Cancel culture would surely get rid of the Frozen songwriters and Josh Gad for their offensive portrayals of Africa, if they "uncovered" it.
Also do you think cancel culture is cool with Randy Newman singing the N Word? Cause they are totally good at putting things in context right?
I mean, I'd argue at least some of those "cancel culture" people are better at putting things in context than some people having these unending diatribes about cancel culture (along with the implication that all of cancel culture is a bunch of bored idiots going out of their way to be offended that cannot ever have any valid or legitimate points) in these threads.
So in regards to the Frozen songwriters, you're saying that absolutely no one followed two popular, Tony-winners for Best Musical from the last two decades (Avenue Q, which closed within the past few years, and Book of Mormon, which is still running) and never put it together that the most popular animated film of the decade had music written by the same person and no Disney fan has any idea they exist? That the only response to them sharing any people at all with Frozen can be foaming at the mouth and demanding immediate cancellation of everything and everyone involved? Again, I don't see rational people arguing such things.
What makes the Randy Newman situation different from, say, the SOTS/Splash situation is that Randy Newman has never attempted to hide or deny the existence of those songs, unlike Disney with SOTS. Material that has never been hidden or denied tends to be more likely to be ignored than material that has been locked up (much like that post I made in the other thread regarding other Disney movies and their own content that in some cases arguably exceeds anything SOTS does yet have generally remained less controversial). I doubt that the songs would be written today, to be sure. Maybe it could be said that both those songs and SOTS had good intentions, but I'd argue that it's clear Randy Newman was more successful in reaching his target (disparaging the Rednecks who use that word freely and enforce that negative status quo) vs. SOTS, which tries to make a nice inclusive movie handicapped by the unintentional tonedeafness of the people who put the movie together. By contrast, Randy Newman clearly has a better understanding of the situation regardless of the words being used. To me that's not an equivalent situation, even if both could be argued to be problematic. In the case of these songs vs. SOTS, as with many other things in life, actions speak louder than words.
Serious question: would anyone really be offended if there was less Josh Gad in the world? Not for offense reasons, but personal taste reasons. Not that I'm advocating "cancelling" him for some arbitrary reason; however, there's just something about him that just irks me.
