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Sarah Silverman Slams Cancel Culture | The View
on her podcast the other day comedian
sarah silverman weighed in
on so-called cancel culture and she
claims there can be unintended
consequences take a look
in this cancel culture and we all know
what i'm talking about
whether you think there is one or there
isn't one or where you stand on it and
there's a lot of gray matter there
but without a path to redemption when
you take someone you found a tweet they
wrote seven years ago
or a thing that they said and you expose
it and you say
this person should be no more banish
them forever
they're going to find some place where
they are accepted
and it's not going to be with
progressives which ironically means
to be changed progress
so this is an issue you all feel
strongly about i'm told barry this is
one that you particularly feel strongly
about
tell me about it i do because i
this is a country and the values that i
believe in believe in giving people
second
chances i believe that no one should be
uh
hung or have their reputation destroyed
or lose their job
because of a mistake or liking a bad
tweet and i think oftentimes when we
talk about canceled culture
people think about celebrities that have
gotten in trouble
people that are famous people that
frankly you know have the financial net
if they lose a job but i think about
someone like emanuel cafferty
emmanuel cafferty worked for the san
diego utility company
he was driving his truck by a protest
a few months ago when his hand was
hanging out the window someone snapped a
picture of his hand and they said that
he was making a white supremacist
hand gesture he is hispanic
his family is from mexico but it didn't
matter
the people that carried out the
investigation at the san diego utility
company
decided that what he was doing was a
racist gesture and he was fired from his
job
now this is a working-class guy he was
playing with his fingers he had no idea
what he was doing
these are the kinds of stories that we
talk about when we're talking about
cancel culture
and i think that i find it ironic that
progressives
as sarah silverman wisely put it in that
clip the kind of people
who talk about giving criminals giving
murderers a second chance the people
that care about things like
prison reform which i also feel
passionately about that they also feel
that someone should have their social
reputation destroyed
because of a mistake like that and and i
just think that that is wrong and it is
deeply un-american
and you have an issue with cancer
culture
as well sonny yes
i do i i have an issue with the term
actually cancel culture because i i
think for far too long
we've let people get away with really
bad behavior
um and now deemed it uh that they're
being cancelled
because of of uh you know
their their behavior rather than being
held accountable
for their behavior i think it's high
time that many people
that behave badly behave
poorly behave in racist manners be held
accountable for it
because there should be consequences to
behavior
so rather than call it cancel culture
why not call it consequence culture why
not
uh call it uh other things like that and
when you look at it through that lens
um then i think that that that's
different um
and um you know we used to say things
were you know
to pc uh well i don't know if you are
the subject
of the behavior um then then perhaps you
look at it a little differently
right there's a difference but sarah
what do you
what what glad sarah even if it was even
if it was called
consequence culture which i tend to use
the term cancel the consequence should
fit the crime and i don't think in this
day and age there's any spectrum for
that bucket of wrong
we put everyone in the same bucket and
there's like a pariah
scarlet letter on them and it often i
actually agree with a lot of what barry
said
it ends up wiping out full families
association people look back and dig and
if you have a picture with a person
that's been
you know suffered a consequence as sonny
would say
your guilt by association you can no
longer be near them i think there's this
unforgiving um culture right now that's
become acceptable it's a mob mentality
and i think
sadly if it were to affect you or
someone you love we would expect more
grace and nuance but we don't extend
that to other people
well i happen to know a little something
about cancer culture as does barry
you know i was canceled i was canceled
if it wasn't for
uh barbara walters saying hey would you
come and do the show
i would still probably be out of work
because i wasn't getting any work for
five years we went through all my
savings
went through everything but she gave me
an opportunity and that's what happens
someone has to make a space for you and
say i'm gonna take the chance
i really believe that it's important to
find out the facts of things
before we just erase stuff because
oftentimes
people are being erased not because you
thought they actually did something bad
but because people have decided that
this is the thing where
we're going after now so i'm real i'm
real particular about going after people
and canceling them because sometimes
they're not guilty
i'm just saying
