But an email circulated at the college saying, "Tonight, I and other Skidmore students witnessed Profs. He says he just wanted to hear what the demonstrators had to say. He didn’t participate in any way, he didn’t speak or shout slogans, or carry a sign. At Skidmore College in New York State, a professor is being boycotted for merely attending a pro-police “Back the Blue” rally.
The situation has deteriorated to the point that one no longer needs to say anything to be targeted by cancel culture. A professor at the University of Southern California was placed on leave for using a Chinese word that some people think sounds like the n-word even though it is simply the Chinese word for “that.” The professor is a member of USC US-China Institute, and was teaching a communications course and was using the word to illustrate how different languages use different words to fill in pauses. So instead of finding someone who actually used the n-word, they expand the definition of cancel-worthy language. But as people, especially in educational settings, have grown more intimidated, it has been harder for the cancel culture warriors to find such people. They are hardly examples of the rich and powerful.īut at least one can say the security guard actually used the n-word and the teacher actually did have a religious objection to recognizing transgender identities.
The security guard and the teacher each have four children to support and lost their health insurance as well as their income when they were fired. (Thankfully, he was eventually re-hired after a national furor erupted.) The same post discussed a teacher who was fired for inadvertently failing to address a student by his self-identified gender pronoun. A previous post discussed an African American school security guard who was fired for using the N-word in the course of telling a student not to direct that word at him. They are often vulnerable people who suffer devastating harm. The victims of cancel culture are generally not powerful people. This argument confuses dissent with punishment. The rich and powerful are just upset that the masses can now organize their dissent.” You can say and do as pls, and others can choose never to deal this you, your company or your products EVER again. For example, the New York Times columnist Charles Blow, tweets: “Once more THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CANCEL CULTURE. And the word worthy is imbued in all of it.Powerful voices on the institutional left claim that there is no such thing as cancel culture. That’s where I’ve been in my life these last few years. Tom Joyner said this album is a perfect blend of message songs and love songs. Even the love songs are about how you want to be treated, how you want to treat other people.
Then all the other songs started to take shape, being about respect. “At that point, I knew what I wanted to say. The album’s title track is one of the collaborations between Arie and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Joel Cross.
It made me double-down on wanting to call this project Worthy and explore why she asked that question.” “I realized that I didn’t feel unworthy inside but I could see how I could be giving off that energy to others. “When I did the interview with Oprah, she asked me how long unworthiness had been my calling card,” Arie continued. For a while, it was resilient then authentic. It’s so potent and encompasses so much deserving of regard and respect. “The title of the album was Worthy for a couple of years before I had any songs,” she revealed.