When Will It End?

No, not the lockdown. In some ways, that will never end without a serious uprising, and when I say serious, I'm talking about the real people in the world, not the basement-dwelling Ivy League commies pooping in the streets of Portland.

But I digress.

I mean, when are we going to cancel the cancel culture?

Every day we hear more stories about a celebrity or a CEO or even some poor schmuck being cancelled because of something he said or did a lifetime ago. A museum curator was fired for saying he would collect the works of white painters. He didn't say he would exclusively collect white painters, he mentioned that he would buy Caucasian canvases in addition to the works of oppressed minorities. That's it. His crime was to say he would do what the Cancel Commandos claim to want to do: include all people regardless of race or whatever other labels these no-labels hypocrites stick on people.

I have to wonder if anyone has really looked into who the cancelers are. I wonder if their economic or cultural impact is really so strong that it's worth canning people over. I wonder and worry that corporations, who the cancelers claim are too powerful, aren't further empowering these fools by capitulating at the first peep from the outrage-du-jour crowd.

The more corporations and TV networks and individuals bend the knee, the harder it will ever be to stop these emotional terrorists. When will the line be drawn? Heaven forbid it be drawn at the wrong time, then you risk offending them again, or worse, offending a whole other group of wussies. Personnel decisions should never be made in such a way. How long until employees start fighting back? How long until corporations get sued by people they wrongfully terminated over some perceived slight?

This is not to say some of these people shouldn't be fired. Maybe all of them should be, but there should be a more deliberate process. Not just, "of course oh loudmouths of Twitter, please don't hurt us!"

Frankly, I have to question the judgement of a corporation that would bend so easily. How could they get away with putting the opinions of the lowest losers of our society ahead of the benefit of their employees and shareholders?

I am not saying people shouldn't be punished for the wrongs they commit and I am certainly not saying that there shouldn't be someone to point these things out. What I am saying is that people needn't be destroyed for a difference of opinion and corporations who enable such behavior may soon find it's too great a price to pay to make unhappy people not hate them. 

Adolfo Jimenez is an author, poet, and blogger. He lives in Hollywood, Florida. He has published nine books, which you can find here.

The views of the author are his own.