It’s not exactly Omaha Beach, but it does take a wee bit of courage to stand up to the Mothening, and in the kingdom of gelatinous single-cell microorganisms, where the concept of backbone has not been dreamt of, being wee makes you a giant.
Netflix even suspended three internal critics (one of whom was a trans activist who went into a Twitter rage storm about Chappelle) after they crashed an online meeting they weren’t invited to.
Every corporation, newspaper and university should take note: when all around you are acting like children, order tends to get restored quickly when someone decides to be a grownup. Sarandos has offered a lesson to the next person or company faced with a cancel culture mob: Just don’t give in.
If people want to disagree with one another, that’s fine. If Netflix employees or anyone else wants to argue Chappelle is wrong for saying “Gender is a fact,” they’re free to do so. But “shut up” is not an argument.
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