{"id":122322,"date":"2021-02-09T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122322"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:27:43","slug":"don-cheadle-cancel-culture-is-not-really-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-cheadle-cancel-culture-is-not-really-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Cheadle: Cancel Culture Is \u2018Not Really Real\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdon-cheadle-cancel-culture-is-not-really-real%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DonCheadle.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actor Don Cheadle does not include himself among the list of celebrities warning about the dangers of cancel culture and believes that its dangers have been overblown.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/don-cheadle-super-bowl-commercial-cancel-culture\">Fox News<\/a>, the \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d star said that cancel culture is only real \u201cif you listen to that noise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess it\u2019s real to the degree that you listen to that noise. I don\u2019t know that people are purely canceled because \u2026 I don\u2019t know that there are any pure irredeemable situations unless it\u2019s been deemed, not that you have said something off, but that you are that way and that there is stuff in your past that is consistent with that thing that you said, that one-off thing that looked like a one-off moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cheadle added that the nature of social media has created a \u201clive by the sword, die by the sword\u201d environment and that people who often participate in it are dismayed when the system comes back to bite them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you live by the sword, you die by the sword\u2026 I think that cancel culture, a lot of that is just a fabrication,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not really real. I don\u2019t think a lot of people who are crying about being canceled are really \u2018canceled.\u2019 I think they just don\u2019t enjoy the spot that they had before. And they\u2019ve gotten flack and blowback. Now they want to talk about it in terms of something that is untoward or unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have some belief that there was going to be fairness in social media, to begin with, is a bit of a fallacy,\u201d he added. \u201cYou\u2019re playing around on the third rail and things can turn on you fast. We\u2019ve all had versions of that happen, I think, especially when you\u2019re on Twitter and it\u2019s just moment to moment. It\u2019s easy to step into some stuff. But yeah, I think that\u2019s the risk you take. Right? If you want to poke your head up and be a loud voice, then you take the risk of the culture looking at you and going, \u2018Yeah, I don\u2019t want to listen to you. Next.\u2019 That\u2019s what it is. Don\u2019t play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, Cheadle said he is \u201cmore hopeful\u201d about the future now that Biden is in the White House, though he did emphasize the need to pressure elected leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I\u2019m definitely more hopeful for the future. But I do think that hope without action is fruitless. And we have to, for all of our leaders, continue to be vocal and continue to be constituents that speak up and show up,\u201d he said. \u201cIf there is no political cost often for these candidates and for people who get into office and become our representatives, they don\u2019t feel any pressure to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s always a balance of who\u2019s got the big chair and who are the people behind them, and then who are us out here as citizens and how are we behaving?\u201d he added. \u201cAnd what are the things that we are forcing our leaders to do? And how are we doing that? Because if that\u2019s not the entire mix, then things don\u2019t get done because bureaucracy is much more powerful. Inertia is one of the strongest forces on the planet. And it\u2019s much easier not to do anything than to do something. So hope is great, but action is better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Cleese, Ricky Gervais, Bryan Cranston, Rowan Atkinson, Ethan Hawke and many others have all denounced cancel culture in one facet or another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ethan-hawke-denounces-cancel-culture-a-petrifying-time-to-speak-about-male-sexuality\">Ethan Hawke Denounces Cancel Culture: \u2018A Petrifying Time To Speak About Male&nbsp;Sexuality\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Don Cheadle does not include himself among the list of celebrities warning about the dangers of cancel culture and believes that its dangers have been overblown. 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