Comedian Jon Lovitz tears into cancel culture, compares it to McCarthyism
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Mccarthy was right
Is there anything more infuriating than an enlightened centrist begging all of the commies in government, media, and academia not to behave like McCarthy?
He literally never succeeded in any investigation, unlike the actual commie hunters with high success rates and whom he discredited by association.
What about innocent until proven guilty?
Applied to all of his so-called "victims", because he always failed to prove otherwise.
The Tailgunner Joe was infinitely less successful than even Mueller, who had a similarly undeserved fan following for a while but at least had someone sent to jail even in just the Trump case.
McCarthy then literally drunk himself to death (a very Irish end), becoming the only real "victim of McCarthy".
The "worst" parts of mcCarthyism were the institutions firing people for being potentially communist. Basically exactly what is happening today, except the threat of communism was and is very real, it's not a pretend boogeyman.
It's still wrong though. Innocent until proven should be for everyone regardless if the threat is real or not.
Guess now that it may effect him he actually cares? Bunch of cowards these comedians are, never speaking out until it is too late.
Also had nothing to do with McCarthy.
What, is he scared of someone finding old reruns of The Critic?
Edit: Though the points he's making are right and valid; though how to tell the difference between pushing the envelope and just plain "mean" - I guess Don Rickles would never get anywhere if he started out today.
"Watch out for self-censorship. I don't mean use all the swears, just that if you find you're stopping yourself from saying something, ask yourself why." - A teacher, paraphrased.
"These commies are just as bad as this lie the commies made up"
good joke, ngl.