My heart breaks for this rich, powerful man who has found a place in life where he can’t just ignore things he doesn’t like. It’s an embarrassment to subject someone like him to what non-rich, non-powerful people experience.
Cancel culture invariably effects the poor and powerless to a greater extent. The poor are shackled to their next pay check, the truely powerful cannot be cancelled.
My favorite is this article that details the case of a Palestinian business that is wrecked because of some very ugly tweets his daughter wrote seven years prior. Even after firing his daughter, they still kept punishing him. https://forward.com/news/national/448382/the-ceo-of-holy-lan...