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Why Alex Jones Needs To Be Cancelled
Alex Jones cares about making money, that’s all
Alex Jones has been in the news quite a bit recently, to the point where people who were unaware of him before, may have a better sense of who he is. And who is he? A terrible person. Before I tell you why we should cancel him, I think it’s important to touch on the fact that rarely are people cancelled in the way the media that leans a certain direction would have you believe.
Mel Gibson is still making movies, Roman Polanski won an Oscar, decades into his exile, and Woody Allen is… still alive. Me Too swept through Hollywood, and the majority of those men are still working. Some of them didn’t even take a break.
The point is — no matter how awful you are if you have enough money, power, or fame, there’s a good chance you can hire an excellent PR firm to erase all of it from our collective memory.
Like, who remembers reading about that one star who spent the 80s trashing hotel rooms and assaulting photographers and then landed a mega-deal with a wholesome family company and suddenly everyone forgot about their history of violence?
Anyway, one of the most effective ways to “cancel” someone is by de-platforming them. It worked with Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, and Owen Benjamin. And with Alex…
