Jon Stewart Doubles Down, Says Trump Is Source Of Cancel Culture

Jon Stewart fashions himself a court jester, but often he�s just a fool.

Consider his bewildering take on cancel culture, which the press often cites
with either scare quotes or prefaced by �so-called.�

There�s nothing imaginary about it.

Tell that to Stewart, who in 2021 claimed it was just a myth, a mirage.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

People that talk about cancel culture never seem to shut the f*** up
about it�Like, there�s more speech now than ever before. It�s not
�you can�t say it,� it�s that when you say it�look, the internet has
democratized criticism. What do we do for a living�we talk s***, we
criticize, we postulate, we opine, we make jokes, and now other
people are having their say. And that�s not cancel culture, that�s
relentlessness. We live in a relentless culture. And the system of
the internet and all those other things are incentivized to find the
pressure points of that and exacerbate it.

Roseanne Barr would like a word. She might be the most infamous cancel
culture victim, her career and signature show erased for one racially charged
tweet for which she immediately apologized.

Or four rebel comics canceled by a Seattle comedy club for telling the
�wrong� jokes.

Or a white male comedian allegedly canceled by his management for being a
white male comedian.

Or a conservative comedian allegedly canceled by a comedy club for being a
conservative comedian.

Or the jokes never told because comedians censor themselves to avoid
cancellation.

Or sitcoms memory holed for blackface-themed gags. Or a beloved episode of
�Fawlty Towers� temporarily shelved by the BBC for racist language. The bit
in question mocked racism, but never mind.

Both shows and humans get canceled by the mob, and Stewart pretended it
didn�t exist.

His talking points had a short shelf life.

Later that same year, Stewart defended fellow comedian Dave Chappelle after
cancel culture came for him. Chappelle�s Netflix special �The Closer�
featured jokes targeting the trans community, along with a longer bit that
paid homage to a late trans comic. His white-hot career and legacy seemed on
the verge of collapse.

The media savaged his shtick. Netflix employees picketed their own company.

Stewart rushed to his pal�s defense.

�. he�s one of my favorite people on the planet and he�s just a good,
decent� � you know, if there is any miscommunication, I�m sure that �
I love that dude, like as a person.

Stewart thought added context could save Chappelle. He forgot the Barr
example.

She has said she went out of her way to hire minority writers on �Roseanne�
to improve the show�s diversity. Former �Roseanne� scribe Norm Macdonald
backed up that claim. That context couldn�t save her career from cancel
culture.

Chappelle�s special could have been canceled by Netflix. Few would have been
surprised by that turn of events and imagine the chilling impact it might
have had on his fellow comedians.

Gosh, if the comedy GOAT like Chappelle can be canceled, what about his
peers?

Shockingly, Netflix stood tall and defended the comedian.

Cancel culture was real then. It�s real now. Kansas City Chiefs kicker
Harrison Butker can tell us all about it, from the Change.org petition
demanding the team fire him for his pro-Catholic views to sports scribes
echoing those demands.

Stewart picked an odd time to re-engage with the cancel culture conversation.
He did it, of course, to smite Donald Trump and the Right.

The former and current �Daily Show� host once dabbled in bipartisan yuks.
Now, those moments are increasingly rare. He�s more akin to the Colbert
School of Comedy. Propaganda, not satire.

Case in point: He brought up Butker�s imbroglio to once again claim cancel
culture is about accountability, not punishment. Why a Catholic must be held
accountable for sharing Catholic beliefs at a Catholic college wasn�t cited
in his rant.

He once again summoned his favorite strawman, that we�re �surrounded by and
inundated with more speech than has ever existed in the history of
communication� to deny cancel culture�s existence. Yes, but that doesn�t
negate the chilling effects cancel culture has on both comedy and the culture
at large.

He doubled down, saying cancel culture doesn�t exist. It�s just a cudgel
wielded by the Right.

Because the idea that there is an all-pervasive, all-powerful threat
to free speech called �cancel culture� has become a central tenet of
modern conservatism. They celebrate their being silenced at
conferences. They celebrate their being silenced on podcasts and
streaming outlets. They celebrate their being silenced with over 700
book titles about �being canceled�. Why are there so many of these
f***ing books?

Stewart pivoted to Orange Man Bad to placate the show�s clapping seals. Turns
out the real cancel culture is happening on the Right, and it�s all Trump�s
fault.

Anyone who dares speak out against him, or refuses to buy into
Trump�s stolen election claims, you�ll lose your job like Liz
Cheney or countless others�In fact, everything the right says
cancel culture does to them is actually being done by MAGA.

Countless others? How are political realities the same as cancel culture?
Wasn�t Cheney�s plight the most extreme example of a politician betraying her
own party over and again and being voted out of office?

It�s deflection. It�s insincere. And it ignores the obvious truth. Cancel
culture is a product of the Left.

Why would Stewart deny it? Because he�s felt the Left�s wrath more than once,
and he knows he better steer clear of it if he still wants to keep peddling
jokes on fancy TV shows.

In 2021 Stewart enraged the Left by saying, on �The Late Show� no less, that
COVID likely came from the lab where the virus originated. He was shocked by
the fallout from that comic rant.

My bigger problem with that was I thought it was a pretty good bit
that expressed kind of how I felt, and the two things that came out
of it were I�m racist against Asian people, and how dare I align
myself with the alt-right.

Sounds not-so-MAGA like.

More recently, he returned to �The Daily Show� and admitted that President
Joe Biden is old, frail, and far from a strong candidate for re-election. The
backlash from the Left was ferocious.

He�s been Colbert-like on the show ever since. That�s the best way to keep
cancel culture off your back, and he knows it.

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