I haven't actually called to anyone to be fired either. If Netflix wants to give Chappelle millions of dollars or SNL responds to public sentiment and doesn't hire a guy, it doesn't make much difference to me. I was absolutely wrong about Smollet, I believed him and clearly shouldn't have.
What I do have a problem with though, is people calling others who are exercising their freedom of speech, and working within the confines of capitalism to make their voices heard, "fake outrage mobs" or "sjws." It's ok for people to have different opinions about things, and make those opinions heard, without describing them as "robots" or otherwise not acting out of their own free will or independent judgment.
Yeah, man. I shouldn't have called you a robot, so I apologize for that. I'm not trying to suppress your freedom of speech or anyone else's for that matter, but the online mob mentality is detrimental and fake (for the most part.)
People are very different in real life than their online persona. They tend to exaggerate and amply their feelings to be heard.
I don't know the SNL guy's name. I listened to his podcast. I cringed when he said what he said, but I knew it was out if ignorance and he wasn't, to the best that I know, wasn't malicious. Dude made a mistake. It just cost him, I'd imagine, his dream.
I imagine the guy is feeling pretty terrible. His tweet is deflating his feelings. The dude literally had his dreams come true and lost it. I don't care if he's white, black, purple, brown, I feel bad for him.
If he was a malicious, racist **** I'd be the first one to throw him under the bus.
I don't know. Maybe he is. I'd rather give the benefit of the doubt though rather than have the mentality of he must suffer the consequences.
Losing a job ****s with you. Losing your dream right after you reached it must be hard.
Hate culture sucks, man.