I meant your comment. "Omg he doesn't agree with either group of opinions that both originated near the far ends of their respective ideologies?! This is what he deserves for not getting into one camp or the other!!"
That's some mentally weak shit.
The Overton window did not get shifted by Burr, and trying to make it sound as if you knew better than he about his own opinions, and the tack he chose was incorrect for the reasons you've surmised is hubris.
Attacking the fence sitters is a wonderful way to push them into the arms of our political enemies wholesale.
I agree. I don't dislike Burr. I'm just pointing this out more as an example of what happens when cancel culture goes unchecked. It doesn't really matter who the cancelled person is at that point, the saying goes "first they came for Alex Jones and I said nothing because I don't agree with him" and so on.
I do hope this bullshit does wake Burr up. He would do well to use his stage as a stand up comic to go full bore on cancel culture.
I like Bill Burr, but he plays the fence on the politics and he's getting burned
This. I don't hate him as much as the thread OP here, but he's paying the price of being a fence sitter and not speaking up.
This is a purity spiral.
Good term for it.
I meant your comment. "Omg he doesn't agree with either group of opinions that both originated near the far ends of their respective ideologies?! This is what he deserves for not getting into one camp or the other!!"
That's some mentally weak shit.
The Overton window did not get shifted by Burr, and trying to make it sound as if you knew better than he about his own opinions, and the tack he chose was incorrect for the reasons you've surmised is hubris.
Attacking the fence sitters is a wonderful way to push them into the arms of our political enemies wholesale.
Meh, give the guy a break. He's always been pretty apolitical.
Even if he was a devout and outspoken conservative, this still would have happened to him.
Maybe this bullshit will wake him up though and maybe he will start speaking out against the left.
I agree. I don't dislike Burr. I'm just pointing this out more as an example of what happens when cancel culture goes unchecked. It doesn't really matter who the cancelled person is at that point, the saying goes "first they came for Alex Jones and I said nothing because I don't agree with him" and so on.
I do hope this bullshit does wake Burr up. He would do well to use his stage as a stand up comic to go full bore on cancel culture.