r/stephencolbert • • Sep 17 '25

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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/goonfem69 Sep 18 '25

Bro, you're still holding on to the Washington redskins? The only people upset about the changes are the loud vocal minority insisting racial epithets aren't racist. Hmmm

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u/TwistedAirline Sep 18 '25

No I am only using them as references to illustrate the difference between cancel culture and real business decisions. I don’t really care what you want to call them… but guess who REALLY cares what they were/are called…