#cancel culture isn’t real

[theremina]

Abuser logic is not logical.

White feminist brand-building isn’t feminism.

“Cancel culture” is a classist, racist, misogynist, queerphobic dogwhistle.

Ask me how I know!

Or don’t.

Either way, I won’t be carrying water for the alt right and calling it justice.

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

niche British youtuber post but

i absolutely love Sophdoeslife, and without her content i’d still do my makeup how i did when i was like 13 (which no one needs to see) BUT over the last like month she’s worked with so many zionist brands and obviously my morals and peoples actual lives are far more important than a content creator so i’ll stop supporting her, but i just feel like when it’s a semi small youtuber who you’ve supported for ages it hits different compared to like a massive celebrity with millions of followers. Anyway far more importantly

Free Palestine

[killingmoon]

the only negative symptom of not having social media is that i’ve been watching this youtuber a lot the past few weeks and i had no idea he was cancelled months ago

[anasyrma]

i know john mayer is a racist misogynistic piece of shit but did he actually groom TS? i want a non swiftie source

[horrorshow]

did you see the tweets Siken was apparently liking :/

i didn’t and i don’t care. leave that man alone. his tweets made it very clear he enjoys fandom, that he supports and engages with shipping and fan fiction, but that he’s also a man in his fifties who isn’t up to date with current fandom lingo and that he had no idea that ideas like ‘fiction isn’t real life’ and ‘we are in fandom to have fun not to beat down others’ , ideas that were common knowledge til a few years back are now enough to trigger a violent mob more interested in cancelling and censorship than it is interested in art and culture and fandom or... even just in treating people with some basic respect and kindness. the fact that it’s been HOURS and he’s still replying to tweets trying to explain himself should tell you enough that people’s reactions to this are vile and far from okay. why would you care what tweets he likes, why are you monitoring that. enjoy in peace that your favorite poet said he likes your favorite ship and if you cannot do that: leave him alone. leave him be. leave other fans be. he's right. this isn't a contest. we're all different people with different interests and that should be celebrated. it's what makes fandom transformative. you don't have to be friends with everyone. just focus on what you do like. people who cannot peacefully co-exist with those who have different ships and likes without beating them down have no place in fandom spaces bc they are actively destroying them. quit the constant drama. especially drama at the cost of others. especially poets who have no beef in this and were only trying to connect with their fans by answering some questions. stop it.

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on this episode of cancel culture isn’t real

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Seth Mandel

A hideous article in the Washington Post goes out of its way to flaunt its disregard for journalistic ethics in the service of exacerbating the national anti-Semitism crisis. The piece itself is the reporting equivalent of corking the bat, filling an article with examples that undermine its thesis and hoping nobody looks inside.

The topic of the piece, written by Pranshu Verma, is the assertion that cancel culture is being applied to defenders of Hamas, so now cancel culture is bad. But the most objectionable part of the article is where Verma misrepresents an incident so egregiously that the credibility of the whole piece crumbles to dust.

To be clear, the rest of the article isn’t accurate either. For example, people weren’t being punished for “criticiz[ing] Israel,” as the headline declares, but usually for behavior such as destroying posters or chanting genocidal slogans and the like. Unfortunately, that sort of obfuscation is ubiquitous in media reporting on the aftermath of Hamas’s massacre on Oct. 7. The truly appalling part of the article is in the following excerpt:

Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel responded by attacking Gaza, groups have poured resources into identifying people with opposing political beliefs, sometimes deploying aggressive publicity campaigns that have resulted in profound real-world consequences. Within weeks of Oct. 7, ‘doxing trucks’ prowled the campuses of Harvard, Columbia and Princeton, displaying the names and photos of students and professors who had signed statements declaring solidarity with Palestinians. In January, a Rutgers Law School student sued the university, alleging that he had faced discriminatory disciplinary action after sharing what he deemed ‘pro-Hamas’ messages from his classmates with school administrators.

So here’s how the Washington Post frames the Rutgers situation: Pro-Hamas people are having their lives ruined by Jews who highlight their public comments, and this Rutgers fellow is an example not only of that but of essentially doxxing. (Doxxing means to reveal personal identifying information that is either nonpublic or requires enough effort to find that it is, in a practical sense, nonpublic.)

Here’s what actually happened. Members of the Student Bar Association sent their group chat anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas messages after the Oct. 7 massacre, and an Orthodox Jewish law student in the chat, Yoel Ackerman, responded. He shared the messages with the Rutgers Jewish Law Students Association. For this, the law school opened disciplinary proceedings against Ackerman, with the law school dean telling her colleagues “we have a Jewish law student seeking to take and publish the names of those he deems to be supporting Hamas.” He was then subject to a Sovietesque impeachment hearing from the Student Bar Association. Ackerman, without receiving sufficient explanation, was berated for three hours in what amounted to administrative harassment. In order to dispense of their troublesome Jew, the SBA then moved to suspend its own constitution in order to expel Ackerman.

That’s when Rutgers University stepped in, and briefly suspended the SBA while it could sort out the mess that Hamas propagandists and their enthusiastic supporters among the deans had made of the school. The SBA was soon reinstated.

This, the Washington Post tells us, is an example of a Jew oppressing the poor gentile.

This is not biased reporting. It is Jew-baiting propaganda with a long and very disturbing history. The rest of the article, meanwhile, is biased reporting: Verma simply launders the exterminationist language of domestic extremists into legitimate criticism of a foreign government.

The whole article is science fiction. But the apology the paper owes Ackerman is very real.

[bad-hellaverse-ideas]

Please stop watching Cartoon Universe

Let me get this out of the way: I hate cancel culture.

But I’m posting this because I genuinely want this guy to lose his following.

He’s ableist and was an asshole to my friend, and I think his fans should know his true colors.

Deepcut aka Cartoon Universe, is a popular theorist channel in the Hazbin/Helluva fandom. I’m sure everyone has seen him at least once

This asshole believes that DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) isn’t real. That people are being manipulated to believe that they were abused as a child.

That is absolutely BULLSHIT.

My friend ( @epsilon-system ) who has DID, and has experienced very real abuse in their youth, was a part of this fucker’s discord server.

They came into my server with screenshots and vented about what happened. I have gotten permission to post them so people can see.

It doesn’t take a genius to understand how saying someone’s truma never happened, is fucked up

In these screenshots, you can also see people being extremely rude to my friend for wanting help and clarification, as they have an audio processing disorder.

Instead of helping, they shame them.

This greatly upsets me. He and his members were mean to my friend, and spewing ableist bullshit.

Please, for the love of god, unsubscribe to him. Stop watching his videos. I want his channel to shrivel up and die.

[xx-slug-xx]

(Sorry, brain dump ahead)

I need to tell y’all something, but I feel like only my older followers will understand what I’m talking about

When I was writing my informative paper on proshipping and anti shipping, including all the arguments for and against each side, I realized something very important.

I have family that I live with. I have friends with their own families. I have pets. I have a job now with coworkers who I care about. And while none of these things give a shit about fiction and internet morals (hell, I’ve had conversations with just about everyone I know about this stuff, and we all agree for the most part), I would give a shit if I was doxxed and put the people in my life in danger. I realized that if I post that document, and the right people saw it, I would put them in danger. I’m not willing to be a martyr for fandom drama. I’ve seen what antis are capable of doing, I’ve seen how they’ve indirectly killed people and how they’ve directly ruined lives. I don’t want that. I care about, not only my own well being, but also the people who I care most about. That’s not to say that anti harassment and anti censorship aren’t important to me, by any means. But my real life takes precedence over my internet life.

If there’s one thing I learned from that paper I wrote (but didn’t post), it’s that the internet is cruel and unjust. It’s that I could never feel comfortable with myself if I labeled myself as an anti. I made it clear that I’m proship, and that paper I wrote is the reason I’ve come to this conclusion. I did my own reaserch, form an unbiased standpoint, while choosing to side more with antis, and I came out of it as proship. My tastes in fiction have not changed. But my understanding of the topic did change. That paper has nearly a year’s worth of research put into it, and it would piss people off. It would, more importantly, piss off antis. I’ve seen what happens when antis get pissed, and I’ve been on the receiving end of the mild version of it. Many times. I’m not willing to go through the version where they don’t hold back. My paper included many documented examples of it, and since the time of writhing it, there have been so many more. I’m not going to be another one of those people who have their lives ruined over stupid fandom discourse.

It’s more than just internet drama to me though, regardless. I know that this is more than just fandom. At its core, it’s all forms of fiction and what is and is not acceptable. It’s about bullying and harassment, and how it keeps getting worse as time goes on. Not just internet harassment either. It’s happening in the American school system every day, people I knew when I was in high school were forced to drop out, get their ged, or do online schooling because of the real world harassment they were receiving. The way that my generation, and the generation bellow me, views other people is appalling. Bullying is just “funny”, and I can’t stand it. The internet is at the core of this issue, of course. It’s taught impressionable minds that other people are like npcs. Cancel culture has taught us that if you step out of line, even for non-issues, then you are the scum of the earth and deserve what’s coming to you. And if you see someone who steps out of line, you need to be ruthless. It’s better to attack other people, so long as the negative attention isn’t on you. Even the older generations are affected. This isn’t something we should be ignoring, but we are. Antis in fandom spaces might seem like it’s not a big deal, but it’s a rabbit hole that runs deeper than people realize.

My paper made me realize this, it made me realize that society sucks, the government sucks, the internet sucks, and I’m pro-freedom to do whatever you want so long as it doesn’t hurt real people. At the end of the day, I’m not going to be a martyr. I refuse that role. You shouldn’t want to be a martyr either. Be kind to people, that’s what’s important. Create spaces where people know they are safe to do whatever the hell they want so long as it doesn’t hurt real people. Stand up for real people who are being hurt by others. Stop harassment, stop hate. I’m tired of seeing people hurt each other over fictional characters who don’t exist. Don’t put yourself or others in danger. Block people who spread hate, and don’t give them a platform to be hateful.

I’m rambling, but for me, there’s no real good outcome unless people suddenly realize that being hateful because of fiction is dumb. I’ve become tired of trying to explain to antis why it’s dumb, there’s no way to talk to many of them. I also can’t risk the safety of others for an issue that only I’m focusing on. There’s other problems in the world, and in my personal life. I just want to be kind, at the end of it all. And I want others to feel the same. But then again, just being kind to others would solve a lot of the worlds problems if everyone followed that rule.

I need to shut up now though, sorry for the dump lol

[theremina]

CANCEL CULTURE ISN’T REAL.

Look, if a confirmed serial abuser refuses to do even the most basic NON CARCERCAL harm reduction work (mediated conflict resolution, therapy, living amends) then by all means, yes! Kick ‘em the hell outta their hunting grounds!

JFC, we’re all totally within our rights to ask unrepentant repeat offenders who rape and assault over and over again to GTFO of our communities, no matter what Clementine Morrigan says! It doesn’t make us bad at abolition or intergenerational healing work.

Creating consequences for unapologetic violence IS NOT CANCEL CULTURE.

Posting public online warnings to others about remorseless abusers who have been run outta town for serial rape or violence IS NOT CANCEL CULTURE.

“Fighting back against cancel culture” is not a real or serious priority for leftists or libs UNLESS your focus is on winning popularity contests and building a brand.

The growing backlash against outspoken survivors across the entire political spectrum, however?

REAL AS FUCK.

Please stop carrying water for grifty white feminists and their classist, racist, rapist partners.

aaaaaaa this is horrifying

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

cause if christmas is so green and so red, then why am i so blue…?

[procrastinatingsoicanreadfanfics]

Vikings and their eras

Summary: what era would vikigns be in if they weren't in their own

Notes: I did a lot of text for this one, bc I loved thinking about this!! There are some pretty popular characters missing (Ragnar, Sigurd, Athelstan) where I just couldn’t imagine a certain era for them. Thank you so much for your request :)))))) Some of these eras aren’t wonderful or filled with positivity but that doesn’t mean these characters wouldn’t thrive.

tagged: @majesticwren @obsessiveformiyatwins @leithdragon @demon-of-the-ancient-world @alicedopey, @ivarlover @levithestripper @batmandallyboy @akayxo09 @vrtualfairy (hmu to be added!)

based on this request | masterlist | requests are OPEN!

Lagertha

Lagertha would thrive well in times of crises and war (lmao). The black death, WW1 or 2, or long periods of war/famine/sickness is where Lagertha does well. Think about her what you will, but she brings people together, manages them, and takes care of them. She’s a natural leader, and a fighter, so she’s able to protect her community.

We’ve seen examples of this in the series, think during the sickness in Kattegat, or when she takes over and completely builds up Hedeby. People tend to trust her, and especially women look up to/feel safe around her. When disaster strikes, she would be able to save/take care of them.

Aslaug

I had to think about this for a really long time because I think that Aslaug fits so well into the era the show is set in, however, I finally decided on the 1920s. Even as a feminine woman in Viking Scandinavia, she had a lot of authority over herself and knew how to grow a business (Kattegat) when Hirst wasn’t feeling sexist.

In the 1920s, she’d live in a big city, maybe Berlin or New York, and she’d own some sort of speakeasy. I’d love to think that her speakeasy would be a place for the very few pagans of the city to meet up in secret, and she herself would still be a norse pagan, völva, etc. Also, she’d dip her toes into wild jewellery design (think Schiaparelli). Definitely someone who attracts artists and would be considered a muse.

Rollo

Middle Medieval Ages for sure. He thrives being a knight because he’s a manipulative little hoe that I can’t stand. Gets to do his performative heroism during tourneys and woo women only to leave them all alone.

Rollo is not a good person, esp. towards women. He constantly gets into trouble with the church and with fathers whose daughters he ‘dishonors’. Definitely needs a wife like Gisla to slap some sense into him. I think that eventually (mid forties) he’d start to mature. Also, having children would help him become a better person (I think they should have put that into a show).

Bjorn

Bjorn thrives well in the late 2000s to early 2010s, when travel blogs were on the rise. He’s one of the early influencers, and travels the world together with Halfdan. This only works bc cancel culture isn’t real yet. Bjorn would say some stupid shit and get hounded for it let’s be real. Nonetheless, there is always some rumour about him and Halfdan being a thing (they would be if they both didn’t constantly say ‘that’s gay’).

Alternatively, Bjorn might make a good colonizer (can I say that?), but it’s not like he isn’t that already.

Ubbe

Ubbe would thrive during the late medieval ages (defo not the Renaissance though). He’s the type of man who would enjoy the idea of the charming knight. I think Ubbe would definitely enjoy the idea of quests/saving damsels in distress/having the arranged-marriage-turned-lovestory (he’s a booktok girly tbh).

This doesn’t mean that all of this is totally pure. Ubbe gets some shit twisted in canon as well (ESPECIALLY concerning Margrethe). Maybe his first war was something crusade-like, and he went into it thinking of heroic acts and blabla and then got fucked up by battle and gore. Also has a religion and Madonna/whore complex problem.

Hvitserk

In the show, Hvitserk was always seeking sense/purpose while also struggling with balance, which is why I think he would thrive in the 1970s. This is THE era for protests and social change. Climate change, feminism and sexuality all became important topics. Going to protests would be able to give him a sense of change, and I think it would be liberating for him as well, to be able to free himself of his restraints by changing something.

I’ll go into communes a little more for Helga, but I think Hvitserk would thrive in an early commune a lot. He needs to have people around him taking care of his mental health, and this would be great for his mental health. Yes, therapy helps a lot of people, but I think if Hvitserk lived in our time, he would think that talk therapy is stupid, and completely close himself off to it. This guy just needs a lot of love, okay?

Also, he needs to smoke some 70s weed every once in a while.

Ivar

Just like Hvitserk, Ivar would thrive during the 1970s. However, this is for completely different reasons and also means that no one else gets to thrive. I chose the 1970s because it’s THE serial killer decade.

That honestly sounds terrible but we all know it’s true.

Ivar would be bitter about being discriminated/not being able to fully take part in society/not getting any women and that would turn him homicidal. He definitely overcomplicated his killings and does shitty bloodeagles to get some cool name but all he gets is like “the Viking killer” or something and he’s so mad about that he reveals himself on his deathbed to change his title. It doesn’t work.

Floki

Floki just wants to be where Helga is, but he would not thrive in the 2020s. I think he’d get in arguments with Helga about vaccinations. However, I want Floki to be in the 2010s/2020s with Helga. He definitely has some kind of hallucination-related mental illness at the least. I think that especially the season where he acted out against Helga (season 4?) shows that his mental health was making him harmful towards others and probably towards himself.

I can’t diagnose Floki, but I think we can all see that he might have some kind of bipolar disorder/mania disorder on top of a schizophrenia. He needs some kind of meds, and he needs someone to help him taking them.

Helga

This is very specific, but Helga would do AMAZING during the early era of Covid (like March 2020). Yes, she’s a very social person, but I do believe that Helga would be part of a quite isolated commune if she lived during modern times, and even during that time be isolated with Floki.

I would like to think that the commune could be self-sufficient and Helga just gets to go ham making banana bread and care packages. She thrives in this time where she doesn’t really have to go to work (even though she loves being a kindergartener too) and gets to take care of the people in her commune, and even further than that from the comfort of her own home.

Astrid

This woman thrives where no one else does, and that is toxic 2020s twitter. All she does is tweet, get cancelled, tweet, get popular, repeat. She’s so so annoying and bullies a bunch of people who don’t deserve to be bullied. Is most definitely blocked by trump, hailey Bieber and the Kardashians at least.

Makes a living by selling feetpics.

Ecbert

Ecbert thrives in the 1980s. Now. Hear me out. Ecbert in neon Zumba clothes. There, that’s my reason.

I’m just kidding, there’s more. I’m not old enough to fully understand most of the decades I’m talking about in here but the 1980s, it seems, were this extremely colorful and wild decade. Literally everywhere, color just kind of seemed to explode, and I think Ecbert would thrive in this kind of chaotic atmosphere.

(are there people in their forties or older on this post that can verify?)

Aelswith

I’m really sad that we didn’t go into Aelswith more in the show, but I firmly believe that Aelswith would make an amazing Sufragette. Thinking back to her time on the show, she was always very firm in standing her ground, more so than Judith or even Lagertha in some ways (especially in the sense that she was SO YOUNG). She directed and strengthened Alfred, and I think during season 6, she used a beartrap to defend her baby?

Anyway, I imagine her as a rich/aristocratic lady in London who definitely steers the household while Alfred brings the money in (he likes art) and she decides that, if she puts in the work in the house, she should be able to decide over the country that house is in as well.

[bpdjennamaroney]

“cancel culture isn’t real” then why do i, harry lime

[joannechocolat]

On blackballing, boycotting and cancel culture since 1880...

If there’s a phrase that really sums up the events of 2022, surely it must be “cancel culture”. This is a phrase that has been much overused, largely by the right-wing press, and often in a context that suggests it’s a completely new phenomenon, brought about by an angry mob of wokies wanting to force through unreasonable change. But here’s the thing. It isn’t new. It’s a concept as old as privilege.

Here’s why.

The concept of “cancel culture” is, by definition, elitist. Those in positions of privilege have always had the right to exclude, cancel – or blackball – people they consider to be undesirable.  (In fact, the word “blackball” dates back to the 18th century, and refers to the means of rejecting a person applying to become a member of a private club.)

But blackballing happens in secret, between friends and fellow club members. The reasons for blackballing someone are never revealed to the public. It might be an unproven rumour, or a personal grievance. It might be a prejudice of race, or class, or gender, or birth. Members of the private club do not have to justify their prejudices, or allow the right to reply. That’s because they already belong: they are perceived as inherently deserving. 

But when the undesirables realize that they, too, have the power to criticize, and to do it openly, the privileged start to get nervous. No-one likes to be criticized, still worse boycotted. The word, by the way, comes from the name of Charles Boycott, a retired British Army Captain and land agent, who when he tried to evict Irish tenants from their homes during the 1880 potato famine, was very publicly ostracized by his workers and the farming community. No-one would work for him, or provide services for him. His crops were left to rot in the fields. He was effectively cancelled.

Charles Boycott was outraged by this. In a long letter to the Times, he laid out his many grievances, speaking of death threats, lost income and a “howling mob.” He gave many interviews to the British Press, where he was presented as the victim of an attack – a peer of the realm, his business ruined by Irish nationalists. Between them, the newspapers raised £2000 – an important sum in 1880 -  to save Boycott’s crops. No-one seemed to give much thought to why he’d been criticized in the first place, or to the plight of those starving Irish tenants and their families.

So, here’s a question. What’s the difference between blackballing and boycotting? The only real difference seems to be who does the cancelling, and where. Privilege takes it for granted that it will always get to decide who matters, and who can be ignored. Privilege isn’t used to being judged, and when it finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion, claims victimhood, “cancel culture” and “mob rule.” But that’s just because, to the privileged, any shifting of the balance towards equality feels like an injustice, and any attention given to the voice of the people is “mob rule.” Which isn’t to say that public opinion is always right, any more than the voices of the elite are always worth listening to: but voicing it isn’t “cancel culture”, and it isn’t new. It’s freedom of speech, extended to those whose voices are not deemed important enough to be reported in the Times. Freedom of speech, which is also the right to criticize, or to reply, or blackball, or ignore, or boycott; a freedom that really only exists when it’s free to everyone.

[stewpid-soup]

VENT CW!! STAY SAFE!!

anyone else find it exhausting to just enjoy things?

I don’t want to support people or companies that are actively doing things that are bad (racism, homophobia, defending SA, etc etc). but it’s so mentally draining to look through all of this terrible shit and not be able to enjoy things bc of their creators or ppl associated with it

i mean, i don’t support dream. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. I don’t support dream or the dteam as a whole - but the dsmp was such a big comfort to me through quarantine, and even now i still love the storyline and the characters.

HP, well that’s self explanatory. JKR is just a shit person and i’m not gonna give her my money bc i enjoy the plot of HP. I just take fanon on its own for the most part. I own the books and the films already (my family loves HP and has for a long time, since before JKR was outed as a transphobe) so i don’t need to buy anything from her. HP was a huge part of my childhood and the thought of not interacting with any content related to it makes me so sad, because i still love it even now.

and as controversial as it may be, i’ve enjoyed hazbin and helluva boss for years now. it was another comfort during quarantine, and i watched it with friends and got to bond over it. i do not like vivziepop or support her, and it’s exhausting to see all this back and forth about her online bc it’s so confusing. I love these shows and it makes me so happy that I get to see hazbin come together after waiting so long, and the same goes for helluva boss. of course there can be improvements to the way vivziepop writes some characters, but i still love these shows so much. it hurts my heart to feel like i can’t enjoy the content because the creator is such a bad person.

and then the number of musicians i’ve had to stop listening to because they turned out to be shitty people. or actors i avoided watching content of because they’re bad people (especially when the list of ppl who support Israel came out- of course im not supporting anyone on there, but some of the ppl on there just rlly hurt my heart because ive enjoyed their content for so long)

i know there’s not really any way to avoid this, as people are complex and can be an asshole w/o you knowing. funding people like this isn’t something i want or care to do, so of course i actively avoid it. but I just don’t know what to do when it comes to this.

a friend told me that it’s sort’ve about picking and choosing things, because you never know what people are really like. they said that with the state of the world, it’s important to stay educated but don’t let shitty people get in the way of things you enjoy. i’m just at the point where i feel like i can’t enjoy anything because anytime i get stuck in a rabbit hole of content, i see people going back and forth about who should be cancelled and who actually isn’t a bad person. cancel culture is one of the worst things about the internet, and it just makes interacting with fandoms even more toxic than it already is.

ig this is just a rant talking about comforts i have that i feel like i can’t enjoy anymore because of cancel culture and just like..people being people? i’m just so tired of finding something i enjoy and then learning out that they are or possibly could be doing/supporting something bad and just— it makes me feel so guilty because i don’t want to indirectly/directly hurt anyone. i know what i believe in and what i do and don’t support, at least for the most part (still learning everyday atp), but it doesn’t make it any easier to part with things i hold so dearly in my heart.

does anyone else feel similarly? if so, what have you found that helps or at least is a comfortable middle ground?

idk bro, my life is so exhausting with everything i deal with in real life- so to feel like i can’t even find comfort in my silly little shows anymore is really depressing. my mental health is not doing well lmfaooo

[andcenterfolds]

As much I adore Noah, I wish he wasn’t careless about posting Israel. And much more disappointed how Stranger Things fans have addressed the issue. Y’all talked about homophobia and racism you see in the show but it’s “let’s stop cancel culture and mind our business” when there’s real people affected in this conflict? This isn’t just “oh he’s on a vacation and just posting pictures I don’t why you guys are offended” when it’s much more than that. There’s a reason why musicians have boycotted Israel.

I’m not ultimately crucifying Noah for what he has done nor thinks he has done something unforgivable and I should “cancel” him for it. He’s 18 and has a lot to learn and it wasn’t entirely his fault he grew up the way he grew up (white overprivileged bubble). This is clearly a touchy subject for everyone. I just hoped everyone didn’t act as if people who has criticized him was trying to “cancel” him, especially when he knows about the issue more than you give him credit for.