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I can't believe that you would read [Taibbi's history] and say, "people engage in humor that offends others. People say things that are insensitive. Get over it. These hall monitors who make a life out of finding grievance with anything that can be portrayed as even slightly offensive are miserable bores who are ruining art."
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That was decades ago, and the rest of his canon is amazing work. So here I am repeating myself: Get over it. To paraphrase Mick Jagger from "Stray Cat Blues," a supremely offensive song that has never left my running mix, "this ain't no hanging matter... this ain't no capital crime."
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Yes, I think Taibbi should repent, and I don't think he should be heard complaining about cancel culture until he owns what he did.
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The only word that fits this absurd demand is "daft."
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It is beyond obvious that many of the people complaining about "cancel culture" have done things that are indefensible and would rather talk about "cancel culture" to avoid answering for them.
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Oh, yes... We must have a giant recrimination party. Let's all apologize for everything. Cancel Eddie Murphy as a homophobe. Throw Chapelle in the same boat. And Kevin Hart needs to suffer more! How dare Louis CK even try to resume a career!
Lord of the Rings needs to be taken out of circulation. Author held racist views. Hemingway? Gone. Total sexist. Faulkner? He lived on a plantation and celebrated the antebellum South. Burn his books. And burn
Farenheit 451 as well, for mocking the idea of banning books. We must ban certain art in service to social justice. Bradbury's work could be used as an argument against this sort of thing!
Have you been a womanizer in your life? Been a member of a frat? A golf club? Did you make a Christopher Reeves joke? A dead baby joke? Ever comment to a co-worker about a new female hire's awesome ass? Wear a "No Fat Chix" t-shirt in the 80s?
Is the
Animal House scene where the pledge considers taking liberties with a drunk underage girl still funny to you? Is NWA's sexist "I Ain't Tha One" still in your iMusic? Still watching
Blazin' Saddles?
You didn't care about Kavanaugh. Didn't even watch the hearings, let alone live blog about how terrible they were on FB.
Have you called up all the girls at the less attractive sororities your house didn't have mixers with in college and apologized for objectification? Do you feel bad that you daydreamed during those workshops on inclusivity?
Are you still checking out women's asses like they're pieces of meat? Shame on you. And stop using "cocksucker" as an insult! It's offensive to people who suck cocks!
You still have the Geto Boys' first record, don't you? How can you be so disgusting?
I'm not even going near your porn consumption. I don't care that it's rather vanilla. All of it - all of it - is wrong. You should be reading Andrea Dworkin! But you don't even know about second or third wave feminism, do you? Never took those courses, did you? Because you don't care. You're oblivious, a dinosaur. Your privilege lets you get away with that.
Well, you need to start apologizing. Atoning. Because social justice!
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Those are your bedfellows and they are shitting the bed. If you want to stay in bed with them, that's certainly your right.
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But I won't be exercising it. If the lunacy you and most other people in this new social justice religion that silly white maleducated people have developed (hijacking and obscuring the very real and urgent cause of justice reform started by BLM) has taught me anything, it's that you are nuts. You are caught in a moral panic and have lost your mind. There is no sane conversation to be had with you. You're a fundamentalist.
So I'll quietly continue to support justice reform, but as to you and every other upper middle class frivolous person who seeks to demand every Taibbi (or generally "privileged" person) wear a hairshirt for the rest of his or her days, I'll say this: "I need to refresh my drink. Carry on without me." I'll be in the corner, telling filthy jokes with the oblivious and unrepentant.
