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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by rat87 »

epicureanideal wrote: post #19
armenarmen wrote: post #12

The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.

Is there some way the two sides could reliably arrive at a truce on the issue of cancellation?

What truce? Sometimes cancelation is good, sometimes it's not. It depends on the why. Also Republican principles these days are just to blindly follow whatever Trump wants including complaining about cancelation and renaming bases to confederate generals and blackmailing companies into firing people

Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by xp84 »

techpineapple wrote: post #46
epicureanideal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there some way the two sides could reliably arrive at a truce on the issue of cancellation?

I think the problem is it’s not the moderate 80% of each party that’s doing it, so all of the people who might be inclined to a truce are already at the table waiting.

Couldn't agree more with this. The majority of Americans think that the "leftest and rightest" people they know are absolute wackos.

Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by lawlessone »

fullshark wrote: post #64
epicureanideal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there some way the two sides could reliably arrive at a truce on the issue of cancellation?

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Are things like racism and sexism being bad exclusive to the left?

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Post by zzgo »

throwawa14223 wrote: post #75
armenarmen wrote: post #12

The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.

I believe they changed when the government put pressure on social media during COVID. I think that caused a huge attitude shift among the right.

Bill Maher rather famously lost his job on ABC 20+ years ago related to his comments about the 9/11 hijackers. I don't think conservatives cancelling people in the media for speech they don't like is anything new within the last 5 years.

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Post by dttze »

throwawaylaptop wrote: post #59
jimmydoe wrote: post #50

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so far it seems the kid is friendly to trans, and loves guns, which fits neither lefty or maga labels. rushing to conclusion seems peak american idiocracy

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Post by _wire_ »

Republicans are continually outraged by cancel culture, and Republican hypocrisy is (without hyperbole) sociopathic.

News just today--

Republican DoJ censored longitudinal study previously published by DoJ which revealed that far and away the most U.S. political violence is perpetrated by... Republicans! Both internally and internationally.

Utah Republicans put a suicide watch on Kirk-shooting suspect because they want the pleasure of killing him themselves.

Noem is bragging that she shot the family hunting dog because he was "worthless"; all he would do is "massacre chickens" at her hunting lodge, and tried to bite her. She also put down a "disgusting, musky billy goat" that lived around her compound. She said wanted to come clean and show how she can "responsibility". She bragged that the story of shooting her dog got her the top slot at ICE.

Republicans:

- Bullying - Bigotry - Censorship - Election interference - Gerrymandering - Blackballing - Targeting for death - Persecuting - Trafficking - Inciting & agitating - Grifting

The beat goes on.

As W used to say "You're either with us..."

Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

dismalaf wrote: post #69
tenuousemphasis wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The FCC threatened to revoke ABC's broadcast license. That is government censorship, a direct attack on free speech.

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> Kimmel was straight up spreading misinformation about the shooter.

There's been an absolute ton of that going around. Who else has been pulled from the air?

What Kimmel said was

> “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”[1]

If that's "misinformation", and I'd love to hear how any part of that beside being "one of them" could even be considered so; regardless, it's pretty mild compared to some of the crazy shit we've been hearing lately.

[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/abc-yanks-jimmy-kimmels...

Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by kulahan »

ceejayoz wrote: post #58
kulahan wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man, can you at least elaborate? This kind of comment isn’t what I wanna see HN devolve into. He’s definitely right with that sentence. Do you not think it’s generally true that the right has been on the defensive with regards to cancel culture, and thus is constantly preaching about how cancelling is wrong? The few times they’ve gotten to go on the offensive, they play the same game, cancelling whoever it is they’re…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._national_anthem_kneeling_...

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