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by cbalp 1591 days ago
Strangely, Neil Young isn't canceled for homophobia and the related use of the "F" word. The woke are all about power, the rest is a smoke screen.

Young's use of the "F" word is simply not reported by the party outlets, so hardly anyone knows.

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Nobody cares if people use the F word or any other "bad language" for that matter unless that language is around race or potentially a couple other things like disabilities (eg something like the word "retard"). Can you cite a single instance of someone getting canceled by either side just for cursing?

He's also admitted to doing basically every drug on the planet on his own podcast with absolutely no push back.

You and the commenter to whom you’re responding are referencing different “F” words. Two words which seem to have switched places in terms of power and acceptability over the last generation-and-a-half.