There is no mercy and no redemption in today’s cancel culture

[Ptarmigan]

There is no mercy and no redemption in today’s cancel culture
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/there-is-no-mercy-and-no-redemption-in-todays-cancel-culture.html

It is one thing when, as an adult, you are held accountable for the life you choose to live, especially if you are unrepentant. It is another thing when, as a young adult, you are severely penalized for a three-second video posted on social media when you were just 15.

But that is exactly what happened to Mimi Groves.

She was a championship-winning cheerleader in high school and was accepted by the University of Tennessee, her dream school. She was also accepted by their cheerleading squad, which was one of the top squads in the nation.

Now 18 years old, she was excited to start living out her college dream. And that’s when the cancel culture struck.

Cancel culture is vicious.

But that is not how the cancel culture thinks. It does not understand the concepts of mercy and redemption. Instead, it is ruthless and unforgiving.

One of her high school classmates, Jimmy Galligan, whose mother is black and whose father is white, decided to make an example of her after a friend sent him a text message with her three-second video. He sent it to the school faculty and administrators, but they did nothing about it, leaving him frustrated and angry.

So, he waited for an opportune moment.

When he saw Mimi’s post in support of Black Lives Matter, which he should have cheered on, he decided instead to strike again, posting her video on Instagram once he learned which college she planned to attend. From there, the video spread to other social media platforms, including Tik Tok, as a result of which the University of Tennessee received a flood of emails and letters, protesting Mimi’s presence on the campus.

Cancel culture is extreme puritanism.

Yet in today’s cancel culture, the earlier sins of my youth could have been held against me for life instead of simply being part of my personal testimony.

In the words of Australian singer and songwriter Nick Cave, “As far as I can see, cancel culture is mercy’s antithesis. Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world. Its once honourable attempt to reimagine our society in a more equitable way now embodies all the worst aspects that religion has to offer (and none of the beauty) — moral certainty and self-righteousness shorn even of the capacity for redemption. It has become quite literally, bad religion run amuck.”

I hope and pray that in the days ahead, Mimi’s fortunes will take a dramatic turn and in the days ahead her best and most wholesome dreams will be fulfilled. I also hope and pray that Jimmy will learn that vindictiveness destroys and that forgiveness liberates.

[Texacon]

I think Thundley nailed it in another thread on this cheerleader.  I think that boy had an ax to grind.  Why else would you hold onto a 3 second video for 4 years?  She probably turned him down for a date or something.

KC

[DLR Pyro]

Being a half black/half white I suspect he did this to get cred so he would be considered as a legit black

[Texacon]

Being a half black/half white I suspect he did this to get cred so he would be considered as a legit black

I can't figure out what's going on with all the commercials lately.  It seems like 80% of them are showing black/white married folks and included in a lot of those plus some, there are a lot of gays.

I don't care what you marry (as long as it's legal), but this isn't a true representation of any population anywhere.

KC

[dutch508]

Not just commercials. It's the TV shows and movies too.

[DLR Pyro]

I can't figure out what's going on with all the commercials lately.  It seems like 80% of them are showing black/white married folks and included in a lot of those plus some, there are a lot of gays.

I don't care what you marry (as long as it's legal), but this isn't a true representation of any population anywhere.

KC

pandering, virtue signaling, wokeness b.s...

[thundley4]

I can't figure out what's going on with all the commercials lately.  It seems like 80% of them are showing black/white married folks and included in a lot of those plus some, there are a lot of gays.

I don't care what you marry (as long as it's legal), but this isn't a true representation of any population anywhere.

KC

Posted by: dutch508

Not just commercials. It's the TV shows and movies too.

Judging by TV and movies you would think that white heterosexual couples are a minority of the families in this country.

[Eupher]

Not just commercials. It's the TV shows and movies too.

Especially the gay shit. Trying real hard to legitimize an abnormal lifestyle. Can't be done, but they have at least half the population convinced that the gay lifestyle is perfectly normal.

[dutch508]

Posted by: dutch508
Judging by TV and movies you would think that white heterosexual couples are a minority of the families in this country.

Judging by TV and Movies you'd think whites are a minority in this country...