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SuspendedInKarmaMama t1_j6fps2d wrote

Reply to comment by EvenBetterCool in Fox Gives Roseanne Barr’s Comedy Comeback Special “Cancel This!” an NFL Boost (Exclusive) by esporx

Do you think being cancelled means getting thrown into a gulag and never being heard from again?

She was killed off from a sitcom she brought back, named after her, and she had to give up any future earnings from it so that other people could keep their jobs.

edit: forgot this board is very pro-cancel culture and likes to pretend it doesn't exist

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26_skinny_Cartman t1_j6fsi85 wrote

Yes that is what being canceled should mean. Never being heard from again. If you want to use it to replace terms like fired, terminated, let go, or whatever job dismissal term that's on you. It's just become a term that means some rich person had consequences to their actions like when a normal person gets fired.

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SuspendedInKarmaMama t1_j6ftrii wrote

>Yes that is what being canceled should mean.

No one thinks that's what being cancelled means. That just seems like some draconian definition so you can say no one has been cancelled.

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26_skinny_Cartman t1_j6fucx3 wrote

Then just say they were fucking fired. Tom wasn't canceled by McDonald's for making derogatory comments. He was fired. Larry wasn't canceled from his accounting job for having sex with his subordinate, he was fired. Why do rich people get canceled and poor people get fired? Roseanne was FIRED from her job for being a racist, she wasn't canceled.

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SuspendedInKarmaMama t1_j6g0fzx wrote

> Then just say they were fucking fired.

They were fired because they were cancelled. What about that are you not getting?

>Roseanne was FIRED from her job for being a racist, she wasn't canceled.

She was fired because she got the outraged mob after her.

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26_skinny_Cartman t1_j6g1arr wrote

So we just created the term canceled so people can blame others for the repercussions of their actions. Got it.

"ITS NOT MY FAULT THE CUSTOMERS DONT LIKE TO BE CALLED CUNTS. FUCKING SNOWFLAKES GETTING ME CANCELED."

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SuspendedInKarmaMama t1_j6g2i3r wrote

>So we just created the term canceled so people can blame others for the repercussions of their actions. Got it.

No, we created it as a term for when a witch hunting mob arises and does whatever they can to ruin someone's career/life because they said something you didn't agree with.

>"ITS NOT MY FAULT THE CUSTOMERS DONT LIKE TO BE CALLED CUNTS. FUCKING SNOWFLAKES GETTING ME CANCELED."

You're being very disingenuous. Calling customers cunts to their faces is a fire-able offense. Telling a joke to your own circle on your own private time is not. Unless frothing lunatics catches wind of it.

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Fthewigg t1_j6j6nij wrote

Funny. When religious groups used to successfully boycott things they found sacrilegious or amoral, I don’t remember the word cancelled ever being used.

Same thing with The Red Scare. That’s how a country that supposedly has separation of church and state has “In God we trust” as our official national motto.

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