Ollie Robinson cancel culture what do you believe?

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The latest news is about Ollie Robinson about a cricket player who when he was 18 years old was found tweeting sexist and racist things.

England dropped him and made him apologise. And there is no idea if he will ever return.

We can all agree that people need to be hold accountable for their actions. Some people definitely should be cancelled e.g. Katie Hopkins, Anjem Chowdhury as they will never change (or they aren't willing to.)

But if someone did something say 5 years ago or more and they do not hold these views anymore surely they deserve some sort of chance?

Definitely education is needed which can stop people having ignorant people (not everyone though but many people)

Plus with cancel culture there is a double standard if you say we should cancel then a lot of people should be cancelled e.g. Chris Brown, Camila Cabello (racist messages in the past etc..)

So because the left can be hypocritical, the right should be too?

But it is the right that are making decrying 'cancel culture' the current big issue, while constantly engaging in it themselves.

Dont be fooled. 'Cancel culture', if that's what we are now calling it, has existed for as long as any of us have been alive, and it isnt a particularly left or right wing phenomenon. It's just a narrative that's currently convenient for the right wing to push, particularly to their more uncritical would-be voters.

Nutrafin

The American right wing is frothing, decrying it as cancel culture and launching petitions to demand the resignation of the school board....or, y'know... trying to cancel them

Its been going on in the UK for decades with various middle and left wing groups stopping speakers at universities, yet in the last few years they have bene very vocal about being cancelled in those same spaces.

@Nutrafin

So because the left can be hypocritical, the right should be too?

But it is the right that are making decrying 'cancel culture' the current big issue, while constantly engaging in it themselves.

Dont be fooled. 'Cancel culture', if that's what we are now calling it, has existed for as long as any of us have been alive, and it isnt a particularly left or right wing phenomenon. It's just a narrative that's currently convenient for the right wing to push, particularly to their more uncritical would-be voters.

Yet it is the left that is currently turning upon itself when there own side doesn't conform.

Yet it is the left that is currently turning upon itself when there own side doesn't conform.
That's the meme, but then the right do it to themselves to (the Conversative Party have suspended several of it's own members in recent years, for racist comments and alike).

The left do it to the right.
The right so it to the left.
The left do it to the left.
The right do it to the right.

And didnt Liz Cheney just get cancelled by the Republican Party for speaking out against Trump? Does that mean the right is turning in on itself too?

But it is the right that are making decrying 'cancel culture' the current big issue

Because it is. People are losing their jobs for expressing an opinion (sometimes about issues that are much more banal than what is being discussed on this thread)

while constantly engaging in it themselves

Law of action-reaction, maybe?

@Nutrafin

And didnt Liz Cheney just get cancelled by the Republican Party for speaking out against Trump? Does that mean the right is turning in on itself too?

We are getting a long way from cricket. Perhaps just as well, if you're English.

@Nutrafin

And didnt Liz Cheney just get cancelled by the Republican Party for speaking out against Trump? Does that mean the right is turning in on itself too?

She has lost the leadership part of her job but is still in congress and plans to run for president, so not really cancelled.