Cancel culture has gone absolutely crazy.
You can’t say anything these days without “triggering” a bunch of SJWs to get together and collectively cancel you. I mean, that’s the contention of half the comedy specials on Netflix, so it must be true. They will dig through past comments and behavior to find any excuse. Even after you’re dead, you can still get canceled! The whole situation is getting so out of control that it’s getting hard to keep track of who is and isn’t canceled, so here’s a helpful guide to remind you of some of the celebrities whose cancellations may have escaped your notice.
Mark Wahlberg
Everyone knows Mark Wahlberg as the star of the Ted films, and Mel Gibson’s son in Daddy’s Home 2, but did you know that in his teen years, he was also the perpetrator of a string of brutal, racially motivated assaults, and that he has never acknowledged the racial component of his violent past? But who hasn’t permanently disfigured and partially blinded a man while shouting racial slurs? Still, as a result of this normal, not-at-all upsetting history, Mark Wahlberg was officially cancelled in February. Since then, Wahlberg’s once flourishing film career has collapsed to the point that he is only starring in five major motion pictures currently in production.
Jerry Seinfeld
What a normal-looking couple
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Jerry Seinfeld made himself a target of cancel culture when he called out college kids for not laughing enough at his brilliant “gay French king” joke, but what really sealed the deal was the fact that, at the age of 39, when Seinfeld was the star of America’s favorite sitcom, he was also dating a seventeen-year-old high school student named Shoshanna Lonstein. And yes, he absolutely looked like her awkward father in every picture they took together, but what man in his late thirties hasn’t spent some time outside a high school looking to pick up chicks? Unfortunately for Jerry, the cancel cops got a hold of this info, and officially blacklisted him in August, resulting in Netflix only paying an estimated $500 million for the streaming rights to Seinfeld.
Whoopi Goldberg
Speaking of men and teenage girls, did you know you can be cancelled just for defending someone? That’s what happened to Whoopi Goldberg in response to her 2009 comments on Roman Polanski, in which she said of Polanski’s 1977 crimes “I don’t think it was rape-rape,” despite the victim’s testimony that she continuously resisted his advances as Polanski gave the thirteen year old alcohol and drugs, and proceeded to rape her.
As a result, Donald Trump Jr. headed the team that cancelled Whoopi last October, which is why she has since appeared on The View only 5 days a week. Goldberg joins the ranks of Quentin Tarantino and a host of other prominent Hollywood figures whose careers have been absolutely tanked by impassioned Polanski defenses that are not at all indicative of a horrible culture that values talented men too much to punish horrifying crimes. Besides, it was only 8 years after Sharon Tate’s murder! You can’t be held accountable for anything you do in the decade after a loved one dies, even raping children!
John Lennon
Remember when people used to really idolize John Lennon and The Beatles? Their music used to be really popular, and people would even say mean things about Yoko Ono, blaming her for breaking up the band, not anymore. That all went out the window in July of last year, when a Twitter user reminded the world that John Lennon was a serial abuser, and then cancelled The Beatles. Sure, Lennon abused multiple partners, and at least one of his sons, but ever since Lennon was struck with the same post-mortem cancellation that Michael Jackson received, his solo music and The Beatles’ entire catalogue have dropped completely out of cultural relevance, and is now valued at only around a billion dollars. “Imagine” that.
Drake
Footage recently resurfaced of Drake from a 2010 concert in Denver, in which he brings a girl onstage to dance with her, then takes the opportunity to drape his arms across her chest and kiss her neck before asking her age. When she answers that she’s 17, Drake reacts as any 23 year old would when coming to terms with the fact that his behavior with an underage girl was suggestive and inappropriate. He says, “Why do you look like that? You thick. Look at all this,” and follows that up with, “I like the way your breasts feel against my chest.” Cool.
At any rate, that was nearly a decade ago, and Drake was pretty young himself, there’s probably no reason to look further into the now 33 year old’s tendency to befriend teenage girls who he ends up dating once they’re of age. That’s what the people who cancelled him in January—resulting in him being only the fifth richest rapper on earth—want you to focus on. They want you to be concerned about his friendship with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown but let’s just talk about his grooming habits instead.
On second thought, maybe the hysteria over “cancel culture” attacking any and every tiny misstep is a little overblown. Sure, Kevin Hart didn’t get to host the Oscars, but he definitely still has a career, and James Gunn’s brief cancellation was revoked. Maybe it’s justified to call people out when they screw up, to push for apologies for minor offenses, and to stop giving money and awards to people who’ve done truly monstrous things. Maybe cancel culture should actually be going a lot further…
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