Cancel culture is when you can get fired from your job because you are pregnant or when your boss finds out you’re a boy who likes boys. Cancel culture is when you are denied an apartment because of your immigration status.
Cancel culture is when Black People wait for 12 hours to vote while white people are out in 25 mins. Cancel culture is having your boss give you an Anglicized nick name because Ọyáwálé, Karbalaei, and Saetang are hard to pronounce even though his last name is Wiedenhaupt.
Cancel culture is hiring a newsroom full of editors, reporters, content creators, graphic designers and copy editors who are 85% white and 65% men. Cancel culture is the ability to kill Black People indiscriminately and face no consequences.
Cancel culture is having to worry that your same-gender marriage may be stripped away because some judge appointed by a politician deems it unconstitutional. Cancel culture is having to pay more for healthcare simply because you have a vagina.
Cancel culture is having to constantly prove your American citizenship if you are Black or a Person of Color. "Why are you grilling, walking, bird-watching, selling lemonade, dancing, entering an apartment building or standing in the lobby of a hotel. Why?"
Cancel culture is Black mothers living in one of the richest nations on earth but having the same maternal mortality rate as Vietnam or Mongolia. Cancel culture is living in fear that you won’t get paid if you stay out of work if you suspect you have the coronavirus.
Cancel culture is voter suppression, gerrymandering, disparate impact, Muslim bans, discriminating cake shops, threats of racial violence, attacks on your body autonomy, redlining, predatory lending and mass incarceration.
Cancel culture is NOT being called out for racism, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia, religious bigotry or just general assholery. Don’t be mad that you can't make fat jokes or insult trans people anymore. You can still marry, work and vote. So, ovary up, Snowflakes!
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