they come out publicly and they say, I don't like this whole cancel culture thing. It was kind of
00:01:07.380 interesting to see author Margaret Atwood get in a bit of hot water for tweeting out a column about
00:01:13.760 transgender issues and the idea that language is being sort of revised and rewritten and is the idea
00:01:19.460 of womanhood and women. Is that sort of being erased when it comes to how we have to change our
00:01:24.900 language when it comes to transgender issues? And Margaret Atwood was attacked. This isn't the
00:01:29.020 first time it's happened with Margaret Atwood. She's brought up other issues where it suggests that
00:01:33.380 she's not all that supportive of the cancel culture, silencing people for not saying the perfect
00:01:39.160 thing, for not saying the right thing at the right moment, for not wording the tweet, you know,
00:01:43.240 the right way. And it all got me wondering, does everybody sort of have their moment when they
00:01:48.080 realize, oh, they like to cancel all these things that they would want to see canceled,
00:01:52.060 but suddenly, oh no, it's gone too far because now I would like to say something or, oh, here's
00:01:56.060 someone who was canceled and I don't think they should be. So I'm finally going to stand up for
00:01:59.660 them. And do they, when they see those examples, just defend that one individual in that one
00:02:04.480 instance, or do they realize, oh, well, hold on a second. I guess it shouldn't just be about
00:02:09.160 canceling the people you don't like. Maybe this whole idea of the fact that if we see someone
00:02:14.420 saying something, we hear someone saying something we don't agree with, maybe the answer isn't just
00:02:19.500 to completely like destroy them in their livelihoods and totally remove them from the public sphere and
00:02:25.040 sort of erase them from everything. Maybe the example is to just, you know, turn off the channel
00:02:29.860 if you don't like the Dave Chappelle special, or stop listening to the music if you don't like it,
00:02:34.060 or someone put a political opinion on Twitter and you don't really care for it, or you thought it was
00:02:38.000 a bit offensive or what have you. Okay, well, who cares? Just get on with your life. Is it a generational
00:02:43.680 thing? Because Madonna, she's getting up there, she's getting older. Margaret Atwood is an old
00:02:48.540 lady right now. Dave Chappelle is not a young man, those sort of individuals. And then we see young
00:02:53.340 people are some of the people who are most eager to actually support cancel culture. They have been
00:02:58.440 raised, perhaps in a time and an era where it's more acceptable to just tell people, no, you can't
00:03:03.940 say this or that. But then again, I do see a lot of young people who don't support that. There's a lot
00:03:08.260 of young people who are very aggressively into cancel culture. And then there are others who say, no,
00:03:12.500 we can't do this anymore. And they're fighting back almost more than any other age bracket. So I
00:03:17.140 don't know what the answer is in terms of the generational aspect or where we're actually
00:03:21.520 headed. Seems like more and more there are people who want to cancel others. But then more and more
00:03:25.900 there are people like Madonna being the latest example who say, well, hold on a second, let's step
00:03:30.400 back and let's just chill out about this whole thing a little bit more. Where is it heading? What do you
00:03:35.380 think?
00:03:35.640 So what do we think?