@JakeyBoy that book was excellent, absolutely excellent.
I remember when the controversy about the guy at the tech conference was blowing up who made a joke about dongles. Twitter was hot that day.
That was a really awful situation. The guy was clearly not speaking to the person he offended, got doxed, got fired, the person he offended got doxed and got fired because people were so mad she reported him. It was a cluster. Those are the people who I think can have a genuine issue with “cancellation” or internet mob justice. They’re just regular people.
His (female) friend was an artist who designed a rad Hawaiian type shirt for him with a bunch of 50s type sci-fi pin up girls on it and he promised her he’d wear it on TV when they landed on the comet as a little shout out to her.
Man, I thought you were gonna say it had a swastika or noose on it. That’s kind of “who gives a shit” to me but I can absolutely see people getting bent out of shape over it.
We landed a probe on a rock moving at 100k km/h which is an insane feat of brains, technology, engineering, megalomania and team work and the moment was stolen by someone whining about the print on a shirt and for many the whole thing went down in history as “that dude who started crying over his shirt” lol
Cancel culture absolutely exists and the main type I have an issue with is when professors get sacked for speaking against the apartheid policies of Israel
I am still salty.
We allowed a handful of women who had no interest in studying in STEM field managed to complain about a shirt discouraging women from joining STEM field.
The world of glamour where nepotism, perversion, being objectified didn’t stop women from joining but yes bunch of nerds wearing a shirt would sway them away.
If he’d said that about Jews or gays dying in the Holocaust he would never work again. People still think it’s ok to hate Gypsies and Travellers though.
I don’t think he hates them. I don’t think he means it, but it’s the cheapest of laughs at the expense of one of the most maligned groups out there.
What a fucking sick idiot, its fascist far right that still want to wipe out the Roma, it doesn’t matter if he meant it he said it, and the audience laughed, cunts.
Yeah, I agree. Even though I don’t think he should be cancelled or ‘never work again’ had he said it about Jews or homosexuals. They’re jokes and I’ve enjoyed jokes by that very same comedian that are more effed up than this.
so the answer is probably yes