Left-wing celeb Sarah Silverman warns against cancel culture: Progressives need to offer 'path to redemption' and stop engaging in 'righteousness porn'



The progressive cancel culture has been on a tear in recent years.

Left-wingers have repeatedly attempted to end the careers of any celebrity (or would-be celebrity) or politician or faith leader who not only says things the radical left opposes but refuses to toe the liberal line on policies, politics, and culture. For example, look at the attempt to take down Christian megastar actor Chris Pratt when he declined being part of a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

But there's at least one member of the liberal progressive crowd who is coming out in opposition to cancel culture: comedian and actress Sarah Silverman.

What did she say?

In a recent episode of her new podcast, Silverman lamented progressives' penchant for attacking someone over a tweet or statement from years before and demanding the "person should be no more, banish them forever."

The comedian noted that people who are rejected are going to find someplace where they can find love or acceptance.

She went on to tell fellow liberals that they need to offer a "path to redemption" or risk losing people forever as they seek a tribe that will embrace them.

"In this cancel culture, and we all know what I'm talking about," Silverman said, "whether you think there is one or there isn't one or where you stand on it — and there's a lot of gray matter [sic] there — but without a path to redemption, when you take someone, you found a tweet they wrote seven years ago or a thing that they said, and you expose it and you say, 'This person should be no more, banish them forever.' They're going to find someplace where they are accepted.

"And it's not going to be with progressives," she warned. "Which ironically means to be changed, progress."

For the left, this should be concerning, she said, because that means people will be going to the "motherf***ing dark side."

She blasted fellow progressives for wanting to "point to ourselves as right and them as wrong," labeling such actions and attitudes as a form of "righteousness porn."

"If we don't give these people a path to redemption, then they're going to go where they are accepted, which is the motherf***ing dark side," the comedian continued. "I think there should be some kind of path."

"Do we want people to be changed?" she asked. "Or do we want them to stay the same to freeze in a moment we found on internet from 12 years ago, and so we can point to ourselves as right and them as wrong?"

Content warning: rough language

Dipping my toe into a take on cancel culture in episode 2.#SarahSilvermanPodcast eps 1-5Here:… https://t.co/Sbl8gV8NdB
— Sarah Silverman (@Sarah Silverman)1603503872.0

(H/T: Fox News)

Twitter tries to cancel Chris Pratt for being a Trump supporter. Reports say it's all because he isn't set to appear at a Biden fundraiser



Social media came for actor Chris Pratt this weekend, blasting him as a Trump supporter — and more — though he didn't do anything save for possibly declining an invite for an upcoming appearance at a Biden fundraiser.

What are the details?

Pratt, who has appeared to be largely apolitical, came under fire this weekend after TV writer Amy Berg — whose avatar is a picture of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wearing a set of boxing gloves — shared a four-split photo featuring the most popular Chrises of Hollywood: Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, and Chris Evans.

"One has to go," she wrote of the photo, and the tweet quickly went viral.

One has to go. https://t.co/HUWnbQOA43
— Amy Berg (@Amy Berg)1602971471.0

A large variety of social media users said that Pratt should be canceled because his support of President Donald Trump — which has never been confirmed — "disqualifies him."

One user wrote, "Chris Pratt. Sadly the Trump supporter stuff disqualifies him despite all the of delightful Andy Dwyer/Johnny Karate/Bert Macklin glory."

Another user added, "Dammit, I am literally just finding out that Chris Pratt is a trump supporter and I am so messed up behind that."

Though no users tweeted substantial information corroborating the claim that Pratt is a Trump supporter, the tweets continued.

"Chris Pratt being a MAGA dummy really was not something I was mentally prepared for," another user complained.

Yet another added, "Just learned Chris Pratt is a [T]rump supporter, let's end celebrities."

"[C]hris pratt's [social media] bio radiates homophobic white christian supremacist energy," another user wrote.

What else?

According to a Monday Newsweek report, one thing fans are "saying is a major telltale of Pratt's politics" is the fact that he is not, at the time of this reporting, set to take part in an "Avengers" fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

"Some of Pratt's fellow Marvel colleagues — Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, and Zoe Saldana — are due to join the Democratic candidate and vice-presidential hopeful Kamala Harris for a virtual event on October 20 to raise money for the Biden campaign," the outlet reports.

The event, called "Voters Assemble: The Cast of The Avengers Unite for Democracy," will gather the cast of "Avengers" as they "unite for democracy."

"Pratt's name is missing from the lineup, as are several other Marvel stars," the outlet points out.

Other stars who do not appear in the lineup but have not been dragged across social media as a result include Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr.

According to Vanity Fair, "While there was broad interest in the latest star-studded push for the Biden campaign," Pratt's "absence ... caused the biggest stir on social media."

"Shortly after the event was announced, Chris Pratt's name trended on Twitter, with many criticizing the Guardians of the Galaxy star for his perceived political views," the outlet added.

According to Open Secrets, Pratt donated to the campaigns of former President Barack Obama in 2007 and 2012 and former presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) in 2019.

In 2017, Pratt insisted that he doesn't particularly feel represented by either Democrats or Republicans.

In an interview with Men's Health, the A-list actor said, "I don't feel represented by either side."

"I really feel there's common ground out there that's missed because we focus on the things that separate us," he explained to the popular men's magazine. "You're either the red state or the blue state, the left or the right. Not everything is politics. And maybe that's something I'd want to help bridge, because I don't feel represented by either side."

What else?

Pratt took fire earlier in October after jokingly asking fans to vote for his newest animated film, "Onward."

“With all that's going on in the world it is more important than ever that you vote. Just ask any celebrity. They will tell you. Every day. Several times a day. To vote. But me? I will tell you EXACTLY who to vote for," he wrote, pointing to his film.