Cancel culture has gone too far

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Feb 13, 2021.


  1. Her comments seem to hope for peace and prosperity for both sides. Lefty twats getting their vaginas all clenched.

    Problem is depiste what actions Israel has taken that are excessive.... anytime Israel mentiones they want to have their nation free and safe, Palestinians have an uproar because they do not believe Israel has a right to exist at all. Plain and simple.

    We can talk about the excessive force Israel has used in its history but Palestinians, many who never even lived in that area still think Israel should be destroyed and replaced.
     
    #541     May 13, 2021
  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Washington times gonna times

    The problem here's GWB's relying on a garbage source Washington Times who've made up a story about non-existing "cancelling" because some twat got butt hurt on twitter. Cancel culture is the most current con of the cons.
     
    #542     May 13, 2021
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  3. yeah it said Palestinians had an uproar... like they were a fan of Gal Gadot to begin with haha.... half the males in Gaza probablyget off to her pics.
     
    #543     May 13, 2021
  4. Cuddles

    Cuddles

     
    #544     May 18, 2021
  5. Overnight

    Overnight

    That is only if they can sneak the masturbation past their four-five wives.

    I think if Allah catches you masturbating, he cuts off your Johnson.

     
    #545     May 18, 2021
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Chrissy Teigen has a large social media following - over the years she has used the platforms to attack others and get them canceled. Now Karma is coming home to roost.

    Chrissy Teigen is being cancelled herself. People on the internet have organized to take her down for all of her past abuses.

    Most of the outlets which sell her wares have dropped her product line at this point, Macy's, Bloomingdales, and others. She is quickly watching her income drop to zero.

    Social media has become nothing more than a platform to attack others so they lose income and supporters - a complete circus. In this situation -- where a canceller who has a long term history of abusing others and cancelling them -- it is difficult to take a stand to root for any of them... or just to sit back while watching these entertainers self-destruct.

    6 celebrities Chrissy Teigen has targeted online before getting canceled herself
    'Cravings' author hasn't held back from jabbing superstars like Mariah Carey and more
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...en-spoken-out-against-before-getting-canceled
     
    #546     May 21, 2021
  7. gwb-trading

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    #547     May 21, 2021
  8. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.sfgate.com/politics/art...ciated-Press-Israel-Palestine-AP-16192391.php

    An interview with Emily Wilder, recent Stanford grad fired from AP job over criticisms of Israel

    Emily Wilder, a journalist and 2020 graduate of Stanford University, started a new job as an Associated Press news associate based in Maricopa County, Arizona, on May 3.

    Two weeks later, she was unceremoniously fired by the news outlet after conservatives resurfaced old social media posts that drew attention from Republicans
    as prominent as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. In Wilder's eyes, her firing is the latest example of right-wing cancel culture.

    "There's no question I was just canceled,"
    Wilder told SFGATE by phone Thursday afternoon. "This is exactly the issue with the rhetoric around 'cancel culture.' To Republicans, cancel culture is usually seen as teens or young people online advocating that people be held accountable over accusations of racism or whatever it may be, but when it comes down to who actually has to deal with the lifelong ramifications of the selective enforcement of cancel culture — specifically over the issue of Israel and Palestine — it's always the same side."

    Wilder, who worked with the Arizona Republic upon graduation until this May, became a national news story after the Stanford College Republicans wrote a Twitter thread Monday highlighting Wilder's pro-Palestine activism in college as well as some of her old Facebook posts. In one post, Wilder referred to the late Sheldon Adelson — who was a Jewish billionaire, Republican mega-donor and staunch defender of Israel — as a "naked mole rat."

    Wilder, who is Jewish, said she would not have used such language today. Not long after the thread started to gain steam on Twitter, Wilder says an Associated Press editor called her and said she would not get in trouble for her past activism and social media activity.

    "The editor said I was not going to get in any trouble because everyone had opinions in college," Wilder said. "Then came the rest of the week."

    On Tuesday, the conservative Washington Free Beacon published an article about Wilder, writing, "The hire could fuel concerns about the AP's objectivity amid revelations that the news outlet shared an office building with Hamas military intelligence in Gaza." On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the Associated Press offices in Gaza after the Israeli government said the militant group Hamas operated out of the same building. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday he hasn’t yet seen any evidence supporting Israel’s claim. Reportedly, a cease-fire was issued on Thursday, after the deaths of at least 227 people in Gaza and 12 in Israel.

    On Wednesday, two more conservative outlets — The Federalist and Fox News — published their own stories on Wilder, and Cotton tweeted of Wilder's employment, "Not a surprise from a media organization that shared office space with Hamas."

    Wilder said she received an "onslaught of absolutely vile messages" as the story picked up steam. On Thursday, her employer delivered the final gut punch.

    "They told me that I violated their social media policy and would be terminated immediately, but they never said which tweet or post violated the policy," she said. "I asked them, 'Please tell me what violated the policy,' and they said, 'No.'"

    An Associated Press spokesperson confirmed to SFGATE that Wilder "was dismissed for violations of AP’s social media policy during her time at AP," but did not address any other issue Wilder raised, stating that the AP generally does not comment on personnel matters.

    Wilder said that because her editor originally noted that "everyone had opinions in college," she sees her firing as selective enforcement against those who have expressed criticisms of Israel.

    "This is clearly a case of selective enforcement," she said. "I don’t buy their convenient cover story at all because they never told me what specifically I did wrong, and in the termination letter, they said the harassment campaign prompted the review, and in that review they found supposed violations of their policy.

    "That’s an admission this was prompted by the campaign against me, and it's really unfortunate the Associated Press is abdicating their responsibility to not only me, but to all journalists just because a group of college students wanted to engage in a witch hunt."

    Wilder has since received support on Twitter, with several prominent journalists coming to her defense.

    "Amazing how quickly a talented young reporter's career can be snuffed out by a Twitter mob that decided to feign outrage over some college tweets," tweeted the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler. "And if [Wilder] somehow violated @AP's social-media rules, the solution is to offer guidance, not termination, to a new reporter."

    "'Hire [Emily Wilder]' is something more and more people are saying," wrote Kessler's Washington Post colleague Dave Weigel.


    Wilder notes she was covering Arizona-specific news for the Associated Press prior to her termination, and while she still has strong opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, "every journalist has opinions" that are not relevant to "fact-based reporting."

    The now-unemployed Wilder is currently in the process of sorting out her next steps but said she regrets none of her past activism.

    "It’s devastating of course," she said. "I love journalism and part of what I think makes me such a capable, powerful journalist is how much I care about the people I write about, particularly the marginalized. That’s why I joined the Associated Press, and they saw me as capable. This is of course a really hard situation, and I'm not sure what’s going to happen next."
     
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    #548     May 21, 2021
  9. smallfil

    smallfil

    #549     May 22, 2021


  10. AP got caught lying through its arse when it said that it did not know that Hamas was running operations out of the same location as AP in Gaza. So in the manner of pussies, they are trying to execute lower level staff to distance themselves from their clear pro-hamas, pro palestinian positions. AP flames on about the person they fired by saying that it is critical that other AP reporters around the world not be put in danger. Meanwhile they located their office right next to Hama in Gaza, knowing that the IDF had all things Hamas in the crosshairs of its missiles. Process that one.



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    #550     May 22, 2021
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