Cancel Culture Holds People Accountable. Isn’t that Good? (Hint: No)

Orrin Konheim
4 min readFeb 16, 2021

It’s hard to ignore stories like these:
Chris Harrison Talked Back To Cancel Culture And Got Canceled For It (thefederalist.com)

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Lucasfilm fires ‘The Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano after offensive social media posts — CNN

Gina Carano merely compared being a conservative to being a victim of the Holocaust. So she got her analogies wrong. It’s a note-for-note retelling of the Red Scare? This is worth getting fired over?

Tim Allen said the exact same thing in 2017 and survived with his reputation intact because society is increasingly incapable of keeping their s — t together by the year.

I am a Jew and a Democrat who detests Conservatives but that doesn’t mean I don’t think a nation that values discourse isn’t more valuable.

When I posted this on Facebook about how I’m doing more writing against Wokeness and Cancel Culture on my Medium page, I got the following responses:

“There’s no worse take in 2021 than “it’s a bad thing that people’s words and actions have consequences.”

“Who exactly has been unfairly “cancelled” in your opinion? Because to me “cancel culture” looks like, Mel Gibson reveals himself to be a vicious anti-Semite, the people you deride as being excessively “woke” have the gall to notice, and then Hollywood continues to pay Gibson millions of dollars to star in movies. That

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Orrin Konheim

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