{"id":585188,"date":"2021-07-07T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585188"},"modified":"2021-07-07T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:06:24","slug":"sean-penn-conan-obrien-denounce-cancel-culture-calling-it-soviet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sean-penn-conan-obrien-denounce-cancel-culture-calling-it-soviet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn, Conan O\u2019Brien Denounce Cancel Culture, Calling it \u2018Soviet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fsean-penn-conan-obrien-denounce-cancel-culture-calling-it-soviet%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=585188&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\/07\/Penn.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It seems even Hollywood\u2019s most notorious left-wing activists are waking up to the dangers of cancel culture.<\/p>\n<p>In the July 5 episode of the podcast, \u201cConan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend,\u201d the recently retired host of \u201cLate Night with Conan O\u2019Brien\u201d asked veteran actor Sean Penn about the trend of destroying careers for past political incorrectness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmpathy is a very important word and also forgiveness,\u201d said O\u2019Brien. \u201cWe found that someone did something in 1979 that is now not appropriate. They\u2019re dead to us.\u201d O\u2019Brien went on to describe cancel culture as \u201cvery Soviet,\u201d saying, \u201cPeople can also be forgiven. If they even need forgiving. What happened to that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penn agreed with O\u2019Brien, calling the practice \u201cludicrous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In illustration, Penn brought up Alexi McCammond, editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue who was fired after only a few weeks on the job for anti-Asian comments she tweeted as a teenager. \u201cWhen we\u2019re destroying careers like that, what are we really achieving? What are we doing?\u201d the Oscar-winning star of films like \u201cI Am Sam\u201d and \u201cMystic River\u201d wondered.<\/p>\n<p>The two men then turned to how the trend is impacting their particular genres of show business with Penn pointing out that he would no longer be considered for a part like groundbreaking gay activist Harvey Milk because he\u2019s straight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, almost certainly I would not be permitted to be cast in that role,\u201d Penn said. \u201cWe\u2019re living in a time when, if you\u2019re playing a gay lead character, you\u2019d have to be a gay man or a trans character. And there have been these casting issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then warned that the Left has pushed the cause of \u201crepresentation\u201d too far. \u201cWhen you have a period of evolution that certainly has an opportunity for people who have had less opportunities to move forward. That has to be supported, and yet in this pendulum swing society that we\u2019re in, you wonder at some point if only Danish Princes can play Hamlet. It is, I believe, too restrictive. People are looking for gotcha moments and to criticize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien likened Penn\u2019s experience to the current tendency among late-night talk show hosts to make comedy political\u2014a trend he has pointedly resisted because, he said, it can lead to \u201closing your way\u201d when it comes to being funny:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know people in comedy, people who do the job that I do that feel like there\u2019s so much that\u2019s happening that doesn\u2019t feel funny that they feel like it\u2019s their job to speak out about those things,\u201d he said, adding. \u201cAnd I think, yes that\u2019s great but it\u2019s easy for that to just turn into anger and outrage, and then you\u2019re not, you feel like you\u2019re losing your way as a comedian. And I think that\u2019s what gets so tricky right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien continued, \u201cThe job is \u2018how can I reflect some of what\u2019s happening around me, but also for me, I just know that I serve at the altar of silliness and comedy and that is what I need to try and get back to. That\u2019s what I need to \u2014 that\u2019s where my strength comes and that means, I have to be honest with you, there are times when the news is such that I feel like my comedy can\u2019t have anything to do with it. And some people might say, \u2018Well, that\u2019s a cop-out. You should make your comedy about what is happening right now.\u2019 And I just think, frankly, I don\u2019t have that ability. There are times when it\u2019s embarrassing to be in show business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>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<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems even Hollywood\u2019s most notorious left-wing activists are waking up to the dangers of cancel culture.In the July 5 episode of the podcast, \u201cConan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend,\u201d the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314171,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Penn.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sean Penn, Conan O\u2019Brien Denounce Cancel Culture, Calling it \u2018Soviet\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Penn.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sean Penn, Conan O\u2019Brien Denounce Cancel Culture, Calling it \u2018Soviet\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}