I’ve been planning on doing a video about making your life cancel proof. You know, particularly for guys. All it takes is one accusation. One social justice warrior to just completely ruin your career. And I still need to do that video because it really still is an issue. But it does hurt a comedy bit. That completely changed my attitude on things.
It was Chad Daniels I believe his name is, and he’s comedianand he doing a bit on how his wife is afraid that one of these days he’s going to open his mouth and get canceled.
And his argument and I think it’s a really good argument with one caveat, is that at least as an entertainer, you’re never truly canceled. You are just changing your target demographic. And I think that’s realistically true. On one condition. And that is, no matter what you have said, you have to hold your line if you truly believe it, if you meant to say what you said, don’t back down. I don’t care how offensive it is, I rude it is how politically incorrect it is.
You hold your line because you’ve already offended the people you’re going to offend. Apologizing doesn’t do shit, but there are people who will resonate with you and agree with your statement. No matter how rude or offensive or just bad it was. There are people that are now your fans provided you don’t backpedal. As soon as you do that, you don’t just lose the first crowd, you lose the second crowd because you’ve just shown you don’t have any balls.
The best things you can do in America, at least, is be genuine, even if it’s offensive. You will find your people, but you got to be able to just truly be you. And don’t apologize for it. So I wouldn’t say go out and be offensive on purpose, but if somebody tries to pull the cancel bullshit on you, don’t fight it.
Don’t try and apologize. Embrace it and find yourself a new target market.
That’s my thought on that.