"Speaking Frankly: Cancel Culture" | Full Documentary

Cancel culture has destroyed careers and upended the lives of many who’ve made a controversial statement or committed a socially unacceptable act. It's sparked a debate about whether such incidents precipitate much-needed change or simply threaten freedom of expression. This CBS Reports documentary dives into these complex conversations, featuring stories of people who experienced being "canceled" - and those who have used it as a tool to hold others to account.
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[@Refilwe_Fifi]

It's interesting how Adam tried to use one of the tools of cancel culture on an innocent woman and ended up suffering the consequences of cancel culture itself. Anyone of us can easily suffer the same fate.

[@mattr4650]

Textbook irony

[@mtio2807]

Adam used his voice to stand up for the LGBTQ world and was attacked for it. That was the irony

[@richmrstonestone]

Sadly , he isn't redeemable. He's so arrogant and still doubles down on his hate of better people

[@richmrstonestone]

​@@mtio2807Not really. I'm gay and my friends and I know how wretched Democrats and " allies " are. I've never been oppressed for being gay and my life, and my gay friends, aren't bullied. Were grateful and successful. We don't need rainbows on crap and think gender debates are simply stupid. We are Christian and patriotic. We know that kids don't need to be educated on gender or sexual orientation. This man was low culture virtue signaling.

[@csm92459]

@@richmrstonestone Congrats--you are agreeing with Cancel Culture. "Better people" says it all. The right has absolutely no problem with "cancel culture" as long as they agree with it. You are nothing but a Christian bigot and hypocrite--a situation so predominant it is practically a cliche.

[@typhoon320i]

It is about POWER. It is not about enlightenment.

[@lunaumbra5179]

Power to who?

[@fulanichild3138]

@@lunaumbra5179 The power of the mob.

[@wordscontrolminds]

@@fulanichild3138 that’s democracy! I think we should use this newly inherited potential to open discussion, not ruin people’s lives.

[@wordscontrolminds]

It should be about opening conversation, not an either/or. We have democratised criticism through social media which is probably the most powerful democratic tool ever given. However, it should be used to question people’s actions, open discussion, not ruin people’s lives. There is a balance achievable.

[@fulanichild3138]

@@wordscontrolminds Mob justice is not democracy. It is vigilante-ism, which is illegal. A basic tenet of democracy is having a justice system that: 1. Informs the accused of the precise accusation. 2. Informs the accused who their accusers are. 3. Allows the accused and accusers to go before an impartial judge and tell their sides of the story. 4. Allows the judge make a decision of guilt or innocence based on the evidence. 5. Has codified sentencing guidelines so that someone cannot have their life destroyed for being rude. I agree, it's best to open conversations, but mob justice has taken hold of our society and, as this documentary shows, is glorified by some. It is dangerous.

[@aaronscarpa7469]

“Almost about the way a toddler would solve a problem.” 110% spot on.

[@katiempojer]

This especially when young Turks say it

[@thisisgreentext2147]

Well they are solving a child like problem.

[@TheSashapooch]

@Beau Biden I'm all for people like you putting your opinions out totally uninhibited! Keep talking, sweetie, then there'll be no misconception about the content of your character. Though your choice of avatar name tells us all we need to know, so lacking in class ...

[@msunderstanding3198]

We’ve all been there….

[@joemama6906]

Cancel Culture cancels forgiveness and redemption

[@paulh7311]

@nonya bidness So then should people tear your life apart for any of the things you've said in your personal life when you've had a bad day? Or are you going to say you've never said awful things and are just some Mother Theresa instead?

[@rich2583]

@nonya bidness do people apply this same logic to people like George Floyd, or Michael Brown?

[@puck6080]

@@rich2583 What did George Floyd sow

[@fulanichild3138]

@nonya bidness You're an "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" type. Do you wish to live in a world of blind toothless people?

[@ashtastical2622]

From what I've seen, cancel culture mainly surrounds people who have a history of not changing their bad behavior. Shane Dawson for example has done horrible things throughout his whole 10+ year career. In cases like that, 'cancelling' is justified. Some people never change so just forgiving isn't always the answer.

[@fleurdelamb661]

I makes me sad that the girl in this video was so proud of herself on her “accomplishment”

[@gpower9572]

She'll reap what she sows and wonder why this has happened to her.

[@Mykelcharles]

Right. Because that incident will fuel her power to an extent that she might end up accusing someone unjustly.

[@Walkingcedar2006]

Exactly, the very pint I just made in my own entry (though I had not noticed yours, and I'm sorry). Good point. Adam went on a hard journey to stand up for someone, and lost almost everything. All she did was gloat with Tucker Carlson. I guess she still has that path to walk.

[@Mykelcharles]

@@Walkingcedar2006 Oh, yeh! It seems to be a pattern with such individuals who 1) have not yet experienced life, especially its pains and/or 2) have experience challenges, but have become bitter and used such challenges for malice rather than merit.

[@deem2024]

Cancel culture is all fun until they turn on you. And as we’ve seen in the history of this phenomenon, they always turn on each other. She’ll have a mistake one day (as all humans do), and she’ll get a dose of her own medicine: karma

[@eerereps]

The black twitter girl is so proud of judging & getting strangers fired as if she's a total saint with that smirk on her face...

[@brianbatie6650]

The "strangers" she "gets fired" deserve it, as they harm other people with their actions. Good on her.

[@fulanichild3138]

@@brianbatie6650 People get all hopped up on self-righteousness and suddenly the punishment does not fit the crime.

[@eerereps]

​@@fulanichild3138 Yes exactly! and it's vigilantism really, because anyone gets to be judge, jury and executioner, which is not as fair as the law.

[@brianbatie6650]

@@fulanichild3138 Depends on the crime. There is no punishment too great for the racism and misogyny that is the subject of most public reaction. Loss of employment doesn't equal loss of life or other harms resulting from public advocacy of such.

[@fulanichild3138]

@@brianbatie6650 People who feel so passionately about this should stop wasting their time covertly canceling people and start advocating for codified penalties. Since you feel there is no punishment too great, advocate for the death penalty. In a free and open society, in a modern democracy, people know what the punishments are.

[@willoneil7616]

The teacher one is horrible because he did nothing wrong and was forced to retire because people felt like it

[@reprovedcandy]

He basically said "I don't want to be forced off campus. I want to work." And they said nah ggs to your career bro

[@garx1a]

Growing up as Gen Z, we're told from the day we access the internet that everything we say and do is permanently out there. People are now feeling the true ramifications of that statement. I don't agree with the total ostracization, but I also feel it's incredibly unlikely to change.

[@riripari2042]

Exactly. I took the be careful what you post on the internet rule to heart and never took any chances because people are ruthless and will tear into you if you post something they don't agree with.

[@garx1a]

@@riripari2042 Posting things that are disagreeable I think is perfectly fine, I post things that are abrasive on Fox News videos all the time, but having such an easy avenue to have your emotions seen by the world is now taking its toll on people. It's also not gonna change, so everyone needs to be more vigilant about what they say and do online.

[@0IIIIII]

You are too young to use KZbin

[@garx1a]

@@0IIIIII How would that be? For one, you don't know my age, and for two, Gen Z kids are starting to hit 20 and 21.

[@0IIIIII]

Malcolm Garcia ok zoomer

[@PhilOrth]

The hypocrisy and irony of Cenk whining about being canceled 😂😂😂

[@coreybacon9007]

the karma is not lost on any of us :)

[@thatmadguyoofs]

Yeah I was surprised I saw this lmao. I'm like isnt that dude who's part of the radical left always asking for violence and now he's canceled lmao! If you look at the young turks youtube they have 4.9m subs but they don't get pass 100k views

[@fulanichild3138]

I used to watch TYT but got disenchanted with their regularly canceling people. When Cenk got canceled I thought there would finally be an end to it, but no, within days they were back at it. I unsubscribed.

[@gwenrichard7507]

But he was a republican back than. What ever that means.

[@csm92459]

Congrats--you've gotten the hypocrisy award for enjoying the "cancellation" of someone who "cancelled" those who you identify with. Proving the right actually has no problem whatsoever with cancel culture--as long as it is directed where THEY want it.

[@ThatGotDaymBoogie]

Be careful when you're about to draw attention to yourself, you might receive a lot more than you bargained for.

[@xSkwintz]

Cancel social media. How about that? Deleting twitter and Facebook and especially tiktok would be a good start :)

[@treyshaffer7433]

Alexander Liptak it’s a different world man. Being a white guy from the south. Racism isn’t accepted publicly. And being a business owner. I’ve either refused my services or double charged blatantly racist individuals. And it doesn’t happen often which is another reason I say it’s a different world. Everyone sees racists for what they are. And you either associate yourself with them and ruin your name or you do the right thing and let them dig their own hole.

[@legslipsandlashes9831]

@@xanderliptak Either way, they're hiding.

[@nataliad4378]

A new social media will always come around. We need to change this mentality of immediatism as a society imo

[@HuggyBear420]

@@nataliad4378 people should have their lives ruined for being hateful. I support cancel culture. It teaches people to watch what they say.

[@nataliad4378]

@@xanderliptak I think immediacy of judgment is the problem. Like with the KZbinr James Charles for example, that was accused by his friend Tati of harassing straight men and other things. He lost half of his subscribers in one day, that was the time for him to post a video showing it wasn't true. But the damage was already done

[@waynerowe3062]

We need to draw a line somewhere between letting someone know that their behavior is unacceptable and destroying their lives and livelihood for making a bad choice. We also need to allow that people grow and change over time and not to demonize someone for things that they might have said or done ten or twenty years ago that weren’t a big deal at that time.

[@brianbatie6650]

If nothing is ever done as a consequence to harmful behavior, no one will ever feel need to grow and change. Sometimes you need to have a figurative head on a pike at the city gate to show what can happen. BTW, something that happened ten or twenty years ago was just as bad then as it is now, the difference being that those offended had no public voice back then.

[@waynerowe3062]

Brian Batie no, you don’t call people out for things they did or said in the distant past when they have shown that they have accepted that they were wrong. No one is unforgivable or irredeemable, and the extreme left doesn’t get to control the narrative as to who deserves to become unemployable because they had a moment of bad behavior.

[@brianbatie6650]

@@waynerowe3062 Today will soon enough become "the distant past". If something you say today harms someone today should that harm be ignored and dismissed when "today" becomes "the distant past"?

[@waynerowe3062]

Brian Batie if it isn’t dealt with in the present then yeah, you don’t get to bring up something that someone said or did years ago just because you’re offended by it now. No one has the right to not be offended by things that other people say or do, your feelings are not constitutionally protected, free speech is. No one should have the power to get you fired from your job just because they got offended by something you said or did long ago, especially if you’ve apologized and changed for the better. This whole cancel culture movement is the wrong way for the left to go, we should instead be able to point out someone’s bad behavior and expect them to change without having to destroy their lives in the process.

[@eagledice2008]

Racism is not a bad choice it’s your way of life and we’re going to call you out

[@theDanDeleon]

Can’t get cancelled if you’re not ON

[@ernestmac13]

I think cancel culture goes wrong when it doesn't seem out the truth, shuts down any two way dialog, and disproportionately reacts to what has taken place.

[@veledwin1]

There's cancel culture, and then there's accountability culture. It's a huge mistake to think they're the same thing.

[@fastronaut909]

What’s the difference?

[@daigomori7374]

Lmao

[@j.p.holiday8899]

@@fastronaut909 There's quite a difference. Of course an understanding of nuance isn't exactly y'all's strong suit.

[@dope4659]

@@j.p.holiday8899 not going to discuss intellect with a chocolate who says "y'all." Go mow my lawn

[@evansuarez5432]

@@j.p.holiday8899 yet you can’t even explain the “nuance”

[@12kenbutsuri]

On the Internet, everyone's a police.

[@AdamBarczynski]

not police, angry mob

[@TheBubbly1]

@@AdamBarczynski There's a difference?

[@AdamBarczynski]

@@TheBubbly1 usually yes

[@SamM-gl9zc]

@@TheBubbly1 - FYI, the ones burning, destroying & robbing other people's property are the mob. The ones trying to stop that from happening are the police.

[@riripari2042]

This is nothing new. Adults have been telling kids to be careful what they post for years because it will come back to bite you. Obviously some people thought that warning was bs and it came back to haunt them.

[@ernestmac13]

I think the guy who's brother in law came out made the mistake of directing anger at the Chick Fil E, employee rather than the company itself.

[@LosAngelesLaura]

Yes, that’s the one cancel culture story that always made me feel really bad but I suppose we do all make our decisions... I completely agree with you!!! She was very sweet!

[@bjm1275]

I know. As a retail employee, I have been berated & yelled at, but I don't hold it against the person because everybody has bad moments/behaviors that don't define them as a human being. And actually, that he came back the next day & apologized showed a good character.

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

I found 19:25 very upsetting. They accuse him seemingly without having thoroughly investigated what he said and why he said it. And worse yet, they make accusations but don't allow him speak in his own defence. He tries to speak and they talk over him, yelling, screaming and not listening. This is very frightening. "And there's no way for people to reason collectively if they can't challenge each other."

[@tb1534]

The woman who focused on getting Adam Rappaport fired said it herself. She was fueled by emotion. These cancel people cannot handle reasoning or critical thinking. we all need to stand up to these mobs, and say "SO WHAT IF YOUR OFFENDED BY WHAT SOMEONE DID IN THEIR PAST GROW UP AND GET OVER IT!!!!!

[@enginerdy]

All the stuff about the white staff being treated better (money wise) was never refuted. That wasn't in the past.

[@fulanichild3138]

You're right, people need to stand up to the mobs. It is really disappointing that the gay community did not do this after the Chik Fil A incident. The guy stood up for the gay community and they appear to have abandoned him. Someone could have offered him a job, for god's sake!

[@neala9305]

Fulani Child that man went to somebody job to do that he deserves wat he got. How would u feel If I come to your job and did wat he did

[@danielmanahan692]

@@fulanichild3138 why would sjw do anything for him. He was virtue signaling like an idiot. All sjw virtue signal. He was trying to cancel and got canceled.

[@tb1534]

Correct you do have a choice on who you contribute to and how you spend your money. Just as you have a choice on how you react to something. The point is this man was shamed over a photo at a party years ago. Looking back with the benefit of maturity and the changing times, he should not have done it. But to be called out like that and raked over the cools for it it is wrong. The problem with cancel culture is they don't allow for the fact that people err and they can change. That was my point. Why would I as a human being do that to someone when I am just as flawed as everyone else. The people screeching the loudest on social media don't get that that they too are flawed. So look at your own failings first before you start throwing stones.

[@wrmonahan30]

Seeing Cenk on here disapproving of cancel culture is so ironic. He is a canceling king. TYT is also on a mission to cancel someone and also defends it. The fact that he is complaining that it happened to him is so hypocritical and such a double standard.

[@lamisere8337]

No it isn't. There is a difference. There is the cancel culture that is rooted in jealousy and revenge and there's the cancel culture that is rooted in justice and accountability. Cenk faced the former. That is evident with the manner in which those people who started it went about it; by digging up old posts and falsely claiming those views were representative of who was at the time he was running for office. There was a rush to judgement, even though it was obvious he was making those comments in jest.

[@derekhunter7632]

Lol

[@lamisere8337]

@Carlos Rodriguez What do you mean by authoritarian cultures?

[@rocketpropelled]

@@lamisere8337 You can carry water for Cenk all you want. Who gets to decide what's righteous and what's not? Cenk thought he could decide but now whines when others do it to him. Just another short sighted hypocrite.

[@djcherchezlafemme]

he's best friends with jimmy kimmel

[@ashmusic621]

Best way to avoid "Cancel Culture" is not being on social media. Life can be so good and stress free without social media & caring about politics.

[@herooflight7931]

1000% agreed

[@coreybridges762]

havent touched it since myspace lol... i have real friends and we actually speak to each other ....no txt sh#t... its amazing...txts can be taken out of context by the way someone reads it

[@nelsonvazquez8104]

That is sooooo fudging hundred percent true I learned that recently what is get your life together focus on your a career a good career and stay off social media

[@rockvilleraven]

Rule 1: Don’t post anything on social media if you can’t handle the consequences.

[@PhilaVeratatis31415]

“I’m not sure someone’s life should be defined by 60 seconds of poor judgement.” That’s the guy she was calling the police on. Bravo sir, bravo.

[@YeahHeSaidit]

He set us back..... the cops could have showed up to blow his brains out.... Now other white women will continue hoping someone will have compassion for them.... Which it has been continuing

[@zl1gee]

Sounds like your going through what ex felons go through.....

[@evengolf3888]

Expect being rude to a fast food worker isn’t the same as murdering someone

[@fantasticfaith1106]

@@evengolf3888 there are much less severe crimes that can ruin your life... stupid comparison

[@quinnieschannel8003]

Exactly what went through my mind. These folks now have to figure out how to have their own business whether that be being a landlord or owning a lawn maintenance business or become a KZbinr etc. It's now that much harder to make a living it will take more creativity.

[@dope4659]

@@fantasticfaith1106 ok, then being rude to someone isn't equivalent to being a criminal. At all. Only a chocolate would make that comparison.

[@dope4659]

@@quinnieschannel8003 sounds a lot like a broke person loving that someone whose more intellectual and successful then them is unfairly struggling over a soft persons "feelings."

[@lamisere8337]

Tammie Teclemariam has no business ruining lives and humiliating people and then calling that justice. People like her are frightening because they think nothing of rushing to judgement and using the resulting outcry to ruin someone's life and not stopping even for a second to consider the possibility they are unjustly harming their targets. To her, the fact the CEO was white and employee complaints were all she needed to decide the CEO was a "bad guy" who needed to be fired. Nearly every major company the world over has its critics and many of those critics are simply bitter, angry people who interpret things their way. It is INCREDIBLY irresponsible to take every employee's word as irrefutable gospel and make solid claims that haven't been verified over issues that are by their very nature highly open to interpretation! Racism and inequality are perfect examples of that. There will be employees who feel they are treated unequally and there will be employees who will claim there is a toxic culture at their workplace when the source of that toxicity is actually them! Cancel culture's capacity for justice then becomes highly dependent on those who initiate it. At one point, Ms. Teclemariam reveals her mission statement includes taking down people who hog up positions of power. There is no mention of taking down corrupt and evil people because that isn't her main goal. Her goal is to remove white people from leadership roles because they are white. Having dressed up as a Puerto Rican is not even an issue on its own, but it is a powerful issue when it comes to taking down a white guy from a position of power. She didn't say anything about race being a factor in her cancelling of individuals but it was definitely alluded to. This is why cancel culture must be cancelled unless you're willing to put the lives of others, as well as your own, possibly in the hands of people with an agenda rooted in evil. Most decent people on their own wouldn't feel at peace with ruining someone's life using the tactics used in cancel culture but in a group it is far easier because any feelings of guilt and remorse are distributed and eventually diluted.

[@zl1gee]

Lol your crying about a ceo 🤣

[@lamisere8337]

@@zl1gee Last time I checked the CEO was a human being worthy of as much respect and consideration as you and I.

[@khismet]

This read like: Blah blah blah, blahs blah blah and bladdity blah blah blah. Head spinning, pious hypocrisy. Seems to me, you're actually babbling about how you don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot. Oh well. You may want to have a conversation with the Universe about Karma.

[@lamisere8337]

@@khismet You may want to stop having conversations and pick up a book because some reading comprehension remediation is definitely in order for you.

[@juratory8876]

@@zl1gee Right? Like imagine simping for someone that hoards too much wealth 🤣

[@bonanderson9398]

When it's a perspective difference that gets mobbed, that's a trickier problem. Mobs like to see black and white, but conversing with another person teaches you that everyone has had life experience that has informed their perspective. Sometimes they are not wrong. Sometimes they are not misinformed. Sometimes they are. Conversations give us feedback about the reality of others' lived experience.

[@CrissyLynnB]

"Fueled by emotion", perfectly said, so many times it is not fueled by facts. I would hate to have my life defined by one moment of it, from 10, 20, or even 1-5 years ago. I am not the same person I was last week....life experiences and exposure to information has evolved the way I see things. I do believe that there has been some good in calling out bad behavior that is still going on and seeing it brought to light. My issue is the amount of time people spend digging into someone's past to find something to drag them with and try to destroy them. Cancel culture is going to backfire. Social media has become a monster and unfortunately created monsters.

[@gabrielquesnot7840]

Truer words were never spoken!👏👏👏👏

[@kevinarzola4781]

We need to start canceling the cancelers

[@synecdoche8783]

then you're still cancelling

[@kevinarzola4781]

Synecdoche Not really because they have nothing to cancel

[@fulanichild3138]

@@synecdoche8783 They need a taste of their own medicine.

[@accaricuvell8624]

Ken Baker Yeah but they weren’t dumb enough to do it on camera.

[@riripari2042]

Adults have been telling kids for years to be careful what you post because it can come back to bite you. Obviously many haven't learned that lesson. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@sensinate4105]

no thats the thing, they are forced to believe what you think is "right" and for that they harassed

[@wrmonahan30]

Criticizing or holding people accountable for certain things they say is different than cancel culture. Someone shouldn't be fired from their job or someone forced to apologize or removed and banned from social media for such minor things. Primarily digging up stuff from people's past is the worst. People mature and become better people for the most part. KZbin for example has banned or demonetized numerous creators for something that they uploaded in the past when at the time the TOS made these uploads ok. Then they changed their TOS to nothing short of complete censorship and they search creators past uploads and ban or demonetize them on the grounds of the current TOS. This is just wrong on so many levels.

[@paulh7311]

How does that apply if somebody records you? If you're not some socialite or "influencer" and you have a normal off-day, which somebody then records and posts that is something else entirely.

[@ebonysmith8513]

This is why we need a "counsel" culture vs. Cancel. Some people are just not knowledgeable about some things. We can certainly sit down and educate the other person as to why their statement or action hurt the people as a whole. Hold them accountable, but also educate. People make mistakes and misspeak, and we all have done some things we regret or thought we could've done better

[@megans.7152]

This. Thank you so much.

[@jayDee92133]

Idk if I would be willing to talk to a white person that just called me the n-word, I don't think I'm at that level yet.

[@masoncaldwell872]

@@megans.7152 hahahaha at least a re education camp right?

[@stylz1]

This is my second CBS doc tonight and it's refreshing to have such well balanced perspectives. Keep up the good work.

[@bluebellrose8]

I learned awhile ago to just stay silent at all times. It's not worth airing an opinion. It's gotten to the point where I don't trust the space around me. Anyone can film you and upload it. I look forward to the day when this "phase" passes us by.

[@cringycontent1391]

There's a difference between calling someone out for something they did yesterday, and ruining someone for a mistake they made 20 years ago. I don't think many people understand that. I don't agree with cancel culture, but I also understand that people need to face the consequences of their actions. A CEO who is visibly racist today should resign or be removed, but a comedian who made a joke, whether it was yesterday or 10 years ago, should not be "cancelled" for that joke. It is literally his job to make jokes.

[@Gwmcmi02]

who gets to define or determine when a behavior is considered racist? We live in a society that calls standardized tests, showing up on time, and math racist. There were greater standards utilized for determining someone to be a witch in 1692 Salem than for what gets labeled as racist today.

[@zioncommand]

Offended people: You offended me! Me: Good. Offended people: Canceled. Me: *Unaffected*

[@zioncommand]

@@xanderliptak Exactly, and no one cares about what you think either. ;)

[@ahhwe-any7434]

Im offended that i hafta be forced to wear a mask in some places. There, i said it. Phew i feel better about myself. _pats myself on the back_ Im offended by everything 😑😤. Unless you try to intentionally offend me, then im less offended bc thats just the sh i do

[@bxknowledge4803]

Isnt it a bit creepy how large corporations can basically "unperson" you for having said things which are totally legal and constitutionally protected. This guy lost his ability to work, others have even lost the ability to open bank accounts or fly on planes because some people found thier views or words objectionable. And with no due process at all. Very Orwellian

[@thefloridamanofytcomments5264]

Drive-thru Guy and Central Park Karen should start a PR firm that focuses on helping people financially restructure after being cancelled.

[@shaleiad]

What the world is waking up to in our relatively new age of Internet is that digital life is real life. So cancelling someone can be a mob experience and quite traumatic. People have social power on the internet by their words and buying practices, you're not an anonymous person on the Internet if part of your life is lived and experienced there.

[@Neimm]

I’ve made countless mistakes as a person too. I give room for change.

[@jackieredinger3238]

With the man, Adam, who shot the video of the KFC drive-through, people who haven’t worked a customer service job don’t realize how common that kind of interaction can be. It comes from individuals who feel entitled to bully and harass service workers when if they really do feel strongly, should be reaching out to the real higher-ups in a corporation. Adam didn’t deserve the full response that he received but that video did come from an amazing sense of entitlement which resulted in an ‘easy’ outlash on someone who didn’t actually have company standing and couldn’t defend themselves or really respond. He didn’t actually want to make any change or else he would have reached out to the people that can actually make changes in the company and wouldn’t have verbally attacked and criticized a minimum wage worker.

[@charlesdavis545]

Chik fi let

[@xjcrossx]

The problem is that the most vocal people are the most emotional and it only takes a few of those people to make it seem like the incident is causing a much bigger uproar than it actually is.

[@nataliad4378]

This reminds me of Black Mirror's episode "nosedive". Everyone is scared to speak their minds

[@sebp400]

a social panopticon... it's scary because we're all part of it..

[@BanJ0e82]

The bald headed lady lost me when she said, “I think cancel culture can be effective.”

[@JL_Lux]

So it’s never been effective? even with all those Karen’s?

[@dudeup1]

One key variable in this entire video is Social Media. We've had it for less than 20 years and it's virtually crippled our society yet also been an opportunity generator for others.

[@bonanderson9398]

This is an excellent documentary. Balanced and insightful. It represents perspectives from many directions.

[@nicholasca6863]

I can’t help but think CBS made this video to help Ellen out.

[@BurnedJello]

I was thinking the same damn thing. Oh nowwww it's a problem, CBS?

[@Maria.9094]

Good point. She makes them a shitload of money 💰

[@sethwatters99]

Same although this is intresting

[@sethwatters99]

@Yeshua Something the talk show host that might get her show canceled because of how she really treated her guest

[@psyclotronxx3083]

They're eating their own

[@girlyprincess1883]

How do people in these comments not see the difference between dressing up as a celebrity and dressing up as an ethnicity?? The didn’t go as J Lo and Marc Anthony they went as ‘Puerto Ricans’... Wtheck is that?? What’s with the obsession of trying to stereotype a whole ethnic group into one usually bad costume? It’s demented.

[@thenightmare7635]

This whole cancel culture thing has gotten worse. It's never okay to define and ostracize someone for his/her past. We all do mistakes!

[@user-ej4li1lt3d]

All these people who were fired should have sued for wrongful termination and discrimination

[@lashropa]

This was really really well done. I'm impressed, CBS. Thanks.

[@Crystalthomas27]

This is really scary cause it can literally happen to anyone at all. People have learned from these things and do better no reason to ruin their whole one life.

[@EricMOTOWN]

Just here to say Brett Weinstein is a genius. Check out his podcast sometime.

[@jawnkandy]

Not genius enough to know his Toupee is insanely obvious 😂😂

[@EricMOTOWN]

@@jawnkandy don't say things like that about him 😂

[@mistertommy]

He rules

[@SomethingSomethingg]

I am so grateful. I never went to college because not only am I not in any student debt but I also didn't want to associate myself with people like this.

[@Pecan3.14]

People thought I was crazy over 20 years ago as a teen when I refused to have my picture taken or be video taped. I have never had a Twitter account and I have a Facebook page just to talk to some people through messenger that don't want to pay for cell service. I saw this coming from a mile away.

[@senchamacrae50]

She heard stories. Stories she used to destroy some one's career.

[@JL_Lux]

So don’t believe victims? Hmm

[@fc7307]

@@JL_Lux Evidence first before believing. Anyone can make up stories so receipts must be presented.

[@JL_Lux]

@@fc7307 receipts aren’t always there. Sometimes it’s one’s word vs the other person. But this ended up being true. With some investigation. She found enough evidence and a bunch of people with similar experiences

[@islandbee]

I have never had bad service at Chik Fil A.

[@islandbee]

@TrashPanda Raccoon - Chik Fil A itself, or the CEO? Either way, that guy was venting out his frustrations to a worker who may not have shared those same feelings. Chik Fil A is a good business. Its employees are trained well and put out a quality product for being fast food.

[@amandaallen5038]

I get taking a moral stance on a company, I do it with Chick-fil-a and Hobby Lobby. I don't harass employees, I just don't spend my money, there.

[@islandbee]

@@amandaallen5038 - And that's totally fine. Whenever you force a business to reflect your political and religious beliefs, you have to ask yourself if you yourself would tolerate being forceably endoctrinated into some other political and religious beliefs that you oppose. 🤔

[@amandaallen5038]

@@islandbee the company is not entitled to my money. I am not saying Chick-fil-A and companies with similar views can't have them, I just don't have to passively support their views by spending money at their company that they will then take and use (in part if not in whole) to proliferate the ideology I disagree with. I can't do that, I don't care how tasty the chicken sandwich is. I will happily eat moor cows to support people being able to have the same rights/protections as hetro couples. I will use a sub quality bead to keep from shopping at Hobby Lobby because I won't passively support a company who allows the religion of the majority share holder to impose restrictions on the medical care of their female employees, by refusing to pay for medically necessary treatment that should be included in the medical insurance the company provides as a part of the compensation package for the employment. I'm not going to cancel them, I just don't shop there, and tend to keep really surface level relationships with the people in my life who do.

[@islandbee]

@@amandaallen5038 - The point I was making is that customers should not have the right to force a business to conform to their ideologies. Just like that gay couple who were demanding a bakery to design and bake a cake that goes against their religious beliefs. This is where the customers were trying to violate a private entity's First Amendment right to satisy their own personal religious beliefs. Do you follow?

[@paramoreparks9960]

Cancel Culture is ridiculous. People's lives shouldn't be ruined for something that can be forgiven or discussed and learned from. It will get dangerous before it gets better.

[@tillycgreen5764]

If Adam was a conservative and got fired, nobody would give a crap and the media would make it sound like he deserves it.

[@theaman1786]

Am I the only one who thinks Adam Smith didn't say anything that bad? I mean, often when talking about ideological subjects I hold strong beliefs on, I too say stuff like that (though have never been that dogmatic around strangers). Am I normal?

[@jerelle6283]

Cancel culture just assume people don't change. It's like getting back at the kid who said women are dumb in 3rd grade to stop him from graduating this year

[@kevinperez3744]

I feel like going to chick-fil-a now.

[@shawmut8595]

Really. I don,t have sympathy for that guy.

[@edpayne29]

Great chicken sandwich

[@Investigativebean]

Cancel culture is not synonymous with doxxing. Procuring, and utilizing someone’s personal information to ruin their real lives is not cancel culture. That is harassment. That is illegal. Cancelling someone means deplatforming them, of knocking them off of their soapbox.

[@SamM-gl9zc]

Our generation wants some Great Cause to fight for so bad they're willing to tear everything down to get it. Spoiled brats who have had easy lives simply because they were born here, that don't understand just how good we have it. The Truly sad part is the rest of us letting it happen.

[@sportdoge1]

@@xanderliptak exactly they spoiled

[@beentheredonethatoriginals5673]

@@xanderliptak perhaps you're not capable at your age to fully understand, but every generation has a number of issues they can point to and claim how much of a victim they are. Millennials are not all the same. Just like every other generation they have a full spectrum of motivation, education and opportunity that will morph into a similarly diverse social fabric just as all the generations before them. Rich, poor, leaders, followers, addicts, victims, heroes. Millennials are not a monolith just as other generations haven't been.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Agree 100%. They want a cause & don’t mind creating a villain so that they can document themselves on social media virtue signaling without looking deeper into the situation. Although Brett Weinstein was a victim of cancel culture he did nothing wrong like some of the others in the video. His situation wasn’t w/lots of social media users cancelling him, it was just a smaller group of ppl w/in the student body, some of which took extreme measures. Weinstein was actually a voice of reason. You may have already seen this but if you haven’t you will probably really like the 3 part video series filmed w/Weinstein & his wife & friends, on campus & in their home, while all of it was happening: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHmViJiNnMiGg80

[@SamM-gl9zc]

@@xanderliptak - That response earns you 3 victim points. How many do you have saved up? Right now they're just social currency, but maybe our generation can figure out a way to make them Actual currency. Yeah it kind of seemed like the other response to you would have made more sense aimed at me. I guess I Must include "NOT ALL" with any comment. We used to understand that when people spoke they didn't mean every last one of a thing, unless they actually said so. I don't know why we don't get it anymore. Anyway, a large part of the economic issues you listed can be attributed to our government taxing us way beyond what they were ever meant to as well as having Everything made in China. That's a yuge reason we voted for the president - these issues were something he focused on. Bigly. Even if I agreed with you, the answer to our problems wouldn't be canceling anybody who disagrees. Or giving more of our money and more power to the government, which GenZ & Millennials seem hellbent on doing.

[@SamM-gl9zc]

@@xanderliptak - I suppose it's only natural that people who grew up having their parents ask them "please" about everything and getting the same trophy for coming in last as the person who worked hard enough to be first are gonna grow up to be whiners who have no respect for those who've come before them and expect everything to always be fair & equal, outside factors be damned. We *do* have our issues. How could we not? It'sthe nature of humanity... now, since we have it so hard, which generation in our past would you switch problems with?

[@wallstreets7357]

"this person is bad" and im good!!! im the hero!!!

[@robinfox4440]

It's nice that they left in a proud proponent and practitioner of cancel culture in this. She feels fully justified in her actions, but she's a horrible and vile bully.

[@Saukingalpha]

Cancel culture is more to do with media & entertainment

[@martysweet3098]

Wow! These stories are heartrending to hear, and the coverage is compelling. About 5 years behind Jon Ronson's Ted Talk on this very subject. But the people Jon felt compelled to write about weren't celebrities or polticos.

[@emilyaubert20]

OMG I JUST WROTE A PAPER ON THIS AND HANDED IT IN! If only I saw this yesterday lmao

[@jssandler]

I feel bad for the editor of "Bon Appetite". You see what happened there... without any context around the Halloween photo, he was judged (he was treated prejudicially) under the assumption that he meant ill or had malicious intent. "Cancel culture" does society and individuals a grave injustice: it robs both parties (those who are hurt and those who with or without intent) may have caused hurt - it robs from them the ability to communicate and reconcile. Difficult conversations are ... difficult. If you "cancel" someone, you do yourself the harm of not learning how to communicate about complicated situations. You also prejudge that person. For the editor of Bon Appetite, in the picture I saw here, it did not look like "brown face" to me. He had a penciled in mustache. So what? Furthermore, we don't know the context. Maybe his Puerto Rican friend asked him to dress like that for a themed party. Maybe many other Puerto Ricans that night saw him at the party and were not offended or actually joined in the fun. Maybe some Puerto Ricans at the party dressed like white suburbanites. We don't know the full story. Instead, one was made up that the editor was 100% a bad person. The current GenZ or Millennial generation is hyper sensitive I believe. We should understand other's intent and the surrounding circumstances before casting collective judgement. And we should relax a bit more around topics of race and gender. Not everything is intended with malice. I suspect most of the time people don't mean ill, so let's just relax, keep lines of communication open even with those we disagree, and look at things through a positive lens.

[@forevertrill4449]

You are one of those people who would wear black face for Halloween and think there is no problem... 🙄🙄... you don’t dress up as another race for Halloween...

[@adridelarosaj]

So good. Well made and well balanced. So important.

[@shayslay3416]

How is it ok to come after a celebrity but not after a "private citizen" ??? Are they both not people?! She lost me right there. If you say something racist it shouldn't matter who you are because EVERYONE has bad days, not just private citizens. A celebrity calling me a racial slur is holds the same weight as a private citizen calling me a racial slur.

[@justice_k6440]

I really enjoyed this video. Finally...cancel culture is being discussed in a critical manner. No matter what people said or did...disagreements is mature and a way of life. I think employers shouldn’t jeopardize people’s jobs because of social media. I think that is the “power” behind cancel culture, and I think employers need to be more forgiving of their employees. Social media will be inevitably toxic...but without the power of corporations and government officials, it won’t be able to totally obliterate people’s career. I am hoping cancel culture will finally be regulated on the internet...somehow

[@ns81]

Whoa! Bravo CBS 💪💪. Both for reporting on this and for not falling into the Dave Rubin/Stephen crowder/Ben Shapiro reactionary cliches.

[@bonanderson9398]

Canceling while blockading re-entry is unjust. It is cruelty.

[@amargad69]

Cancel culture advocates make me sick!

[@Joseiaddict]

Alexander Liptak The majority of victims aren’t racist tho. Even if most of them were racist, I would take the racist spewing his filth to no one listening over the angry mob that would surround them and destroy just not their life but even the lives of people around them sometimes. There have been CHILDREN who have said stupid things and have been cancelled and guess what happened? Their school continued to get bomb and shooting threats all the time. That is bad for a school to get. We aren’t even going to mention the going 30 years back into someone’s past to pick out some mistake they did and pretend like someone can’t change in 30 years.

[@Joseiaddict]

Alexander Liptak You know what cancel means in this conversation. We are literally talking about “Cancel” culture. For those children, Look at Skai Jackson’s Twitter for example. She doxxed two twelve year olds because they posted a meme that had the n-word as a joke. She sent her fan base after children and their school was also affected by it. She also falsely sent people after the wrong person. You probably won’t find the tweets now cause she deleted them but there were channels that covered those stories. For how toxic cancel culture can be, have you not seen the protests that were going on about statues(not confederate statues, I understand taking them down and putting in museums or something) People have literally wanted to take down statues of the founding fathers. That is pretty much cancelling someone who is dead. They did own slaves but you can’t apply our morals of today to those generations. They lived in a different time with different morals. For those numbers, do you know what it means to be truly racist? A racist is someone who actually truly believes that they are superior to someone else based on race or skin color(any race can be racist). Many of these people who are recorded and go viral are most likely not truly racist. They most likely made a stupid decision while being emotional and said something that they didn’t mean. I have told my sister before in arguments “You family hates you” but do I really mean it? No, I said it to be hurtful cause we were angry with each other. These people do the same thing. If they commit crimes in the process of having an emotional reaction, I’m all for slapping them with the law book. By you calling me Alex Jones, I see that you haven’t really watched Alex Jones. I don’t watch him cause his ideas are ridiculous but to call me him just cause I’m saying some Right leaning ideas shows how well you treat someone else in a civil discourse. Btw I’m a Moderate that Leans Right a bit.

[@Joseiaddict]

@@xanderliptak The reason I brought up the statue thing is that by taking down those statues, people are ignoring all of the good things that those people did. I don't know about you but I like my Freedom of Speech and other rights which allow us to have this discussion in the first place which those people immortalized in those statues drafted and signed the document that prevents government from infringing on those rights. Those people did unacceptable things in today's standards but by taking them down, you ignore all the good they did and those statues weren't erected to honor their now unacceptable acts, it was to honor the good ones. I also don't get why you insist to do the name calling. It doesn't help your case and it just looks childish. Name calling has no place in civil discussion and I think we can all agree to that. Onto the next thing, Cancel Culture itself has many similarities with Harassment, and they usually happen together. Do you not consider going into someones distant past with INTENTIONS of ruining their careers as harassment? How about calling that person's work to purposefully get them fired or in the case with the two children, their schools. Also that was a classic case of cancel culture. It would of just been just regular old harassment if Skai herself was doing it but what did she do, she sent her Hundreds of Thousands of followers to track down information about them so that she could repost it and give it more attention. That is the difference between regular old harassment and Cancel Culture. CC could really be considered an extension of harassment where a large number of people join in and ruin a person's life. Usually harassment doesn't end in a loss of career or livelihood but CC does. About the link thing, you have a perfect link above you, it's the video you are watching and commenting on. I could also use the same card on you and say "Where are you getting the numbers at that most people who do get cancelled are racist?" I'll just let you know that I'm nowhere near the only person that holds these beliefs and there are probably people better at arguing this stance than i am cause I usually don't debate about these types of things. You can call me Alex Jones for all you care cause I don't really care. I know myself that I don't agree with him and there really isn't any need to prove that to someone over the internet. I'm happy at least that we could have a mostly civil discussion unlike many people on both sides of the aisle who are closed to this type of discussion. Thank You for that and this is weird to say to someone over the internet lol but have a good day :). PS I might edit this later if I remember anything I have left out or might just reply with a whole new comment.

[@theangryquad3127]

Still no coverage about the 5yr old white boy murdered by the 25yr black neighbor ? Imagine if the roll was reversed?

[@theangryquad3127]

@Darren Scott Bingo! nuthin to see here..

[@theangryquad3127]

@@MangoSkinner What a 45sec mention at 1145PM? Fox is the only station that did an actual report on it.......

[@theangryquad3127]

@Khari Mcfadden Your referring to who?

[@theangryquad3127]

@Khari Mcfadden Your referring to who?

[@theangryquad3127]

@@MangoSkinner FOX, Yes! CNN? I found nothing. send me the 22 sec link...........Only local media and thats short......

[@tabris5304]

Depends on what they were "canceled" for how long ago the action took place, and how consistent the behavior was, I think.

[@gregcooks9]

Good subject matter, i could watch this all day. Very interesting.

[@maseffa7611]

This is a great discussion guys.

[@fe5018]

Can only condemn the choice of intro. That first speaker was a god awful choice. Doesn't make it seem like it's going to be a remotely nuanced or sophisticated look at the issue.

[@karinr5168]

time?

[@fe5018]

@@karinr5168 literally the first person to speak, so 00:00 ?? Honestly how she's talkin' there would be more likely to make me come down on the side of Cancel Culture.

[@treyarline9999]

This is a very broad issue and can't be put together in a 20 min clip. Nice try but try again.

[@johnantal2014]

Threatening a company for someone's idiotic mistake is not ok at all. We are suppose to be a forgiving nation.

[@puck6080]

I hate this idea of cancel culture being a societal monster. All it is is millions of people saying that what you did isn't right therefore we will no longer consume anything with you in it. Who ever is being canceled made a choice and now I am.

[@AIWASP]

If you’re unwilling to control your emotions and actions that follow you will be subject to an incredible injustice.

[@elsugar9618]

"I decided I wanted to ruin someones life, because I'm a miserable, disgusting human. So I did, and I will do it again"

[@KIMjB72]

Well y'all have done it to black ppl for centuries now that its happening to white ppl now y'all made

[@KimSearch865]

Soo... that CEO at Bon Apetit was wrong for THAT job (according to her), BUT is he wrong for every job?? She’s too smug about taking him down. It seems she has all the power now... and it’s definitely going to her head.

[@korymillett7086]

Back in the olden days before cancel culture many people have said or committed offensive things and have gotten away with it. Now people have to take responsibility for their actions. Why is that so wrong?

[@LegalAutomation]

I support BLM, but cancel culture and the BLM movement have become synonymous.

[@realplayer54]

14:06 It always baffles me when they're either going to fire you or not give you the job anyway but they tell you what you "should" have told them. I worked for you 2 weeks and got a paycheck out of it so apparently I did better to NOT tell you lol.

[@MarioNintendoh]

Amazing documentary.

[@cindland]

Since when is Puerto Rican a RACE? Irony for Smith is he didn’t say anything derogatory to the drive through girl. He was just badgering her and it was dumb. I can’t understand how he got death threats. I mean how did all those people track him down to his company? Who has that kind of time?

[@Seivad-zs3hx]

I feel bad for the Chic fil a guy. I can see it came from a good place but the way he delivered it wasn’t the best and the fact that he posted it didn’t help. I don’t think his life should be ruined because of this one mistake. I hope he finds another job.

[@michaelreinmund4958]

Frankly surprised that CBS would do something like this

[@wil404]

The internet has people thinkin they're bulletproof. Who you are and what you do online is as a part of who you are as who you are and what you do face to face.

[@syntaxed2]

So we need some kind of line between calling out bad behaviour and utterly destroying that person?

[@carinwiseman4309]

An excellent conversation that has been needed.

[@iwanttoseemrshow]

This is a leviathan that will ultimately consume itself.

[@surfsessions100]

Or all of us

[@Unheardfrog69]

@@surfsessions100 nah just the mob

[@surfsessions100]

@@Unheardfrog69 did u watch the video?

[@junglecat_rant]

'Failing to reason'. I'd say it's the most important sentence in this documentary.

[@playthatagainbruh394]

Create a playlist so we can sub to it

[@jasonspades5628]

Most people dont deserve these type of public punishments. But, when you are cruel to someone, its hard to feel bad for you.

[@mariawoo843]

"Cancel culture" is the peoples power to negotiate in a free society and market. If a company or person does something or sells something that hurts anyone or others don't like, we have the right to protest and boicott. But, actions taken on false claims (knowingly or by willful ignorance) just to slander, harass and hurt someone or a company, is not a right. That ought to be criminal, because it can really cause damage far beyond ie a mugging or robbery might do.

[@theangryquad3127]

Still no coverage about the 5yr old white boy murdered by the 25yr black neighbor ? Imagine if the roll was reversed?

[@theangryquad3127]

@@marcoa.2585 Do you know about it?

[@iamstupidteddy]

great show CBSN!!

[@mwv25]

Some of the cancel culture stuff is wrong. I think going back 15-20 years into someone’s past. And they are judged like it’s current is very wrong.

[@topgrain]

It depends on whether what is stored back then can be ignored. Sine monsters need to be canceled.

[@donnyreiss1180]

i couldn’t agree more times were different