Director Paul Schrader Talks Cancel Culture

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“Careers have ended not because of criminal charges but because of personal ones, whether it be Kevin Spacey, Scott Rudin, Johnny Depp. They’ve gotten caught up in cancel culture. Cancel culture is infectious, it’s like the Delta virus.” - Paul Schrader

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- Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) September 1,

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[sandstorm]

What Is This Man Saying https://t.co/K77ouscRq3 pic.twitter.com/JvVUK1ISmv
- Jezebel (@Jezebel) August 3, 2021

[aotearoagal]

And why should we care?

[josiefier]

So what's he done that's got him so scared, hmm? 👀

[hotdoggoz]

Whoop there it is

did Paul Schrader get kicked out of the poker club I’m in for saying extremely inappropriate shit to me, and in general? yes https://t.co/iB4psHdaBB
- Liz Maupin (@LizMaupin) September 1, 2021

[xiixivmcmxc]

Shut up, old.

[veggie]

hmmm!! shut the fuck up ♥

[agentsoup]

This asshole is doing everything possible to make me skip an Oscar Isaac movie.

From Schraders THR yesterday (apparently excuses are only acceptable for Rudin, Depp, Spacey wonder why):

"That makes for a very interesting kind of character, particularly in our current society where everything is excused. “I didn’t do a bad thing, I just made a mistake.” “I misspoke.” “I didn’t really mean it.” Everybody has an excuse. But I came up in a Calvinist background where there are no excuses. You’re born soaked with sin and that’s that. You can’t say, “God misspoke.”

[sandstorm]

I was already going to [redacted] it and now I certainly will.

[sunk]

"where everything is excused." So... wait. People (men, he means men) are being "cancelled" and their careers ruined or whatever for no reason apparently, but also everything is excused? If everything is excused, how/why are being being cancelled? It can't be both, so which is it? Or is it one or the other depending on who you're trying to demonize or defend at any given time? (Spoiler: yes, it is.)