Posted on 12/09/2020 12:59:06 PM PST by Red Badger
'Just because you're offended, it doesn't mean you're right'
British comedian Ricky Gervais recently sounded off on cancel culture again, but vowed never to fall victim to the online shaming practice.
The former Golden Globes host — who famously roasted Hollywood liberals during his opening monologue at the 2020 awards show and then refused to cave when the woke mob came for him — opened up about the dangers of cancel culture during an interview for the podcast, "SmartLess."
At the start of the conversation, he expressed frustration with how comedians can have their livelihoods destroyed just because they say something unpopular.
"The scary thing is being canceled if you say the wrong thing and suddenly Netflix can take you off their platform," Gervais told podcast hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. "You could be the most woke, politically correct stand-up in the world at the moment, but you don't know what it's going to be like in ten years' time. You can get canceled for things you said ten years ago."
He went to say, "The misunderstanding about cancel culture is some people think you should be able to say anything you want without consequences and that's not true because we're members of society and people are allowed to criticize you. They're allowed to not buy your things, they're allowed to burn your DVDs and they're allowed to turn the telly off. What they're not allowed to do is to bully other people into not going to see you."
But the danger of "cancelation" extends beyond just comedians, Gervais argued, bringing up the hypothetical scenario of a doctor being canceled because of something he posts on Twitter despite it not being "relevant to what they do."
Nevertheless, the comedian, who often experiences criticism for jokes he makes online, laughed at the idea that he could be canceled.
"What is being canceled?" he asked. "It's having no platform. And what can they do to me? Who's gonna cancel me? Twitter? YouTube? If I have to, I'll go to Hyde Park and stand up on a bench and shout s**t."
Gervais went on to describe cancel culture like a form of "road rage."
"It's way too fast," he said. "Twenty years ago, if you were offended by someone on television you got a pen and paper and you went, 'Dear BBC ...', Now you fire off a tweet and that tweet goes on the f***ing news."
"It's things happening too fast that you can't take back," he added.
But "just because you're offended, it doesn't mean you're right," he concluded in a stinging rebuke.
Flame away, but he HAS done some funny gigs.
I would say we have some attempted chancellors of cancel on FR some days ...
LOL.....”Don’t pimp your blog”....”Down with the Hofts”....”Down with Ace of Spades”
Yep, a lot of people here seem to think that we can’t think for ourselves
Has the guy offended me? Yep. Sure has. So what? Life is tough so I wear a cup (h/t Dennis Miller). Still find a lot of what he says true and funny at the same time and that’s rare. Kinda hope he does get booted from “New Media” just to see where he ends up — probably doing a skit with John Cleese.
Gervais' Oscar hosting was fantastic. He had a lot of "woke" blood on the floor when he was done.
“like”
“...but the license plate on my limousine tonight was made by Felicity Huffman...”
CANCEL THAT XENOPHOBIC CIS-MALE RICKY GERVAIS (WHOSE PRONOUNS ARE THE REPREHENSIBLE HE/HIM)!!
Wow, trying out that psycho-authoritarian Democrat power-trip gibberish is actually kinda fun! (Give it a go for yourself!)
Good, good for him. We may disagree with some of what he says (bearing in mind he’s a comedian of course) or with Rowling, et al. But we all better hang together to at least some extent or the stinking commies will have us all in the gulags.
And no, I’m not being hyperbolic. I no longer doubt that that is exactly what they want.
A prediction if the Great Steal is allowed to go through: You will be cancelled because your views will be labeled hate speech and will result in your incarceration. The same will be dealt to those with Judeo-Christian, capitalist, conservative, or classical American values because all have been labeled “racist” by the mob society and labeled as “hateful”. This is the real steal of our freedoms that will result with the election of 2020. If Biden is inaugurated, the old American experiment will have failed and a new totalitarian state will quickly arise to replace it.
No. The new American experiment, a lot wiser than the old American experiment will rise up, starting with removing Federal Income Tax. It's unconstitutional to start with and creates a Federal competition to the States while also allowing some states to rob others.
His opening monologue at the Oscars should be required viewing in schools.
they dont care if non-comedians have their careers and lives destroyed saying something unpopular
it will be a real breakthrough when they reach that point
His takedown of the sicko Hollyweirdos, at the Oscars, a few years back....was epic.
Good for Ricky.
With AOC as their Dear Leader, She Guevarra, she would gladly have people executed en masse for thought crimes................
“AOC... would gladly have people executed en masse for thought crime”
Absolutely, without a doubt.
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