Originally Posted by
Wandering_Wand
Definitely a bit of both. Most comedians are.
Do you realize that cancel culture as it has been and currently is actually does prohibit people from speaking their minds? Do you know why? Because when the woke cancel mob on Twitter or wherever wants to "Rheeeeee!" about an opinion they don't like, controversial or not, they coordinate and then attack these people directly going as far as death threats to killing off these people's ways of living. Oddly, Dave mentions that in his special The Closer - when you take away a person's livelihood, it's akin to killing them. I agree.
Cancel culture is bad. It may have started out with good intentions, but there's a saying about those. I don't think it's a controversial take for me to reach out with an olive branch to you and say "hey, I think cancel culture has gone too far now, time to reel it in and let people get back to living."
If you disagree with that, then there is no further need for discussion because one side (yours) is clearly not willing to negotiate or accept ideas/thoughts/opinions outside of what you think is acceptable, whereas I am the opposite.
People on the right are becoming more liberal as the left continues its march to totalitarianism. Maybe you can't see it because you're on that side, but as someone who doesn't exactly describe themselves as "right" and is more of a spectator in all of this, I can see the window moving.
Aye, we are no longer there. The divisions that are currently occurring are effectively irreconcilable at this going rate. Back in the early 2000s when I was on Internet boards, you used to be able to have decent conversations that would only get mildly heated. Nowadays, what we're having here is an anomaly in that there hasn't been name calling [yet] or bans or canceled threads. We'll see how long it can continue.
To finish with the subject at hand, I watched The Closer. It was good comedy but also had quite a bit of sincerity from Dave. I wish him the best and don't find anything he said controversial. People need to try getting off social media and living their lives a little so they can stop finding things to be perpetual victims of. It's unhealthy and reaches a point where some people need to consider mental health options.