Now this is silly😅

I can't imagine (thank God) how psychologically toxic it must be to compulsively divide your worldview into black vs white. Viewing the world in this simplistic, zero-sum way absolutely forces you to obfuscate people's humanity. Do you really feel as if this benefits you, the fight against racism, or society in general?

And no, the root of cancel culture isn't accountability. It's the sheer hubris that allows people to believe they have a right to demand "accountability" from total strangers because they dare to have a different point of view or said something ignorant a decade ago. It's the intellectual cowardice that tempts people to rely on intimidation instead of reason to change people's minds. It's the emotional immaturity that allows people to dehumanise everybody who disagrees with them so they can justify their utterly disproportionate cruelty.

I agree, Goldberg shouldn't have been suspended. It's ridiculous that she was. That's actually the point I'm making in this silly little article. It would also have been ridiculous (and utterly meaningless, Rogan lost subscribers when he went exclusive with Spotify) if Rogan had been kicked off Spotify. Would you really have felt as if you'd won if he'd kept his millions, continued podcasting to an even bigger audience, and also became a martyr for the "never apologise" crowd? Especially as he did apologise? And has obviously evolved in the past 9 years. What’s the endgame here?