2) Even if you did need to be "culturally empowered" in order to fire someone, that's always existed too Jfc what fucking universe do you people live in Morals clauses in actors' contracts weren't forced by tyrannical CEOs down the public's throat
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The public enthusiastically called for them Some actress gets dragged through the mud for being a homewrecker, everyone in Peoria starts screaming "Get her off the screen! Think of the children!"
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This discourse pisses me off so much because getting fired because people don't like you is a universal, constant, inescapable feature of having a job of any kind under capitalism But NOW it's suddenly a PROBLEM because it's "woke"
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Were anti-racists in the 60s (MLK, SNCC, BPP) engaging corporations similar to today's blue wave 'anti-racists'? When MLK turned to economics and liberal racism, should he instead have asked how employment contract language could be a post-Jim-Crow weapon?
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Nobody marched in the streets to get Gina Carano fired you disingenuous turd
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Gina Carano getting fired is symptomatic of a changing cultural environment The charge that BLM protests have "getting celebrities fired" as a primary goal is a ridiculous strawman
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I really hate this confected narrative about how activists today only care about silly superficial social issues that those serious grownup activists of the past wisely ignored It's garbage on both counts
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The people BLM activists largely want fired are police officers who've shot unarmed Black people For the same reason the 70s Civil Rights Movement wanted such people fired - as a prelude to large-scale policy change
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Getting rid of racist celebrities is a side effect that happens along the way No one I know thinks of it as some kind of primary organizing goal or spends more time on it individually than writing a snarky tweet Doesn't make it a BAD THING
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Yes, actually, if you look at history, "cancel culture" was not somehow invented in 2015 People have always gotten pissed off at some bigot attaining fame and fortune as a slap in the face to their community Sometimes their complaints even get heard, usually they don't
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I once went researching the history of The Diary of Anne Frank and found a surprisingly "modern-feeling" controversy about the 1959 film adaptation The ADL "tried to cancel" Austrian actress Gusti Huber, who'd portrayed Mrs Frank on Broadway and reprised the role in the film
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Because she did, in fact, have close ties to members of the Nazi regime and had gladly appeared in Nazi propaganda films in the 30s and 40s, before whitewashing her past and reinventing herself as an anti-Nazi resister after the war
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They had a petition and they picketed the shoot and everything Ultimately didn't come to much, the movie was still a huge hit and now it's like one paragraph on Huber's Wikipedia page
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