[TheJaz]

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Originally Posted by IndigoArms

So if Apu was so problematic, why wait nearly 3 decades to go after him, hmmm.
That's completely ignorant of you to think Cancel Culture is just a boogie man.
Normally anyone that says that probably takes part in it themselves.

Vic Mignogna has been blacklisted after those accusations hit, all because he was a christian, which the people in Funimation don't like him for.
Quinton Flynn was recently hit with it that cost him roles, like NMH3 and getting removed from WoW, even though he took the accuser to court and actually won it, so he's innocent, but the damage was done and we don't know if he'll get any roles again.
Chris Avellone got hit with it and guess what, not getting work, even though he said the person was full of shit, which he backed up.
Developer of that Harry Potter game, all because he watches videos of people criticizing SJW's, which is not against the law as I recall.
That's the idea of cancel culture, hurt them and the careers with out of context and lies.
Saying how most people bounce back from is insanely insensitive to the ones that don't bounce back and their lives ruined.

With Apu it's pretty simple that it's hard to speak against things that the majority of people enjoy, this is part of why it took so long for allegations to come out against Bill Cosby for example, people don't like to hear that things they like are bad, whether the "things they like" is a real person, a fictional character, a show, or what have you

If you're the one to tell someone that things they like are bad they're more likely to get upset with you than to agree with you right away, it's scary to call out shitty things, most people in fact do not like to break bad news to people

I knew kids in school who would be harassed by jerks saying shit like "go back to the kwik-e-mart Apu" that shit was rough on them, but they had to act like it was fine, because they felt like if they let the bullies see it hurt them the bullying would just get worse

It's not easy to fight back against negative representation, or against abusers, or just shitty people, when those representations or people are normalized or popular, it's not weird that it took a long time for the backlash to become loud enough and out in the open enough that it felt like a floodgate opened, before the internet it was hard to see how small bits of hurt to people could add up, it was hard to see everyone who's life was negatively effected by poor representation, but now it's easy to see how that can add up

I also have to point out that Vic is working still, he did the JoJo part 4 dub, and the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan dub long after getting cancelled, so using Vic as an example of a poor man hurt by cancel culture rings hollow (also he was cancelled because he was very creepy to minors, not because of his faith)

And for some of the the other examples llike the game dev, well its like Kurona said, this is just the free market in action, if people don't like someone they don't need to give them money, they have no reason to, and if companies see people won't buy things certain people are in or work on they won't really hire them

It doesn't really matter if someone did a crime or not, the public doesn't owe anyone their money or support

Clearly these people haven't lost all support either, I mean you're here supporting them right? They must still have fans and supporters, so it's hard for me to buy into the idea that any of these people are totally ruined

I've seen dozens of total creeps bounce back into success, it's the norm not the exception

Plus while it can feel like everyone's out to cancel everyone, for every tweet saying "This celebrity did a bad thing!" there's usually just as many tweets supporting that person, or calling the people upset "snowflakes" or whatever