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…