Cancel Culture an epidemic

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Like the “Me Too” movement has become out of control all year, there’s a problem we all know that’s becoming a killer epidemic all year. “Cancel Culture”. Some Radio stations in parts of the world are doing that by trying to kill off Michael Jackson’s music from the airwaves and people like us are now fighting back by debunking every lies, downloading and purchasing songs, singles and albums as sales keeping on increasing for months keeping his legacy alive.

Now recently Don Cherry is suffering the same epidemic by getting fired by Sportsnet and Rogers last week for the “You people” remark which he refers to everybody in Canada to purchase a poppy for Remembrance Day to honour soldiers dead and alive who fight in wars like we Canadians do every year which is traditional, his firing angers millions of Canadians including myself and the legendary Bruin Bobby Orr, protesting at Sportsnet and even signing petition to support Grapes. The media and haters believed the “You people” remark is racist. WRONG! That remark is NOT racist at all, they’re the ones whom are racist and/or idiots wanting to keep attacking Cherry left and right for several years wanting him to get fired and they got it. What Sportsnet and Rogers did was disrespectful, disgraceful, deceitful and disgusting, a complete violation of “Freedom of Speech” in Canada.

Cancel Culture is a disease for ruining and killing our cultures that should not be violated and should be left alone. That disease should leave both Michael and Don alone!

 

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Dixie Chicks on being the first targets of 'Cancel Culture' (March 16, 2020)

 

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by Josef Adalian | June 22, 2020 | Vulture

Four episodes of 30 Rock, including two featuring Jane Krakowski’s Jenna character in blackface, are being removed from subscription streaming services Hulu and Amazon Prime and have also been made unavailable for sale on purchase platforms such as iTunes and Google Play. The episodes, which will no longer air on traditional TV either, were pulled at the request of NBCUniversal executive producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. A source tells Vulture the four episodes, some of which have already vanished, should be gone by the end of this week.

“As we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in race-changing makeup are best taken out of circulation,” Fey wrote in a letter to the platforms that streamed or sold 30 Rock. “I understand now that ‘intent’ is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness. I thank NBCUniversal for honoring this request.”

The two Jenna blackface episodes being removed, which were gone at least a week ago, per Reddit observers, are from the third and fifth seasons of 30 Rock. The season-three episode, “Believe in the Stars,” aired first on November 6, 2008, and includes a plot in which Jenna (Krakowski) and Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) decide to swap identities in order to determine whether black men or white women face more challenges in society. This “experiment” includes Jenna darkening her skin. Her character again appears in blackface in the season-five episode “Christmas Attack Zone,” this time dressed as former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann at a party with boyfriend Paul (Will Forte), who dressed as Natalie Portman, in a spoof of Black Swan.

In addition, Universal is removing season six’s live episode in which guest star Jon Hamm appears in a wig and crude blackface, part of a spoof of the racist radio and TV show Amos ’n’ Andy. The studio is also pulling the East Coast version of 30 Rock’s first live episode (season five’s “Live Show”); the West Coast version will remain. Vulture is trying to find out the precise reason the East Coast version has been removed. That version did include a fake Fox News chyron that read “Exclusive Interview With Kenyan Liar,” a reference to the baseless birther conspiracy pushed by far-right politicians, including Donald Trump. The West Coast version of the live episode subs in a chyron reading “Impartial Interview With Barack Obammunist.”

The 30 Rock news comes two weeks after WarnerMedia’s HBO Max platform removed Gone With the Wind from the newly launched service. In that instance, however, the company said the film would return with new warnings and an introduction from TCM host and University of Chicago media studies professor Jacqueline Stewart explaining why the movie is problematic. Amazon is currently weighing whether or not to take down or edit episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard, which features the racist Confederate flag in every episode.

 

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JK Rowling wanted to end the epidemic with an open letter.

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