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First of all, thank you for reading this article about my new book, The Cancel Culture Dictionary. I have to admit I’m a little perplexed by the amount of coverage it’s gotten on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, and even billboards in Times Square. That being said, if you look at my high school grades, you can see why people are a little excited about the idea of a guy like me becoming a published author. This is the literary equivalent of OJ becoming a marriage counselor.
When I was growing up in Levittown, New York in the 1980s, this was something I did more regularly. It was a simpler time when people just wanted MTV and ET was the only one who was obsessed with using their phones, but if that movie were being made today, he wouldn’t be home I won’t call, I’ll probably text home and get back to fighting about politics with my fellow aliens on Twitter.
I mention social media because cancel culture would not exist without social media. Don’t get me wrong, there have always been people following comedians like Dave Chappelle, but in the ’80s we didn’t call them “cancel culture” we called them “LOSERS”.
Jimmy Failla’s new book ‘Cancel Culture Dictionary’ shines a spotlight on the era of outrage plaguing society.
Back then, we all knew the difference between a joke and a hate crime, and everyone treated comedy for granted like a buffet. When I found a joke I liked, I tossed it into the tray. If you don’t like the joke, just ignore it and keep walking. Everyone gets their own tray so no need to queue and argue with the chef. Besides, who cares what people laugh at?
Those are just jokes!
Unfortunately, people today don’t just argue with chefs, they film them and post them online to score points. The digital dopamine we call “like!”
Comedy, music, and movies were once places where Americans could put aside their differences, but these days, as everything we consume is trampled under the stampede of social justice, we’re left with a sense of escapism. I lost.
That is cancel culture in a nutshell. A group of complaint hunters who crack down on traditional sources of pleasure and crimes that can weaponize your anger to increase your influence.
Jimmy Failla’s “Cancel Culture Dictionary” aims to help Americans win the war on fun
They are cultural arsonists, but what all cancellations have in common is the fact that once the mob gets their way, they move on without making any tangible progress for anyone but themselves.
Chasing superficial things like Aunt Jemima’s syrup bottles doesn’t improve anyone’s life. Especially the black family who received a check for 130 years of royalty because one of her relatives played Aunt Jemima. Yes, Aunt Jemima was 130 years old. She is the same age as Mitch McConnell.
People who think woke bail reform is working because sending the Pancake Lady to the big breakfast nook in the sky doesn’t raise test scores in the city’s failing schools, and the crime rate is higher. Only.
Before canceling the culture, no one took issue with Native American mascots because everyone knew they were chosen to celebrate the culture, not to mock it. It was. After all, there is a certain nobility in calling oneself a chieftain or a hero. If you don’t believe me, just ask Elizabeth Warren.
However, the Washington Redskins logo was discontinued, even though it was donated to the NFL as a “perpetual gift” by a tribe that wanted the team to be called the Redskins. This logo symbolized the highest level of elite warriors, chosen to lead their tribes into battle with their faces painted red.
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You can still say you don’t like the Redskins name, but you can never say that changing the halftime show has led to improved quality of life on Native American reservations.
And therein lies the biggest drawback of cancel culture. Disguising superficial victories as social progress is not activism, but slacktivism.
Sadly, it has created divisions in areas that previously provided us with a common culture and shattered our ability to coexist politically. Comedy, music, and movies were once places where Americans could put aside their differences, but these days, as everything we consume is trampled under the stampede of social justice, we’re left with a sense of escapism. I lost.
When I was a kid, my white parents yelled at me for eating too much ice cream.today is mine ben & jerry’s ice cream They yell at me for having white parents. I promise it wasn’t supposed to work this way.
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Simply put, the era of cancel culture and weaponized censorship has shattered our compass and left us fighting the wrong battles. However, in writing this book, I am not looking for weapons. Rather, it’s a call to everyone to calm down and ignore the grumbling clowns. Now, it comes down to addition and subtraction.
Thank you for reading. If you like my book, please share it with your friends. Of course, if you have any complaints, please forward them to Greg Gutfeld.
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