The internet didn’t invent the angry mob.
In the satirical Video Op-Ed above, cancel culture is reimagined with the help of a medieval mob. Pray thee, the video begs, is there any room left for transgression?
These days, it seems like everyone’s being canceled — from celebrities like Louis C.K. and Kanye West to ordinary high-schoolers. Some cancellations are temporary (we’re looking at you, Aziz Ansari). Some seem permanent (has anyone even seen R. Kelly?). But all are very public. And rarely is an apology good enough. Even more rare: redemption.
Last month, former President Barack Obama urged young people to leave cancel culture behind. “This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically ‘woke’ and all that stuff” he said, “you should get over that quickly.”
A mob quickly rose to the defense of cancel culture, sprinkled with a bit of “O.K. Boomer” judgment. For a brief moment, we wondered: Could even President Obama be canceled?
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Funny, the NYT is the key perpetrator…losers
Remarkably un-self-aware: the NYTimes parodying its own coverage of the Kavanaugh hearings
And the award for hypocritical irony goes to the New York Times again -again.
OMG something actually intelligent and witty from the NYT. Truly, we live in an age of wonders!
That is not set in the past it's set thirty years from now.
not enough non-whites and lgbtq+ in this video, we need to cancel NYT
has to be the most blatant case of theft of intellectual property theft i've ever seen. sure hope nobody rats the NYT out to john cleese and eric idol. that's a real nice paper you have there. it'd be a shame if something happened to it.
I wonder what poor film students and editing group will be fired from the NYT for this. If "Our anger makes us qualified" (0:59) doesn't define the modern Left (and thus the NYT itself), I don't know what does.
It's too spot on…almost as though they're acknowledging cancel culture in order to engage in it even further.
We need humans
We need humans
I love humans
I love humans
Is this an apology from the NYT for pushing cancel culture for years?
Brilliant, and depressingly accurate with today’s university students, the Twitterati, Hollyweird, and SJWs generally.
White people in middle age America.. Are you kidding me? Lol!!!
don’t cancel me for saying this but i would take the NYT a lot more serious if all of their pieces used this format
Considering the source, this is remarkable indeed.
Never apologize…the people that do this are not interested in the concepts of forgiveness or mercy.
I cancelled my New York Times subscription after it falsely reported that Iraq had WMDs.
Ironic that this came from the new york times.
NEW YORK TIMES JUST CAUGHT LYING ABOUT NAVY SEAL STORY……LOOK IT UP YOURSELF>>
I'm just shocked that this comes from NYT of all places.
Wait? The New York Times actually produced something valuable? And funny to boot!
During the Middle Ages, actors and performers WERE cancelled: they were considered heretical scum and shunned by, and forced to live separate from, polite society.
Who's getting fired by the NYT for this? lol
NYT is HYPOCRITICAL GARBAGE !! theve been behind tons of Right-Wing Youtube & facebook channels & profiles
You don't have to go all the way there, in Africa they still have witch hunts.
The Chutzpah!
I sense some Monty Python in here…
Jeremy Corbyn is the number one victim of 'cancel culture' in Britain, and on that the right and so-called left are a mob-in-common.
AIPAC invented 'cancel culture' on the ruins of McCarthyism, and it shows no sign of being under any criticism for its behaviour.
This is cancel culture in a nutshell
Ye Olde Mētoo
ganda louco, obrigado jorge
wtf
This is not past. This is happening right now, isn't it?
Exactly what Trump says… Witch hunt
I think a person's actions today, along with an appropriate apology, defines that persons' remorse (and social acceptability). As opposed to someone who apologizes but whose actions show they're not sorry at all.
What matters is acknowledging you committed a transgression and trying to be better.
ok but like change a few words around and its what actually happened, witch burnings where cancellation culture
this is just showing that its always been a thing
Didn’t we already know this
Funny video, yet very ironical, when you see NYT hiring proponents of the said culture.
This is bloody brilliant! If this was a movie i would soo watch it
As much as the acting in this video is corny and cringeworthy, the video itself really does hit the nail on the head and drive the point home, here.
Are there any women here today?