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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
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#42This state of things, Kimmel's show being canceled for entirely normal and non-offensive statements, is kind of funny when you try to imagine the steps that had to happen to get here from his start on "The Man Show". The least suprising aspect of this story is that ABC has fascist leanings.
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#43Believe it or not, alienating politics isn't great for business. Neither is peddling conspiracy theories.
Neither of those things occurred, here. Kimmel's remarks were extraordinarily mild, and they also happen to be entirely true.
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#44Believe it or not, alienating politics isn't great for business. Neither is peddling conspiracy theories.
What I had believed, as an outsider to the US, was that US Federal politicians directly leveraging business decisions over a speech issue was explicitly unconstitutional.
What I've come to realise is that few are prepared to bell the cat and prosecute unconstitutional behaviour.
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#46The 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?
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.
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#48I'm unsure where we as a society go from here. The left's cancel culture resulted in the firing of private citizens from their jobs, or at least some reprimand. The right's cancel culture is the full weight of the federal government brought down against opposition, in stark violation of the First Amendment; that is, until the Supreme Court can find some new carve-out for why this isn't protected speech.
Realistically, how could anyone be okay with the level of power this administration is wielding? I struggle to see a peaceful transfer of this specific set of powers. Unless the assumption is just that the left will always behave "more responsibly."
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#49I was expecting something offensive. He's just telling us how he sees the world, and it looks the same as how I've seen this thing. Crazy
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#50Keep in mind that Kimmel has been hinting about retiring for a couple years now, his contract was up in the air, the "late night television show" category is evaporating (if there's still even a Tonight Show in 10 years, it'll be purely for nostalgia), and this sends Kimmel out in a blaze of glory. I think it's too easy to sort of anthropomorphize these kinds of conflicts --- Kimmel's show has a large staff, and he's…
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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