If It Happened Before You Existed, It Wasn't Your Fault
The Absurd Apology Only Fuels the Cancel Culture Beast
Thanks again to American Thinker for running a version of this piece. You can visit the webstie at:https://www.americanthinker.com/
Ah, the cancel culture apology - for the Twitterati who have foisted this nightmare upon the world, the apology is the goal, the dopamine fix they need to get through the day, to prove to themselves that they have a proper place in the world, that cancelling people is appropriate because they must have done something bad if they're saying sorry, and that they are always right.
In other words, the apology is the automatically dispensed food pellet micenized humans crave.
As I wrote in a previous piece -
- on the issue, "(A)void when appropriate the cure of the apology. While everyone has done something they are not proud of and really should try to make up for it, by saying you are sorry for something other people did decades before you were born you are only ensuring that that type of (cancel culture) virus will sooner rather than later infect someone else. And the plague that is inherited multi-generational dishonor is – and shall always be as long as it is allowed to exist – incurable."
(Oh, and if it's gauche to reference/link a different article from the same site, then I apologize for this discrete act and not for the fact I can type and that the typewriter was probably invented by a racist and that language is inherently exclusive.)
It is the apology that drives cancel culture because it encourages more acts of electronic subjugation, re-education, and humiliation.
Take, for example, Ellie Kemper of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt fame. When she was younger she won a beauty contest. While it is true that the Veiled Prophet Ball had a racially problematic (to say the least) past, it is also true that the sponsoring group integrated in 1979 – the year before Kemper was born. Even still, after Twitidiots called her a “KKK Princess” for participating in the event 20 years later, she still for some reason felt obligated to apologize for things that occurred before she even existed.
"Hey guys – when I was 19 years old, I decided to participate in a debutante ball in my hometown. The century-old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist, and elitist past. I was not aware of this history at that time, but ignorance is no excuse. I was old enough to have educated myself before getting involved,” Kemper said. "I unequivocally deplore, denounce, and reject white supremacy. At the same time, I acknowledge that because of my race and my privilege, I am the beneficiary of a system that has dispensed unequal justice and unequal rewards."
This cringe/whinge is quite comparable to John Cleese’s character in A Fish Called Wanda offering his apology – an equally unnecessary apology - to the not very bright but very very violent character named Otto played by Kevin Kline:
Kline - Apologise.
Cleese - What? Me to you?
Kline - Apologise.
Cleese - I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice. I deeply regret any distress my comments may have caused you or your family. And I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.
And in the scene Cleese is being held upside down by his feet out of a fourth-floor window over the Thames River here -
- while Kemper was only facing mean tweets, disappointed looks from people she had never met before, and the odd feeling that people are saying “you’re too rich and too white and too cute” as if it were inherently insulting behind her back.
It may feel horrible – for even such a brief moment – but the internet only becomes Otto if we allow it.
That’s why this auto-apology trend starting to halt is a good thing.. JK Rowling, John Cleese himself, Joe Rogan, Dave Chapelle, and Ricky Gervais (who is doing everything he can to get even more cancelled to better his career) and countless others have started to say NO to the baseless apology demands, exemplified here https://spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/cancel-culture-gets-its-comeuppance/ .
And that is extremely important, because once the food pellets made up of the fear of others are gone the micenized humans will – most likely, at least hopefully - go away.