OK, so cancel culture doesn’t stick, but neither do microaggressions

I often debate the insanity of Cancel Culture on my Facebook Wall and the same four or five social-justice-oriented friends participate in a spirited argument with me. One defense they make is that cancel culture doesn’t stick. A lot of the people who we perceive to be cancelled like Roseanne Barr or Gina Carano or Shane Gillis (famously fired by SNL) or Billie Bush found work again. Even some of the greater exiles like Woody Allen and Louie CK still are working in some capacity.

I’ll readily admit for people who have been victimized in the same way that Louie CK victimized women or Casey Affleck behaved on a set that it can be frustrating to see those people working again and think like nothing is getting done. I can understand that frustration.

At the same time, is it really our place to evaluate the damage done to another person? Isn’t the whole point of recognizing privilege taking a step back before speaking about someone else’s suffering?

Besides, the basic ethical tenet of our justice system and common-sense morality that people shouldn’t be punished disproportionately for their crimes (something that’s not happening), there seems to be a growing hypocrisy in our level of empathy that needs to be addressed.

I find in my interactions with people on this encroaching new way of being that the empathy these people have to people who have been perceived to commit the kind of crime that upsets the new wokeness is much lower than those who get hurt by ways that can be explained (or perceive to be explained by sexism, racism, or misogamy.

For example, Bachelorette host Chris Harrison got fired earlier this year for calling for “a little grace, a little understanding, a little compassion” when Rachael Kirkconnel was accused of racist behavior.

Rachael Kirkconnel’s sins amounted to having conservative parents, retweeting something from Prager University, attending a old south sorority party, and supporting the police. The article also states she’s engaged to a black man. Even more disgusting, Harrison just called for an open dialogue.

Someone on my Facebook wall who is very attuned to the fighting of racism and misogyny responded that “it’s just business.”

But by that same logic, can that person tell me with a straight face that hecan keep that same level of “it’s all business” to anyone who has a…