• mienshao@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This is why I sincerely do not believe in ‘cancel culture.’ Who’s actually been cancelled? Cuz every time I’ve ever seen a rich/powerful/famous man get credibly accused of assaulting women (we’ve seen the Cassie Ventura video), he walks. Weinstein is the literal only exception I know of.

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      Don Imus? He actually got fired. After a lot of apologies he got back on the air, though

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        Yeah, this is baffling to me too. I guess it’s like all the serial killers who get love letters in prison.

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      Michael Jackson didn’t go to jail, but it effectively ended his career. Cosby got destroyed. R Kelly eventually ended up in jail.

      Also remember the positive and negative of jury trials is that it takes one idiot in the 12.

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        It’s so weird when y’all say cancel culture is just being punished for crimes you commit. “He raped someone and went to jail for it that’s cancel culture.” That’s a fucking weird statement.

        Also I don’t know why you think Michael Jackson’s career had been ended. He was scheduled to start a new tour the next month after his death.

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        Interesting… So if you want to do a sexual abuse successfully it seems like you should try being white. I never expected this.

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              Sentenced 5 months for an average 3 year sentence. Sentenced to 4 years only served 19 months. Expected to serve 9 of an 11 year sentence that was nearly two years shorter of a sentence than her male peer.

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      Cancel culture is a bullshit term. You’re painting yourself as a member of an undesirable cadre. People below already provided multiple examples of accusations being well founded, so I won’t repeat them.