Cancel Culture Comes for Artists Who Posted About Charlie Kirk’s Death
Media experts, journalists and academics, including the MSNBC commentator, Matthew Dowd, were also dismissed or targeted on their comments on Kirk. Comcast leaders, who owned NBC Universal, sent an e-mail to employees who apparently referred to the dismissal of DOWD on an “unacceptable and insensitive comment on this horrible event. This coverage was in contradiction with the promotion of civil dialogue ”. In response to a request for comments, Comcast has redirected wired to the aforementioned letter.
Cap is not the only cultural product disappeared either in the light of Kirk’s death. Comedy Central has decided not to revive the episode of South Park “Got a Nut”, which satiated the right -wing activist. But Kirk himself had said that the episode was “hilarious” and an example of the “cultural domination” of his debates on the proven university campus. He even changed the image of the Tiktok profile of his show into an image of the character of South Park, Cartman, parodant. (The episode will always be available to broadcast on Paramount +.)
Kirk was one of the most influential conservative activists in the United States. He co -founded the turning point when he was only 18 years old and transformed him into a company of several million dollars. But his political opinions were often inflammatory, racist and transphobic, and he had many criticisms, including people like Felker-Martin, which belonged to one of the groups he ridiculed. In his final exchange before he was killed, Kirk was questioned about transgender mass shooters. He replied that there was “too much”, repeating a myth that was used to attack Trans.
The author Roxane Gay, who spoke in the defense of Felker-Martin, says that if she agrees with the opinions of Felker-Martin “does not matter”.
“Either you believe in freedom of expression, or you do not do it,” she said Wired, describing DC Comics’ decision to shoot Red Hood as the “excessive reaction of the century”.
Of the Trump plan to wipe “the ideology centered on the race” and trans people from the Smithsonian to the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen ColbertThe campaign against Kirk critics and its impact on pop culture do not occur in a vacuum. Humor and satire particularly trigger authoritarian figures, according to the commissioner and critic of the culture Hrag Vartanian, editor -in -chief of artistic publication Hyperallergic.
“Authorities can face violence. They can face everything except to be laughed, ”explains Vartanian.
Vartanian said to Wired that he spoke with many artists who have delayed the demonstration of work on subjects like the war in Gaza or the queerness because of the current political environment, in a form of self -censorship.
Gay says that because she has a family, she must also take less risks. But she says she is still “shocked” that more writers do not openly support Felker-Martin. “If it’s she today, it will be someone else tomorrow,” she says.
For her part, Felker-Martin, who was also frank in her support for Palestine, says that once back on Bluesky, she will probably keep a profile lower.
When asked if there was something that made her feel positive at the moment, she remembers a recent baby shower for a Queer family member.
“We had this huge crowd of trans and queer people, in which we dropped my very nice and normal parents. And it was just this really pleasant day with all our lives somehow mixed and the children who run, ”she says. “I think that living in this area is the best thing we can do for ourselves at the moment. To have and make the community by being between them. ”
