Social Media Outrage/Cancel Culture

[Non Sequitur]

Don Lemon has been spending some time in the dog house:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/media...ing/index.html

When declaring her run for the presidency, Haley called for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75. Lemon argued that Haley, 51, “isn’t in her prime.”

Lemon attempted to support his argument by saying that a woman is only “considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”

Don Lemon is a weird guy, and I'm not much interested in whether he was shamed for holding forth on a woman's prime. The take-away from the article that interests me is the age which Haley chose for her bar for competency tests. She could have said 80. A nice round number. Biden is 80. Well played Nikki. But she didn't say 80, she said 75, and guess who is 76 years old? She's a horrible person and may or may not be in her prime, but I give her credit for the not so subtle salvo.

[falafel]

Don Lemon has been spending some time in the dog house:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/media...ing/index.html



Don Lemon is a weird guy, and I'm not much interested in whether he was shamed for holding forth on a woman's prime. The take-away from the article that interests me is the age which Haley chose for her bar for competency tests. She could have said 80. A nice round number. Biden is 80. Well played Nikki. But she didn't say 80, she said 75, and guess who is 76 years old? She's a horrible person and may or may not be in her prime, but I give her credit for the not so subtle salvo.

75 is a pretty round number too.

[Northwestcoug]

I guess when your cartoon strip gets pulled from some newspapers for highlighting crazy woke culture, you can either go low for a while, or go full on racist?

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[BigPiney]

yeah, that is racist

[smokymountainrain]

never heard of that racist sob. i hope he isn't too famous or that he doesn't wield too much influence.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Wow. That is horrible.

[BigPiney]

never heard of that racist sob. i hope he isn't too famous or that he doesn't wield too much influence.

He writes the Dilbert cartoons. When Trump came about he predicted Trumps rise and made it sound like he did not support him. Turns out he is not a good person and his current not so veiled support of Trump is a good indication of that.

He has quite a bit of influence now.

[Jeff Lebowski]

never heard of that racist sob. i hope he isn't too famous or that he doesn't wield too much influence.

Very famous. Author and creator of Dilbert. MAGA. UT quotes him occasionally.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I predict almost every newspaper in America drops him within a week. He deserves a good cancelling.

[falafel]

Wow. That is scary.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Very disappointing as I've liked a lot of his stuff. He used to live a mile from us and had a restaurant downtown (where CJF bought us dinner, if I recall correctly). Recently, Adams moved up the road to Danville where there are even fewer black people than here in Pleasanton, I'd wager. Our favorite neighbors happen to be black and are great people, but apparently they're the exception. Perhaps the most significant line in Adam's diatribe is "..every damn day I look on social media and there's some black person beating the shit out of some white person." He probably sees such things, but I don't recall ever seeing an example on social media, and it's telling what Adams looks for when he's online. After his sophomoric analysis of the COVID, vaccines, and governmental involvement this compels me not to follow him anymore.

[smokymountainrain]

Very disappointing as I've liked a lot of his stuff. He used to live a mile from us and had a restaurant downtown (where CJF bought us dinner, if I recall correctly). Recently, Adams moved up the road to Danville where there are even fewer black people than here in Pleasanton, I'd wager. Our favorite neighbors happen to be black and are great people, but apparently they're the exception. Perhaps the most significant line in Adam's diatribe is "..every damn day I look on social media and there's some black person beating the shit out of some white person." He probably sees such things, but I don't recall ever seeing an example on social media, and it's telling what Adams looks for when he's online. After his sophomoric analysis of the COVID, vaccines, and governmental involvement this compels me not to follow him anymore.

i follow a twitter account called bestfights (just a bunch of random people getting in fights) - don't take this as a suggestion it as i am very dumb and the things that entertain me are dumb - and it's nearly always black on black or white on white. iow, my experience is similar to yours and i have no clue where he's seeing this stuff. what a racist, moronic, piece of trash.

[chrisrenrut]

I guess when your cartoon strip gets pulled from some newspapers for highlighting crazy woke culture, you can either go low for a while, or go full on racist?

I started his book a few years back but couldn’t finish. Now I don’t feel as guilty about it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Very disappointing as I've liked a lot of his stuff. He used to live a mile from us and had a restaurant downtown (where CJF bought us dinner, if I recall correctly). Recently, Adams moved up the road to Danville where there are even fewer black people than here in Pleasanton, I'd wager. Our favorite neighbors happen to be black and are great people, but apparently they're the exception. Perhaps the most significant line in Adam's diatribe is "..every damn day I look on social media and there's some black person beating the shit out of some white person." He probably sees such things, but I don't recall ever seeing an example on social media, and it's telling what Adams looks for when he's online. After his sophomoric analysis of the COVID, vaccines, and governmental involvement this compels me not to follow him anymore.

He once claimed that if Biden were elected, all republicans would be hunted down and killed within a year.

[All-American]

He once claimed that if Biden were elected, all republicans would be hunted down and killed within a year.

Well since Biden wasn’t actually elected we don’t know that he is wrong.