The hard leftist Cancel Culture Community doesn’t seem to know when it’s time to quit. Once every few months, they assemble, like The Avengers, to target a comedian or other type of entertainer. Perhaps the individual made some off-color comment years ago. Or maybe they expressed a view that runs contrary to the tenets of wokeism.
The social media mob mobilizes to express their less-than-genuine outrage while clutching their digital pearls. High-profile leftist influencers, politicians, and media figures call for the person’s firing. They urge companies employing, or working with, these blasphemers to sever ties.
Then, their efforts completely fall apart.
Emotions over the supposed offense fizzle away like President Joe Biden’s popularity. People continue to consume the offender’s content. They maintain the same level of viewership – and sometimes increase their audience, despite the left’s caterwauling.
In the end, these people remain far from canceled.
This is because some individuals are impervious to cancelation. It has become clear that there are several celebrities whom the woke crowd just cannot get rid of.
Take, for example, the recent brouhaha over comedian Dave Chappelle supposedly opposing affordable housing. RedState’s Nick Arama wrote a piece explaining the Cancel Culture Community’s latest attempt to damage Chappelle’s career and points out that the entertainer “is another person that doesn’t fit within their accepted narrative and has been a target of their cancel culture efforts.”
The issue began as it always does. This time, it started when video footage of Chappelle voicing his objection to a new housing development being proposed for the small Ohio town in which he resides went viral on social media.
“You look like clowns — I am not bluffing,” the comedian told the Yellow Springs Village Council at a town meeting on Monday night. “I will take it all off the table.”
Chappelle threatened to stop investing in business opportunities in the city, pointing out that his investment is far more lucrative than the developer that seeks to build the housing developments. He said:
“I don’t know why the council would be afraid of litigation from a $24 million-a-year company while it’s out a $64 million-a-year-company. I cannot believe you would make me audition for you.”
The village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, voted to kill an affordable housing component of a new development.
Why? One big reason: Hometown comedian Dave Chappelle showed up to say he's "not bluffing" about pulling businesses from the village if it passed. pic.twitter.com/3le10ewit2
— The Recount (@therecount) February 9, 2022
Chappelle plans to convert a fire station into a restaurant called Firehouse Eatery along with a comedy club, called Live from YS. He bought both properties in 2020. While the activist media and high-profile leftists made it sound as if the entertainer did not want affordable housing, his actual objection to the proposal has nothing to do with this.
The Daily Mail reported:
The proposal the council voted on Monday night would have included 64 single-family homes, 52 duplexes and 24 townhomes with an additional 1.75 acres to be donated to the community for affordable housing to be built later, according to the Dayton Daily News.
People working with Chappelle have stated that he believes the project will not benefit residents of the village, nor does it actually benefit those in need of affordable housing. From the Daily Mail:
A source close to Chappelle told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that reports that he opposes an affordable housing component of the project are false.
The person said that Chappelle supports affordable housing, but believes the proposal put forward contains nothing of the kind.
“The developers rushed the project, and got a sweetheart deal with council that was not properly vetted,” the person said. “It doesn’t even include affordable housing.”
We also have the ongoing situation with comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan, who ran afoul of the left for the 13,943th time when he invited guests on his show who expressed opinions that contradict the Democrat-approved narrative about the COVID-19 and vaccines.The San Francisco Chronicle published a whiny-assed article titled “You Won’t Beat Spotify Or Joe Rogan,” in which the article acknowledged that going after Rogan was an exercise in futility.
The author wrote:
But when you’re sitting atop an airplane hangar full of money, you don’t have to engage. You barely even have to try. You can say, “We’re listening,” not listen, and then keep making money. Spotify’s stock here in the U.S. is down a whopping 50% since this time a year ago, but they also just posted a nearly 24% revenue gain to make them a tantalizing buy-low prospect for investors of all kinds. They also now have more than 180 million subscribers worldwide, with more podcast listeners than bloody Apple. Every storm for them passes, as will this one.
The author continued, noting how Spotify knows it can earn more revenue by supporting podcasts in which people can express any ideas they wish:
That’s because there’s a gross imbalance in these ideological fights. That’s always been true here in America, but it’s further exacerbated when the money gets out of hand and when supposedly agnostic “platforms” discover that they can attract a sizable and, in the case of Rogan’s podcast, terrifyingly loyal audience simply by letting horrible people say whatever they want.
That’s right. The author gets it. Spotify is hosting shows on which people can say whatever they want, no matter how “horrible” he thinks it is. But unlike the author, his contemporaries haven’t seemed to realize they can’t act out their authoritarian, anti-Free Speech objectives on folks like Rogan and Chappelle.
So why do they keep trying?
The answer is simple: They just can’t help themselves. Even though they have to see that their efforts to destroy people like Rogan and Chappelle only make them stronger, they can’t stop engaging in the same behavior that has failed over and over again. It is part of being a Marxist; eschewing debate and dialogue in favor of silencing and destroying one’s opposition. It’s in their political DNA.
Trying to get a Marxist to approach these controversies in a reasoned way is like trying to teach a cat to fly. They simply cannot do it. At its roots, far-left progressive wokeism demands the total destruction of those who disagree with its tenets. It’s why cancel culture has become so prevalent. At this point, the only way we can truly defeat it is to become uncancelable. That way, when the social media mobs form, they will be absolutely impotent to the point that the rest of the country tunes them out and they are forced to throw their tantrums in empty rooms.
