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This is one of the worst pieces I've ever read; you were so busy fapping off in terrible prose to the thought of Cormac McCarthy that you ignored the woman struggling with being groomed in front of you.

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Everyone, the Good Ally is here! Bros shudder in his wake! The Good Ally is available for late night discussions, ladies....

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What do you think you're accomplishing here? What is the moral valence of your engagement? Or do you think this is 2018 and this is going to get you a staff writer job somewhere?

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Lol, awesome. Thanks, Freddie. Somebody has to give these cancel ghouls some well deserved shit.

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No one ever gets canceled. It is made up. That never happens.

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You're joking, right?

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No it is briefly mentioned in this film at the beginning but if you know of anyone that has fundamentally suffered because of being cancelled please feel free to list them, it is a very common trope for conservative comedians to get attention mostly at this point

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_i0b7ZSvwp/

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Jesus Christ, man. My brother's depression was significantly exacerbated by the culture these people embraced for years before he killed himself. I'm in contact with somebody who's brother's suicide was even more directly related to the whims of the cancel mob. Go fuck yourself. You've found exactly the wrong person to spout this reality denying nonsense at.

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Well whatever you're avoiding mentioning sounds like bullying and harassment, frankly, and not like how you can't make fun of some minority anymore. Or talk about abuse without people replying with disingenuous rhetoric apparently.

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What does it take for people like you to get it through your thick skulls that *cancel culture is a form of social abuse?*

Good luck, man. I'm hitting the mute button.

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I looked up a post where you mention cancellation and it turns out it was big publicity for her film and distribution starts soon? https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/300-a-tale-of-cancellation

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Your dislike of cancel culture doesn't magically mean people shouldn't be held accountable for doing terrible things. And choosing to interpret the story of an adult man in his 40's, grooming and statutorily raping a highly vulnerable teenage girl as "romantic" in one of the biggest magazines on the planet is indeed, a bad thing.

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Imagine being so much more concerned about the faux societal consequences for groomers and rapists than their actual victims, that you're willing to write about it publicly. Wow.

A convicted rapist just got elected President. Vanity Fair published an entire article that attempts to paint grooming and statutory rape as "romantic" by some male fanboi author whose first priority was clearly cosplaying their literary cowboy fantasies.

I've said it once, I'd say it again. If those quickest to defend my work held these kinds of beliefs, I'd stop writing completely. Is this really who you want your core audience to be, VB? Not sure if Incels have their own version of the Pulitzer or whatever, but godspeed I guess?

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"I'm going to stand up for those defending the normalization of the grooming and statutory rape of a highly vulnerable young woman by portraying it as a great love story" really makes you a martyr of the people.

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I mean, he's completely right. But I suspect it's important that you ignore the realities of grooming for personal reasons, so I get why you're so embarrassingly defensive in your reply.

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Great response, Freddie!

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Do incel circle jerks give out literary awards? Asking for a friend.

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Lol do you even know what they meant ?? Haha

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DonтАЩt you have a fake тАЬUyghur genocideтАЭ story to write about James?

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This is an astounding whataboutism and we should also make an equally important whataboutism like what about this low value comment by a person with the default pfp but reading about the actual topic is probably more productive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

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