a huge collection of semi-angery tweets:

[P.S. read them if you want to, otherwise might as well just skip them, but if you do read them, remember that my intentions are never malicious and I did my best to be politically correct, and also thank you!!]

stan twitter will have literal fourteen year olds and sixteen year olds talking 24/7 about how they want to get railed by middle-aged celebrities but god forbid someone says something they don't like in the slightest and they'll mobilize cancel culture against them

cancel culture is low-key cyberbullying when it is done for an issue blown out of proportion, and also when it is done against someone not big/popular enough to matter

the same people who participate in cancel culture delete their own DMs once a week because they're scared

cancel culture against billionaires who evade taxes and mistreat their workers, and cancel culture against authors who incite misogyny is one thing but cancel culture against that one classfellow who is sexist because he's a product of the same toxic patriarchy that you hate too

I know what some people will say, they'll go "tHe pEoPLe wHo hAtE cAnCeL cULtUrE aRe tHe sAmE pEoPLe wHo aRe sCaReD oF bEiNg caLLed oUt fOr tHEir biGoTrY"
sigh,, say what you want
doesn't change the fact that I do my utmost to pledge my support to minority/marginalized groups

ooh something you may not know: cancel culture has started to affect jobs to the extent where it can get a person fired from a job

meddling with someone's livelihood? shame

cancel culture has gotten actors fired from certain TV shows because people discovered that the actor was a vile person ten years ago

the people who got him cancelled were most of the same people who used to say all those things but irl instead of on twitter (no paper trail)

ok now I am switching my tone from angery to informative as well as to neutral-ish, and from the perspective of someone who watched multiple events like these unfold in front of my eyes over the recent years:

case study time:
case 1:
hartley sawyer
in june 2020, hartley sawyer got fired from the CW show, The Flash, after old tweets of his that resurfaced in which he had said extremely bad, vile stuff

calling them inappropriate is a huge understatement

TW: they contain blatant misogyny, clear racism, mentions of suicide, mentions of molestation, mentions of (domestic-) violence, every possible unacceptable thing

so be warned before googling them

after the tweets resurfaced and made it to the public eye, he got called out in 2020 and eventually got fired from The Flash

the entire cast unfollowed him soon after on social media

thing is, the specific tweets that he got fired over, the tweets containing the vile content, were between 2011 and 2014 exclusively

I read most of those tweets and I was disgusted to my core, I would never do anything close to that and I would also not be friends with someone who says/believes in that kind of stuff

it was SEVEN years ago. he may as well have been a completely different person.

he publicly apologized deeply and profoundly. he said that he was disgusted with his past behavior. the apology didn't contain a video of him fake crying or making up excuses. he mentioned about how he has tried to be a better person since then through guidance from friends.

he talked about how it was not acceptable and despite the fact that it was ages ago, it does not take away from the fact that it hurt many people and that he can't do anything to redeem himself.

it was a public apology, moreover, a public apology done right.

if your argument is: "just dont be a shitty person to begin with"
I have some news for you
its proven that people change, especially over a time as long as seven years.
and no one is born a bad person, and hate is only taught.

you, the person reading this, could've been in that situation just as easily had you gone down a different path due to some incident in your past

every day I thank God for the fact that my surrounding people and friends helped shape me into a, to some extent, good person

I remember the years 2011 to 2014 with reasonably good memory. there were way too many people who said much more horrible, vile stuff on a daily basis at school. and it was normalized through complacency.

the fact that someone gets demonized for past actions that are barely even a representation of their current self shows that there's no point in changing if a person is apparently just gonna stay a dirtbag to people despite their genuine attempts to better themselves

handing someone a public death sentence is hardly ethical, and its something twitter needs to understand

he verbally hurt people seven years ago, realized his mistakes, put genuine effort into becoming a better person and after all that, lost his most prestigious job

hartley sawyer's character on The Flash, Ralph Dibny aka Elongated Man, was a literal representation of a bad person trying his hardest into becoming a good person, but seems like the obvious analogy was lost on twitter because twitter operates on two hate-fueled brain cells

and an individual's ethics are a representation of their background. not just their upbringing but their surrounding people.

generally speaking, being raised in a bigoted society (and america and pakistan are both ground zero for bigotry) makes a person much much more likely to be bigoted, and vice versa
kind of how a person born into poverty is much more likely to steal than someone born into wealth

being a good person is, by most definitions, a privilege borne out of luck, and privilege is a responsibility that you need to use wisely

use your privilege to help those who don't have it, not look down on those who don't have it

all arguments and criticism will be appreciated