Posted on 06/07/2020 7:55:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
It can happen in a moment of time. One ill-advised tweet. One poorly worded post. One foolish act in public. And that’s it. You are branded. You are marked. You are guilty. For life.
Whatever good you’ve done in the past is forgotten, cancelled. However deep and sincere your apology, it will never be enough. You must carry the shame for the rest of your days. Away with you!
Ben Howe, author of The Immoral Majority, recounts with horror how he helped spread the video posted by a 37-year-old man named Adam Smith. Smith thought he was doing a good thing by berating a Chick-fil-A worker about her allegedly hateful company, and he proudly posted the video of the encounter.
Howe writes, “I didn’t spearhead the charge, but I was one member of a growing Twitter mob. The hunt began immediately.
By the next day, Smith’s video long deleted, Internet sleuths had located his LinkedIn profile and, in short order, his place of work.”
Soon enough, he was fired from his job, and despite posting a public apology to the Chick-fil-A worker, named Rachel, he was fired from other jobs after that once news of his connection to the initial video surfaced.
There is no forgiveness and no redemption in the cancel culture. One wrong move, and you are disqualified forever.
According to Howe, “Smith said this pattern repeated itself in the years that followed, and his family eventually had to resort to food stamps to survive without his income. He says he became suicidal, contemplating driving off a cliff so his wife and children could collect on his insurance policy, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
“His life had been completely and seemingly irreversibly destroyed.”
This is what today’s cancel culture does.
Just ask Drew Brees, longtime quarterback of the New Orleans Saints and one of the most popular players in the NFL. And, to my knowledge, a man never before accused of being racist.
But on Wednesday, all hell broke loose against him when he said that he “will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.”
He was referring to the practice of some NFL players to kneel down during the national anthem as a sign of protest, and he was expressing his disagreement with it.
Was the statement ill-timed in light of the killing of George Floyd? Would it have been better not to say something like this at all right now? Even when pressed for his opinion about players kneeling in protest, could he have said, “Now is not the time to ask that question. I want to focus on the pain and frustration experienced by the black community across America.”
Yes, I’m sure he could have held his peace or expressed himself differently. And he recognizes that as well.
So, on Thursday, he issued a lengthy, heartfelt apology, speaking with real humility. Then, some hours later, he issued a second apology.
But that will not be enough for many. They will want Brees’s head on a platter, so to say. His career must be over. Away with the man!
Some have called for Brees to be fired, despite his extraordinary career spanning almost two decades. Others have wondered if he will be forced to retire ahead of schedule. And plenty of others will want him to wear this reproach for the rest of his life. Let the names of Brees live on in infamy!
Actually, if you watch the video where he was asked how he felt about players protesting during the anthem, he explained what the anthem meant to him. When he hears the anthem, he said, he thinks of his two grandfathers. Both of them fought in World War II and risked their lives to protect our freedoms and to try to make America and the world a better place. The thought of this, during the anthem, sometimes moves him to tears.
So, for him, when we stand for the anthem, we are pledging our unity together, and that is how we can fix the real problems that still exist in our country.
That was it. That was his great crime. And forever, in the eyes of some, his legacy will be tarnished.
Thankfully, not everyone feels this way.
Joe Horn, himself a black American, said, “People should not be throwing Drew Brees under the bus, and they definitely need to pump the brakes on labeling him a racist. I know Drew Brees. Drew has done a lot to help black families and the black community in New Orleans. If Drew Brees didn’t love black families and low-income families he wouldn’t have helped the way he has over the years. People that are criticizing him like LeBron James and other celebrities don’t know him. They need to check his resume.
It’s called Chilling Free Speech.
Yes, but only within their culture. It is incumbent upon white Americans to act in concert and refuse to participate in any form of it, including refusing employment with companies who identify with their side.
How is the Chik fil a example an example if “cancel culture”?
Brees should quit the NFL. He has FU money, and sometimes you just have to say FU and walk away. The NFL has become a circus.
Unless, of course, you are a democrat.
Then, you can carry the nickname, ‘Coon Man’, you can dress up in blackface. You can be a King Kleagle in the Klan. You are allowed to label a black as being clean and articulate when he ‘speaks good’. You can use the word ‘nigger’ when speaking of and to blacks.
Don’t be fooled. It isn’t about racism. It is about control.
This isn't about race, just as feminism isn't about women and gay rights isn't about equality.
All those things are just stepping stones to get the power.
He should have proudly stood up to them proclaimed them to be the real racists, and pointed a finger and said: How dare you!
Thus is the Chik fil a incident.
Nothing to do with “cancel culture” in fact just the opposite. He was the cancelled culture guy who wanted to cancel Chik fil a.
I object that the article draws a direct comparison between patriot Drew Brees and Adam Smith, entitled self-righteous leftist moron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFdPBtxzT6k
This is a witch hunt, and the way witch hunts end is for leadership to put its foot down, such as when the governor of Salem shut down the witch trials when his wife was accused. I think this is viewed as a weakness of white people and this has been weaponized to seize power in a way that cannot be done through more conventional means in a majority white country. This is reliant on generating hysteria, and I’m sure there are plenty of other people who know a whole lot more about how this works than I do and how to end it.
I think they are trying to cancel Brees to give an opening to Kaepernick.
He is toast
Victim of the Mao-like purge that is just beginning
What’s sobering is the number of Karens, groomed as informants by spying on neighborhoods during the pandemic, now doxxing their neighbors or even casual social media contacts, sifting through even decades of personal history and publishing anecdotal grievances against neighbors, local businessmen ...anyone ....and the term ‘racist’ offers no escape,no defense, no apology will suffice
Now you are judged guilty just for choosing not to comment or participate
In my small neighborhood 2 businesses have been ruined by our neighborhood fakebook forum, once used to trade jokes, look for lost pets, exchange info on plumbers and dentists.
In a week it has become a dangerous nest of cancel culture, posters tracking down one man for posting that ‘ all lives matter’ ( he has been a pillar of charity to the community including our majority minority school) and another man for criticizing looters as “animals”. That man’s small business employed minority teenagers. Last night it was trashed, also his truck, spray painted as “ racist” for the lie that he called the protesters “animals”
Another man who posted links to pandemic reports from FOX was doxxed as a “rasist resistor” because his father stole some PTA money in 1994...when he was 5 yrs old
I have spent this morning blocking neighbors and purging
This being "Pride Month" (so designated by whom?), I am bombarded by company emails promoting its ever-so-PC vision of "inclusion" and "diversity." It sickens me. I'm tempted to forward some of the emails to HR and report them as harassment and inappropriate in the workplace. But I know that any hint of resistance to the homo agenda would get me blackballed if not fired.
That is what our country has come to. Dare to speak out in favor of normalcy and your life can be destroyed.
Kapernick has turned professional....... professional Negro
He’s black for a living
Carolina Panthers ends ties with sponsor after its CEO downplayed police brutality - Queen City Union, a nonprofit that is focused on equality, wrote a letter to local Charlotte local officials asking for police reform and stopping the use of tear gas.
CEO of CPI Ken Gill replied to the letter in an email, and said:
“Please spend your time in a more productive way,” he said in an email to the executive director of Queen City Union. “I challenge your statistics. A better use of time would be to focus on the black-on-black crime and senseless killing of our young men by other young men.” - https://www.wral.com/carolina-panthers-ends-ties-with-sponsor-after-its-ceo-downplayed-police-brutality/19133707/
I think he inadvertently cancelled himself and the people ginning up cancel culture are still trying to control it and keep it from backfiring on them. People are going to be less likely to go along with them if that person can be “cancelled.” Think strategically, not emotionally.
Just like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. I refer to them as Race Pimps.
... and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host...
They can force celebrities to apologize and kow-tow to PC, but they can’t stop the message.
Particularly effective is All Lives Matter.
Nothing exposes the absurdity of the Left like disallowing anybody from stating that all lives matter.
So a very effective graffito will be ALM.
Who can seriously say that “all lives matter” is racist?
The more folks say and write All Lives Matter, and the more the Left howls, the better it is for us and the worse for them.
And the letters of ALM are all straight sides, so it can be posted with contrasting tape, or a simple to make stencil.
ALM.
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