They're not just taking the MJ episode out of syndication/the FXX app. They're removing it from future pressings of season 3 for retail as well.


My personal take on cancel culture is that it's akin to the NCAA takin wins away from a school after they're found to be cheating the system. I guess on paper the history books won't show that Louisville won March Madness in 2013 but anyone who was alive at that time and watched basketball certainly will remember. I'm not a victim of anything (other than twice being unknowingly dosed with drugs in a public setting, though I had friends around to get me out of the situation both times) and I recognize that relieves me of Kevin Spacey or Michael Jackson reminding me of a bad experience in my life...but I just don't see how Kevin Spacey fondling all those people behind the scenes nullifies the work he did in Seven or Glengarry Glen Ross or whatever.


I too am really curious what the statute of limitations is going to be on both cancellations and how far back people want to go with that stuff, or what crimes are acknowledgeably bad but not cancellable offenses. I've seen some arguments made both facetiously and earnestly that follow the slippery slope all the way down to the bill of rights and the irony that it was written by men who kept slaves - do we throw that out because its creators had unsavory aspects to their lives? Or do what people all through history have done, and learn that people are not infallible and just strive to do better going forward and learn from the dark side of powerful people's lives? The bill of rights part is kind of stupid, but it gets at the thing I'm struggling with that I think people can be elevated and made better by the art - or legislation, or whatever - created by bad people, and it's ultimately a little showy and dramatic to make an attempt at pretending the person/thing never happened.


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