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why should I care? why do you? The woke / cancel / p.c. world continues to get a little crazier every day… When a famous person suddenly turns out to be a jerk, it doesn’t bother me at all. If the singer of a band that I like is a sexist pig it won’t stop me from enjoying his singing, and I certainly wouldn’t get ridiculous and refuse to listen to any of the songs he wrote or performed in. He’s the asshole, not his music. The same can go for an actress that turns out to be a super bitch in her real life; how does that, in any way, devalue the work she did in films? To me, it does not. I don’t know the actress, she is not my friend, so her bitchy behavior isn’t negatively affecting me in any way. The male singer didn’t insult my sister, or try to touch her or something, and the female actress didn’t pass by me on the street and push me down. Who they are, what they think, how they act is all inconsequential to me. People will argue that to keep listening to the music or watching the films supports those people, and therefore supports their behavior, or at least gives the impression it is okay for them to act that way. In other words, it is somehow up to me to punish this misbehaving celebrity that I do not know, and have no direct connection with, by denying myself the pleasure of their talents. Maybe the only real way to get back at them would be to pirate the things they do, so no money is exchanged, no profit made. Sure, 2 / two wrongs always make a right, right? I’ve made fun of cancel culture before, as well as woke and p.c. attitudes, because it often feels regressive. Has being found guilty and then punished in the court of public opinion ever been a fair process? I’d point to the recent Depp / Heard trial as an example but I truly know nothing about it except from scanning the headlines. There seemed to be a heavy suggestion that fans of the celebrities decided who was guilty or innocent based on sheer numbers, as in; more people thought Depp was on the right side of things, and that was all that mattered. There was no intelligence behind this, just mass thinking and following. How isolated were the jury? How could they not be influenced by that? Maybe they had no idea what was going on anywhere except in the courtroom, but what did occur was obviously lopsided and unfair. For my part, I admit to never being a huge fan of Heard to begin with, and as far as Depp goes he is just as capable of magic as he is of middling. The trial, and public opinion, did not change whether or not I want to see a movie that stars either person, it only made me a little more weary of social media. I love and respect my friends because I know them, and we have a history. If I were to find out 1 / one of them was a compulsive liar, or had begun to get violent with their family, I would be concerned and might even get involved. What I wouldn’t do is go to their workplace and try to publicly shame them to get them to change. Actually knowing someone makes all the difference in the world, and I do not know any celebrities that well. It’s likely you don’t either, so for you to get all uppity because someone you don’t know said something the rest of the world (and you) didn’t like doesn’t negate all the things they did before. It might make the songs sound ugly to you, and the movies or books (or whatever) might not be so entertaining, but for me the 2 / two are mutually exclusive. A great guitar lick is no less great because the person wielding the instrument when it was recorded was evil incarnate. For me, it’s still a<b> wicked </font></b>lick, just with a history perhaps. We can learn from history, but we don’t learn much from burying our heads in the sand, and that’s what I think people are doing when they stop enjoying the work of someone famous they no longer find personally appealing. Hate on the person, not on the art they created. |
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