Ellery Smith, Robot Chicken, and the Cancel Culture Cycle

• 0:19Tim doesn't support anyone losing their job over old jokes, even if he unknowingly helped amplify it
• 0:59Ellery Smith, a Robot Chicken writer, tweeted blaming Shane Gillis's anti-Asian slur joke for inspiring the Atlanta massage parlor shooting
• 1:21The Atlanta shooting had no evidence of anti-Asian targeting; the shooter also killed white victims
• 2:23Tim argues hateful jokes don't actually beget violence; removing offensive humor could increase violence because people lose tension release
• 4:10People dug up Ellery's own old racist tweets about Thai food, blonde Asians, and dreadlocks
• 4:41Ellery claimed she was only 19 when she posted racist tweets and called them tasteless
• 5:11Tim notes that people like Ellery call their past behavior a growth journey, but apply different standards to comedians like Shane Gillis
• 5:28The real issue: Tim and other comedians refuse to pretend their offensive jokes caused real violence, so progressives call them irredeemable
• 6:32Ellery lost her day job but remained pro-consequence culture, which Tim identifies as cult thinking with only one way out
• 6:43Tim describes the cancel culture dynamic as a deprogramming trap with no escape route

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