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Her cancel culture takes are consistently bad and a great example of white women's role in protecting white supremacy. https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/1319817018837667840
She has spoken in the past about "cancel culture" being a marketing tool for her. It's just about faux victimhood and channeling ire towards marginalized people for daring to complain about oppression and violence.
Sarah Silverman is among the social elites who misappropriatie "cancel culture," further twisting it and removing it from its original meaning. She conjures it to stir up moral panic about marginalized voices being increasingly heard.
"Canceling a person, place, or thing is socially mediated phenomena with origins in queer communities of color. ...The reference was subsequently seized upon by outside observers, particularly journalists with an outsized ability to amplify the(ir own) white gaze."
"Politicians, pundits, celebrities, academics, and everyday people alike have narrativized being canceled into a moral panic akin to actual harm, adding a neologic twist on the origin of the practice by associating it with an unfounded fear of censorship and silencing."
"But being canceled—a designation, it should be noted, usually reserved for celebrities, brands, and otherwise out-of-reach figures—should be read as a last-ditch appeal for justice." - @meredithdclark
It's worth noting Silverman got into cancel cukture because she lost a job for doing black face. Instead of just taking the L for doing something racist, she's embraced reactionary politics to claim victimhood when she was the person who did the original harm!
Anyway, never listen to cancel culture takes from rich white people with a history of racist acts
I literally wrote a Patreon blog about cancel culture using her as my framework because she's such a good example of how it's used by the powerful. I'll x-post it to my newsletter for the public this weekend. Too sleepy to do it tonight lol http://Wagatwe.substack.com
