Yeah, but why should Harrison Butker be cancelled because he has a differing opinion? This isn't 1930s Germany or Italy.
That would be like the mods here cancelling a poster because they still wish well for Jared Goff.
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I’m don’t give two shits about Harrison Butker and his 1950s views (the modern term would be regressive, but that’s become charged). He’s free to have them and espouse them to his heart’s content. Still has no place on this forum because this place is not the place for that.
And, in a world where we are surrounded with the ILLUSION OF CHOICE (RIP George Carlin), one of the few things people control is how they vote with their dollars.
That’s what “canceling” is. It’s boycotting or avoiding products or services from someone you don’t want to support with your limited money. It’s 110% not a first amendment issue… it’s capitalism which most of us seem to have forgotten about as we’re neck deep in monopolism disguised as capitalism.
Almost no one has been canceled over a tweet or a controversial comment (there are exceedingly few cases where this has been the case, but it’s not the norm no matter how meme’d out it is). The canceling comes AFTER, it’s the consequence of a group of people refusing to buy products or services associated with that person. It’s that person’s employer not wanting to be associated with those statements or behaviors.
Why should he be canceled? I’m not canceling , so I dunno. I imagine with nearly 100% of the fan growth of the NFL being new women and girl fans (new male fans inside the US barely replace those that leave or die, so the growth is US women and international fans), the NFL cares a ton… just from a business perspective, they learned from the Ray Rice debacle that women will leave. Many are new fans without the decades of time, money and attention invested, so they can take their money and leave. To add to that, he’s on the Chiefs. If I’m the Chiefs and I have to choose between a kicker and a BILLION T-Swift fans who are vocal, highly mobilized and an economic juggernaut never before seen on this planet, I’m launching Butker out of a cannon with so much powder, he eventually orbits Jupiter. That’s a basic economic decision.
That’s capitalism… we vote with our dollars. So if you’re against someone having economic consequences for saying or doing something some people disagree with, you’re making a political argument against capitalism. You’re saying that Harrison Butker or anyone else should be able to say something offensive to or about someone and that person should not be afforded the agency over their own purchasing decisions to advocate for themselves or their wants, needs, or desires. And, sorry, we don’t get to police what offends other people.
Sooo… if some folks get offended about a “women in the kitchen” comment and they’re the same folks who are the engine for economic growth of the league at the epicenter of the most rabid fan base in history, the Swifties, I mean… there’s gonna be consequences.
It’s pure FAFO.
I mean, Butker’s on a team with Kelce and Taylor Swift may be the most popular person in modern history and her and her fan base is generating hundreds of millions of dollars for the NFL… and he’s willing to give up everything for a sentiment from Mad Men? Shrug.
Expecting to act without consequences is the behavior of a child. If he didn’t want consequences, he always could have thought before he spoke… out loud… into a microphone
