[mikepurvis]

I think there's another layer here with the virtue signalling side of it, and that depends on the exact communities/movements that a person is a part of. Like, where is the cancellation of Marjorie Taylor Greene over the absurd Holocaust comments? Matt Gaetz claims to be "cancelled" but could appear on multiple prime time cable news shows basically whenever he wants [1]. It was a huge battle getting Bill O'Reilly off the air, and he walked with a $32M severance, more money than most normal people see in a lifetime— see the movie Bombshell for a dramatization of that story. These people aren't cancellable because they're already powerful, protected, and the audience they have doesn't care about the complaints (or revels in them).

Maybe it's something of a reaction to these frustrations that some progressive circles have adopted this knee-jerk zero tolerance stance, where no crime or perceived crime is too small to attempt to silence someone for. YouTube film commentator Lindsay Ellis went through a bunch of this recently, and basically dealt with it by making a 1.5 hour video where she itemizes everything she's been accused of, and drinks her way through explaining and apologizing for all of it (including, wretchedly, sharing about her own history with a sexual assault). [2]

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4