Levar Burton is a genius

[SuperMatt]

I enjoyed this video clip discussing Dr. Seuss in which Levar Burton totally nailed what “cancel culture” truly is:

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Watch LeVar Burton counter Meghan McCain's 'cancel culture' question | Boing Boing

Somehow The View’s Meghan McCain is still offended by the Suess Enterprises decision to stop publishing six books with racist and insensitive material in them. McCain, like many conservatives…

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I think I will be using that term going forward in any discussions of the topic as well.

 

[SuperMatt]

More ppl that aren’t being cancelled whine about being cancelled:

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

More ppl that aren’t being cancelled whine about being cancelled:

It's now just a lie they use to promote garbage.

 

[User.45]

More ppl that aren’t being cancelled whine about being cancelled:

Honestly, this is so fucking shady. Like isn't he supposed to be too busy to write a book?! If he wrote it and did his "research" during his tenure in the Senate, isn't it a sort of a COI to publish and personally profit from something he did on taxpayer money?! Seriously...

 

[SuperMatt]

Honestly, this is so fucking shady. Like isn't he supposed to be too busy to write a book?! If he wrote it and did his "research" during his tenure in the Senate, isn't it a sort of a COI to publish and personally profit from something he did on taxpayer money?! Seriously...

When somebody else is writing the book for you, it doesn’t matter how busy you are.

 

[User.45]

When somebody else is writing the book for you, it doesn’t matter how busy you are.

Absolutely, but it still boils down to privatized profit off taxpayer funded research...assuming there is real research involved....which isn't necessarily true, LOL.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Absolutely, but it still boils down to privatized profit off taxpayer funded research...assuming there is real research involved....which isn't necessarily true, LOL.

GOP research now consists entirely of finding an unemployed blue-collar worker and asking their opinion on any subject. If they use their opinion they then qualify as an expert free to be interviewed as such on any right-wing media news outlet.

 

[User.45]

GOP research now consists entirely of finding an unemployed blue-collar worker and asking their opinion on any subject. If they use their opinion they then qualify as an expert free to be interviewed as such on any right-wing media news outlet.

No matter how sarcastic you are about this, this really happened at Fox re COVID early on.... They picked up rando "experts" off Twitter. (see Todaro)