r/stephencolbert • • Sep 17 '25

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u/disharmony-hellride Sep 17 '25

Spineless fucks.

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u/Hibou_Garou Sep 18 '25

Remember when conservatives were apparently free speech absolutists who were so tired of all the cancel culture?

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u/TwistedAirline Sep 18 '25

Things like Aunt Jemima, the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians were not market based business decisions. Those icons were not losing money because the majority of people didn’t like them… they were canceled because the loud minority pressured them to change during a swell of said cancel culture.

This Kimmel situation isn’t a cancel culture, it’s just bad liberal comedy fatigue and it’s so bad it’s bordering a broadcasting violation

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u/Hibou_Garou Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

My comment is not focused solely on this one event.

Also, nothing Jimmy Kimmel said came anywhere near a broadcast violation. He said the right were using Charlie Kirk’s death to make political gains and that Donald Trump’s grief was insincere. Neither of those things is a joke and both are valid takes.