HBO’s Bill Maher
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The liberal comedian and commentator scolded the publication for engaging in what he called a “culture of cancellation” during the last episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher”.
“I don’t want to talk about cancellation culture every week, but I don’t think people understand how much of a tsunami this is and how the beams change quickly, almost weekly,” said Maher during a guest segment Nick Gillespie, the general editor of “Reason, “ and the former Democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp
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Heitkamp brought up the recent controversy surrounding McCammond as one of the most recent examples of the culture of cancellation in American society, to which Maher replied, “I mean, really, are we canceling people because of this?”
“OK, she just got a great job – well, she lost a great job – Teen Vogue editor. And because she tweeted in high school, this is high school,” said Maher. “People talk shit in particular, we can’t stop it from legislating.
Gillespie agreed with Maher, saying that people adopted a “distorted ideology”.
“And it is taking the place of religion,” said Gillespie. “People who say, ‘I get hurt when I hear something that offends me’, which is the equivalent of violence. Words are not equivalent to violence ”.
Heitkamp also condemned Teen Vogue’s actions, arguing that the publication should have gone ahead with McCammond as editor-in-chief.
“Teen Vogue should have said, ‘Look, that happened a long time ago’, but they are so afraid of any kind of controversy,” she told Maher. “Corporate America needs to stop buying these things.”
“Okay, someone needs to be brave,” replied Maher.
McCammond announced his departure from the magazine on Thursday.
“My previous tweets obscured the work I did to highlight the people and issues that interest me – issues that Teen Vogue worked tirelessly to share with the world – so Condé Nast and I decided to split up,” she wrote in a statement on Twitter .