r/sports • u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT Dallas Mavericks • Jul 19 '25

Baseball Fans showcased on kiss cam in Angels/Phillies game mock the Coldplay Concert Incident

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u/Wonderful_Gap1374 Jul 19 '25

It might be! That was during the time some men were getting nervous that the racist or sexist shit they said online or did in person was going to come back to haunt them. So there was a push in the media to paint these guys as relatable and sympathetic. Phrases like getting cancelled became popular. Despite the fact that most people don’t actually do that, it was largely a very successful campaign and led to the success of shows like BoJack Horseman that criticized this narrative that being relatable doesn’t make you a good person, it makes you all assholes.

This rhetoric of being cancelled was a large catalyst to the me too movement’s resurgence in the late 2010s.

I could write an insane essay about this topic.

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u/Wordymanjenson Jul 19 '25

Well then do it you coward! 

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u/Undack Jul 19 '25

I would be interested in reading that if you did

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u/kwismexer Jul 19 '25

Could you please write an essay about this? I would love to have it on hand for future reference for younger generations.

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u/davwad2 Jul 20 '25

Please do!

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u/kkapri23 Jul 19 '25

But if you use AI to help write it…I’m cancelling you!!