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

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

or

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 seems like an *under*-reaction.”

“You behave poorly, you get punishment. I don’t like people crying about their favorite pundit/celebrity getting canceled over racism, sexism, etc. when there are real problems in the world. You are your own man, but are you sure that this is the hill to die on?”

My response:

The current evils of cancel culture are not just about stopping the abuse of women (I’m sure very few people are against that) or judging the intentions to stop racism (I’d say a high percentage of people in the US know racism is bad) but how to go about it or how to prioritize it (some of us don’t see that reparations towards black people as opposed to solving an underclass regardless of race) compared to other problems (like I care more about immigration and climate than African-American inequalities)

The problem excesses of cancel culture is that they create dogma and…