Cancellations

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Method Man is aka The Panty Raider,

 

[version]

Young Turks changes name to Young due to concerns about reference to Armenian genocide · News ⟋ RA

"We loved the name for what it meant to us, but in retrospect should have listened more carefully to other voices and acted more quickly," founder Caius Pawson announced today.

ra.co

 

[Woebot]

was very sustained by this:

 

[Leo]

obama cancelled!!

jk, he's 100%.

 

[version]

Naomi Wolf banned from Twitter for spreading vaccine myths

Many social media users applaud termination of author’s account, but some have said move is a blow to freedom of speech

www.theguardian.com

 

[sufi]

whoa, Frank Miller cancelled from ComicCon. @droid and I probably support this step

Frank Miller Removed From Thought Bubble Comic Convention Guest List After Being Accused Of Propagating "Abhorrent Anti-Muslim Hate”

Frank Mille has been disinvited from the Thought Bubble comic convention after being accused of propagating "abhorrent anti-Muslim hate."

boundingintocomics.com

i also wonder about whether los bros hernandez lascivious punk chicano comics get away with it these days

 

[sufi]

whoa, Frank Miller cancelled from ComicCon. @droid and I probably support this step

Frank Miller Removed From Thought Bubble Comic Convention Guest List After Being Accused Of Propagating "Abhorrent Anti-Muslim Hate”

Frank Mille has been disinvited from the Thought Bubble comic convention after being accused of propagating "abhorrent anti-Muslim hate."

boundingintocomics.com

i also wonder about whether los bros hernandez lascivious punk chicano comics get away with it these days

shitty comments on that article as you might expect

& it's not the commiccon, it's just a comic convention, in UK

'Why invite someone whose work has done real harm': Convention pulls 'Sin City' creator Frank Miller from its lineup after outcry

The announcement came after attendees said they were dropping out.

www.dailydot.com

a bit more detail about how badly the whole thing has been handled

 

[Leo]

Catch ya later, Andy Cuomo.

 

[Leo]

even biden, who's friends with him, has said he should resign.

 

[Leo]

once someone's accused of sexual harassment, there's only one thing they can do: run for president.

 

[Corpsey]

Prediction: rising political commentary star Oliver Craner will be cancelled by 2022

 

[version]

Bronze Age Pervert just got suspended from Twitter.

 

[luka]

Bronze Age Pervert just got suspended from Twitter.

for being an embaressing loser or some some more specific infraction?

 

[Leo]

Catch ya later, Andy Cuomo.

Toldja

 

[HannahB]

roman polanski
though he should've also been cancelled just for making horrible shit movies

No.

 

[HannahB]

• So Lovecraft was a racist, but is still not quite cancelled?
• R Kelly, the paedo/sex abuser, cancelled? I would still like to be able to hear his tunes, but i don't think it's allowed now
• MJ likewise, but his tunes are canonical?
• Conrad was a bit racist too, but is not cancelled, afaik
• I personally cancelled Tea for racist outbursts
• Weinstein - i guess there should be a list of movies that he made that we should avoid
• but Woodie Allen, is he on his way to rehabilitation now?
• our own Nina, could we rehabilitate her? How??

It's not black and white, is it? and i'm definitely not arguing for these beasts,
obviously there are all kinds of factors and complexities - the gravity of the offence - was it just words or was it actions? was it a crime? did they do the time? Did they apologise? who suffered?
how far back was it? how much water has passed under the bridge? how have our attitudes changed since?

Should we have a consistent reaction, or is there space fot personal subjectivity? Are some cancellations undermined by our own prejudices?

How come our puritanical impulses have deepened in some respects but not others? How does Boris sail through?

So many questions,
Can we have a policy clarification, please, or at least some robust guidance

Can’t cancel Weinstein

cancel Weinstein movies can’t cancel Picasso work can cancel Riefenstahl films can cancel Woody Alle

• So Lovecraft was a racist, but is still not quite cancelled?
• R Kelly, the paedo/sex abuser, cancelled? I would still like to be able to hear his tunes, but i don't think it's allowed now
• MJ likewise, but his tunes are canonical?
• Conrad was a bit racist too, but is not cancelled, afaik
• I personally cancelled Tea for racist outbursts
• Weinstein - i guess there should be a list of movies that he made that we should avoid
• but Woodie Allen, is he on his way to rehabilitation now?
• our own Nina, could we rehabilitate her? How??

It's not black and white, is it? and i'm definitely not arguing for these beasts,
obviously there are all kinds of factors and complexities - the gravity of the offence - was it just words or was it actions? was it a crime? did they do the time? Did they apologise? who suffered?
how far back was it? how much water has passed under the bridge? how have our attitudes changed since?

Should we have a consistent reaction, or is there space fot personal subjectivity? Are some cancellations undermined by our own prejudices?

How come our puritanical impulses have deepened in some respects but not others? How does Boris sail through?

So many questions,
Can we have a policy clarification, please, or at least some robust guidance

Can’t cancel Weinstein movies can’t cancel Picasso work can cancel Riefenstahl films can cancel EVERYTHING MERCHANT IVORY or BBC.
Thank you.

 

[poetix]

Actually thoroughly cancelling Weinstein would be like experiencing the Death of God. We have no real conception of what our mass culture would be without those movies. We have cancelled Weinstein only personally and tokenistically: in the very depths of our iconography, our cinematico-symbolic thought, we remain Weinsteinians.

 

[HannahB]

If you live and work in patriarchy and are its object of gaze you have experienced this treatment over and over again in varying degrees even if not to this degree but have not been paid to this degree either (for this extent of abuse) - [am not condoning]; casting couch is history of Hollywood film, idea of woman is object of camera man gaze. Not saying what I want to say here, it’s too public.

 

[HannahB]

Cancel p andrew NOW!! and his little dog too and whole family

 

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