Originally Posted by
Tendrin
Cancel culture isn't real, friend. It's a moral panic over people over people pointing out that 'our faves are problematic'. People are still listening to David Bowie despite his well known habit of statutory rape, you know? Asking media not to broadcast anti-trans slurs by inviting transphobes who are doing demonstrable harm to individual people, and were known to be doing so at the time, /is not a high bar to cross/, but here you are defending it anyway because you're more scared of that than you are of the actual harm that broadcasting the idea that trans women are sexual predators.
I mean, HP Lovecraft is at an all time high in media exposure and he's /still not cancelled/, despite having been dead for eighty frigging years. It's all noise and a lot of white fragility.