On occasion over the years I will listen to Dr Laura Schlessinger (radio/XM/podcaster person). Leftists have tried to cancel her many, many times over the last 30 years.

One of her lines that I have always really enjoyed, usually in the context of mopey people feeling "guilty" about something is (paraphrase) "Don't use the word guilty to describe how you feel unless you done something illegal or immoral. You are allowed to have opinions, you are allowed to disappoint people, you are allowed to make other people upset, but guilt is reserved for illegality and immorality."

I think that's a good framework to use. The left loves to ignore the "immoral" part of that.

Saying you wish President Trump had been shot is not illegal and it is free speech. By the code of conduct that MOST of us live by, it is however, immoral.

You can say immoral things and practice immoral actions, but you may suffer the consequences. That's fair.

I personally don't care about the Tenacious D thing, the audience didn't care, and I wasn't giving them any money or listens anyway. But, I also think it's very fair that Jack Black bailed.

A functioning society needs standards that go beyond law. Christianity and a Eurocentric cultural standard played that role for many years in America. That's gone now, and we have moved into a low-trust and low-agreement society. The chickens have come home to roost for many people, and it's not pretty.