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Actress Jennifer Aniston: “I’m So Over Cancel Culture, Is There No Redemption?”
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 08/22/2023 | James Hibberd

Posted on 08/22/2023 6:14:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Jennifer Aniston is offering her perspective on “cancel culture.”

The 54-year-old star declared in a new interview: “I’m so over cancel culture. I probably just got canceled by saying that. I just don’t understand what it means … Is there no redemption? I don’t know. I don’t put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket.”

Aniston made the remarks in a Wall Street Journal magazine profile, where she added that she had some uncomfortable moments with the disgraced producer. “He’s not a guy, you’re like, ‘God, I can’t wait to hang out with Harvey,'” she said. “Never. You were actually like, ‘Oh, God, OK, suck it up.’ I remember actually, he came to visit me on a movie to pitch me a movie. And I do remember consciously having a person stay in my trailer.” (The Journal added that Weinstein told them “[Aniston] never had any uncomfortable instances with me.”)

Merriam-Webster defines cancel culture as “the practice or tendency of engaging in mass canceling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure.”

The number of celebrities that have criticized cancel culture is getting pretty long: From Lizzo to Chris Rock to Goldie Hawn to Molly Ringwald to Cate Blanchett.

Yet others have challenged the notion that cancel culture is a legit social movement.

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael said in a Hollywood Reporter roundtable, “Cancellation, that’s not real. The boogeyman doesn’t exist. We got to get over that. Like, if you do something wrong in your personal life, you should go to jail.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: aniston; cancelculture; hollywood; jenniferaniston
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To: Blue Turtle

I believe she did do so, yes.


21 posted on 08/22/2023 7:01:22 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: rktman

You are correct.


22 posted on 08/22/2023 7:01:37 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Bratch

Thanks!


23 posted on 08/22/2023 7:18:48 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Levy78

That’s like saying Reagan started liberalism because he created his son Ron.


24 posted on 08/22/2023 7:21:12 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Bratch
Brad Pitt is one stupid MOFO

I would have had a litter of kids with Aniston.

25 posted on 08/22/2023 7:24:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Bratch

She’s 40 years old in that pic. It’s from the cover of GQ magazine, January 2009 edition.


26 posted on 08/22/2023 7:25:12 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: SeekAndFind

With Christianity there is redemption and forgiveness. There is none with anything else. That is the difference that the world cannot and will not understand, accept, or treasure.


27 posted on 08/22/2023 7:35:44 PM PDT by Belteshazzar
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To: Levy78
You and your people created this. We won’t forget, either.

Hollywood didn't create it. The NGOs and activist groups -- ADL, SPLC -- were in the lead. ADL "helped" Twitter set up its Trust & Safety Council as early as 2016.

Big Tech followed the lead of the activist groups.

Hollywood didn't lead. Hollywood was a target, and quickly began throwing canceled people overboard to save itself.

28 posted on 08/22/2023 7:48:32 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: SeekAndFind

These people were perfectly ok with cancel culture, until their ox started getting gored.


29 posted on 08/22/2023 7:51:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Hildy

I’ll give her credit for being in the best South Park episode ever.....about the Rainforest:

There’s a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass
Let’s knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say “save the rainforest”, but what do you know?
You’ve never been to the rainforest before!

Getting Gay with Kids is here
To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes ‘cos caring sells
All you activists can go ____ yourselves.

Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There’ll be no more rainforests left in the entire world (world!)

Getting Gay with Kids is here
To spread the word, and bring you cheer
Getting Gay with Kids is here
Let’s knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
It’s totally gay
It’s totally gay!


30 posted on 08/22/2023 7:54:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dixie1202
I've just lost a few people in my weekly routine who have refused or did not disclose [whether or not they had been vaccinated], and it was unfortunate. I feel it's your moral and professional obligation to inform, since we're not all podded up and being tested every single day." She added: "It's tricky because everyone is entitled to their own opinion - but a lot of opinions don't feel based in anything except fear or propaganda."
31 posted on 08/22/2023 7:56:44 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: EEGator

“You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.”


32 posted on 08/22/2023 7:56:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Angelino97

This started 70 years ago. Not last decade. C’mon…. Hollyweird has been the center of leftism since before any of us have been alive.


33 posted on 08/22/2023 7:57:32 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: dfwgator

Such a great movie.


34 posted on 08/22/2023 8:00:02 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Levy78
I'm talking about the current wave of cancel culture, not leftism in general.

And no, Hollywood has never been "the center" of leftism. It's always leaned left, but universities, NGOs, and activist groups have always been the incubators and leaders. Hollywood has always trailed behind.

35 posted on 08/22/2023 8:03:29 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

#28 Well said


36 posted on 08/22/2023 8:31:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: SeekAndFind

You and your kind endorse and built up these people Jenn. I hope you wake up. I hope you bring lots of people over to the sane side if you do.


37 posted on 08/22/2023 8:56:24 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: SeekAndFind

She makes and stars in a show whose premise is how great and empowering cancel culture is.

Hypocrisy isn’t the name of a great Greek philosopher, Jen.


38 posted on 08/22/2023 9:11:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jennifer knew all about Weinstein but never said anything to stop him.
“I remember actually, he came to visit me on a movie to pitch me a movie. And I do remember consciously having a person stay in my trailer.”

She cancelled anyone who did not get the deadly vaccine.
She is a known pothead.
The fillers and botox have ruined her and Courtney Cox’s looks.


39 posted on 08/22/2023 11:13:06 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: ealgeone

Yup.


40 posted on 08/23/2023 2:00:53 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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