Another old satire, related to cancel culture

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"Playing the game" is exactly what I'm talking about. How did you miss that?

I didn't miss it. As long as you're taking 'cancel culture' seriously you're playing into the false narrative aka 'the game'

Acting like an as*hole has always had consequences.

The very nature of making an edgy remark, the fact that it is edgy, means that it could be taken badly. If you know that going in, you really don't get to act surprised if or when it gets taken badly. That was the risk of the act to begin with. You don't get to take your money back just cos you don't like the hand you were dealt in poker. Adult games win adult prizes, and face adult consequences. Welcome to responsibility. It's not supposed to taste good when it goes wrong.

What's the point of a rule if there's no consequence when it get's broken? Obey the rule! "No!" Well, he's got us, we can't do anything... Clearly you didn't MEAN for the edgy remark to be taken badly, just like a drunk driver didn't MEAN to kill everyone in the car they collided with. But if that's what happens, that's what happens. You still gotta deal with the consequences of that.

Not to mention, why do you NEED to make the edgy remark? Cos other people do? Look how it ends for them. Maybe there's better behavior to emulate, ya? You were TRYING to be edgy, you don't get to say "oops, I didn't mean that!". And if you didn't mean what you said, maybe you shouldn't say things you don't mean. How are people supposed to know what you DO mean and what you don't? Take your word for it? How do they know you mean it? Don't be disingenuous, it's just another form of dishonesty.

If you're making an edgy remark with no understanding of what you're saying, you're playing with fire, and probably shouldn't "experiment" with "edgy jokes". You don't get un-shot just cos you didn't know the gun was loaded. A knife still cuts, even if you have no understanding of what "sharp" is. "I didn't know!" doesn't cut it in the real world. That's a kid's excuse, and why acting "edgy" is a kid's game.

And for the record, plenty of people make edgy jokes that bomb, and do JUST FINE. More often than not, the "joke" in question wasn't their first strike, it's just the only strike that got publicity - or their response to the criticism of the "joke" made their position clear, and was the final nail. Very seldom do people get axed for a minor first-strike. And if you think what they did is minor, you may want to self-reflect a little bit. Occasionally people do overreact, and that's nothing new - it's just a lot more public now - but more often than not, people are getting at least some of what they deserve, as opposed to being blindly and irrevocably punished for the slightest most innocent of transgressions, as some people seem to think.

Most bigotry doesn't realize it's bigotry, cos it mistakenly believes that the bigotry they hold is merely "truth". To them, black people just ARE violent, mexicans just ARE lazy, and that's all there is to it. That's why they think everything is all about "PC language", and re-naming things to make them sound nicer and protect feelings - "oh, sorry, they're not "lazy", they're "economically disenfranchised", don't wanna offend them!". Failing to realize that they're not flipping lazy or violent, any more than anyone else, and that's just a narrative people buy into, cos that's the narrative america pushed for over a hundred years.

Memes aren't facts. Youtube videos aren't facts. Actions have consequences.

Also, anyone else catch the irony of them implying comedy is dead and cancel culture is rampant, WHILE making a comedic satire, that's entirely paid for using crowdsourcing? At least one of them IS a stand up comedian. So, comedy is dead, yet they're making off well by doing comedy, and you can't say anything offensive, even though they're clearly being provocative, and cancel culture is out of control, even though these videos are still publicly posted available and shareable several years later. Wow. Such canceled. So silenced. Much censored.

It's almost like a kafka trap with a troll comment as bait. Intentionally making a provocative statement in such a way that the legitimate negative response can be taken as proof of their premise.

This brings up an important question that is probably unanswerable but I will ask it anyway.

What is more, desensitizing the casual cartoon violence I grew up as a young child I grew with or the more graphic video game/social media material of today. The social media stuff has desensitized teens but children's material is less violent. That may not mean young children are not exposed to less they can get the graphic material from their parents' TV or the material they download on their computers without the parents noticing.