Cancelled culture for something so
progressive, isn't very inclusive. Hi guys,
what's up? It's been a while. If you don't
know who I am, I'm Graice, and I'm gonna
talk about something really original, no one's ever spoken about this before, Romeo Lacoste. so I'm gonna
be talking about Romeo Lacoste but I'm also
gonna be talking about everybody else
who's been beaten down on Twitter these
days, like Shane Dawson
Olivia Jade, R Kelly, and people that
should have been, but haven't been,
cancelled. I'm also going to talk about
why canceled culture sucks and before
you, you know, jump in on your little
horses and... just hear me out okay? So
recently if you haven't heard by now, a
conversation held between Romeo Lacoste
and two girls under one name came in
to light even though it was held in 2016. I
think that's kind of sketchy in its own,
but the evidence is rock-hard, there's no
way that they didn't have these
conversations, and if that evidence
wasn't damning enough, he went on Keemstar's little drama alert show and
basically admitted everything which I'm
sure that wasn't his intent but....
unfortunately for him.... "I'm not gonna deny
that was real but here's-- here's the twi--"
Unfortunately for him, period.
That's the end of the sentence. Tirst and
foremost I just want to make a little
disclaimer if you are a pedophile or
anything similar right now burn in hell, we don't
defend pedophiles on this channel and
I don't want anybody to think that's
what I'm doing because I'm not doing
that and if you think that I'm doing
that you're wrong. However, I'm having an
issue with not how Lacoste
actions were treated per se but like how
his actions were treated against
everybody else's actions. Because, Lacoste
you know contrary to popular belief
isn't the worst person on this planet.
He's just one of the people that got
caught and got spoken about. He's like
not important enough to have people to
defend him but he also did something
really horrible that makes people hate
him. But in the words of Paige: "Keep that
same energy." Keep that same energy. He's
not the only person that has, you know,
done something of that nature and in
fact Lacoste's actions are kind of mild
when you compare them to other
celebrities, but unfortunately the
backlash wasn't. Now first let's give a
little preliminary of cancelled culture.
I have always hated it. I'm just a
really sympathetic person and I
understand that when people have flaws
it's really important to point out and
correct those flaws but people are also
human and they make mistakes. And so
every time I see somebody getting called
out on Twitter for something stupid that
they say I feel really bad because I say
stupid stuff all the time.
I just don't tweet it out. And so it's
just really the difference between like
how analytical and paranoid are you
about everything that you say? The people
who are really really really paranoid
about getting murdered on Twitter are
the ones that get rewarded, which I don't
really know if that's how our internet
culture should work. Especially when
canceled culture has a lot of room for
flaws, like in the case of Justine Sacco.
If you listen to a TED talk given in her
defense it actually explains a lot of
what went through her head and kind of
evokes a lot of sympathy for her
situation because she lost her entire
livelihood based off of that tweet. "I
met Justine a couple of weeks
later in a bar, she was just crushed and
I asked her to explain the joke and she
said, "Living in America puts us in a bit
of a bubble when it comes to what is
going on in the third world, I was making
fun of that bubble." And the bummer about
that is that the effects are
irreversible, she can't just like get
back up and be like 'hey that's not what
I meant at all' because the internet
doesn't really want to hear that. Unfortunately the internet feels like
attacking somebody else gives them like
a little bit of good karma because like
let's be honest, none of us are like
protectors of the world, guardians of the
galaxy, like our job isn't to better the
planet by quote-tweeting something and
condemning it. Deep down we're really doing
it because we all make mistakes but at
least our mistakes aren't as bad as this
guy's and let's all focus on this guy
instead of my own mistakes. So like I
don't never really participate in that
because I'm just like pretty much a
perfect human being if you haven't no--
Obviously there's gonna be some times
when canceled culture is wrong and
Lacoste's situation is not one of those times,
okay, we were correct he is a pedophile
he did send those messages he said it
himself he's also traumatized one of his
ex-girlfriend's that we know of.
There also might be victims that we
don't even know about that have suffered from Lacoste's
deeply concerning mental state, and so I
really just want to apologize to them.
But if we care about those victims, which
we should ,we should also care about
every other victim of sexual assault or
abuse that have been brought up.
especially [acts committed] by celebrities right? So then
why aren't we doing that? And in your
defense it's probably not your fault
because you're probably not even aware
of some of the celebrities that have
have allegations brought against them
because they are a lot bigger than Romeo
Lacoste for example, they have a lot more
money, and therefore a lot more presence
in the media and a lot more power to
filter out what is said about them. But
if you haven't heard about Chris Brown
by now then I don't know where you've been
living. Under a rock maybe? In the middle
of the ocean? I don't know, either way
that's a long time to be down there, I
hope you're okay. Kind of rhymed. And I
understand that Chris Brown has a bigger
fan base in he has a lot more talent
than Romeo Lacoste arguably-- I agree
with that, I used to love Chris Brown, but
now I completely boycott him because his
actions are undeniably atrocious and
nobody's talking about it enough. I don't
know if you guys watched the video by Gus
Johnson but you should, because some of
the stuff that I watched in that video
has never been brought into the public
eye, probably because of Chris Brown's
publishing team etc. If we are going to
attack people like Romeo Lacoste for
sexting young children which we should,
then we also need to bring it to light
the person that almost beat Rihanna,
another beloved and talented celebrity,
to death. If you haven't seen those
photos I'm not going to show them here
but what Chris Brown did is unexcusable
and the fact that he still has a career
is completely alarming to me. Another
example of this double standard is
Olivia Jade. Now I know
Olivier it hasn't committed anywhere
near the gravity that Romeo Lacoste or
Chris Brown has but she is actually
gaining followers and subscribers on
YouTube because of this which i think is
so bizarre. Laike I don't think it's
necessarily detrimental for people to be
following and supporting Olivia Jade
because she's not this horrible violent
person, but it's just enabling her rich
and privileged behavior and basically
telling her, "Yeah it's okay, what you did
is fine because your career is still
gonna be successful even after you bribed your
way into a college that students usually
have to work really hard to get into."
It wasn't even donations from her
parents or anything which is actually
usually pretty common in the world of
Ivy League schools, she photoshopped
herself onto an athletes face and then
pretended that she could row. If we're
subscribing to a person who was okay
with that, then we really need to rethink
our whole cancelled culture creed. And
the annoying part is it's not even
speculation. With Lacoste's case there's
actually more room for interpretation, at
least before he went and totally
spilled his guts on drama alert, then there
is with Olivia Jade and Chris Brown because
Olivia Jade and Chris Brown has had police
and FBI involvement in both of their
cases with concrete evidence stacked to
the roof, like there's no way that what
they did didn't happen, like they're
completely guilty 100% and we're still
kind of letting it slide, which is not
really okay! Like that's kind of a
backwards theology to have, especially
with issues of such gravity-- how many
times have I said gravity in this video?
And it's also backwards to analyze the
fact that the media outlets that dropped
Olivia Jane and Chris Brown's stories
respectively have had huge influences on
a lot of people whereas yellowchairr the
Twitter handle that released the
conversation between herself, her friend,
and Lacoste, only had like a thousand/two
thousand followers. So that means that we
had to work even harder to get Lacoste's
story to where it is right now. It
wouldn't have been that big if a lot of
people didn't care about it which they
obviously did. And you might be thinking
that I'm using three tired examples but
there are countless examples that nobody
talks about all the time.
Take for example Kodak black and xxx
Both of them are really
influential figures in the world of
hip-hop and I'm not discrediting their
talent or their beloved name in the
memory of their fans but they do have
sexual allegations brought against and
both in court and online and yet they
still have a career that's thriving. And
then if you compare that to R Kelly's
case which, I don't know the details or
the situation comparing the two, but I do
know that they're similar in nature, R
Kelly is losing a ton of subscribers and
getting a ton of hate which he should be,
I'm not saying that he shouldn't be, but
I'm also saying that these people over
here should be as well. It's that whole
"keep the same energy" kind of mentality.
It's like if a person's more likeable
they get off easier which is not how it
should be, I bet none of you have even
heard about the allegations brought
against James Franco and Morgan Freeman
because I hadn't. It literally took me two
minutes of research to figure it out
though. And the fact that I've never
heard it ever before in my whole life is
so disheartening to me because these are
really serious allegations. And it's not
because I want to hate on these people
and I want their careers to be destroyed,
it's just because these are crimes that
involve victims. And why are the victims
that are suffering from these really
popular stars that nobody wants to
condemn any less important than the
victims of Lacoste or anybody else
that's been cancelled through cancelled
cultural lately? I feel like the reason
that we don't want to attack these
people is because we don't know how to
sid at a happy medium. There is a way
that you can appreciate someone's
music and talent and also say, "Hey you
can't shoot people because that's
illegal." You have to look at people
objectively and I know that's like a
really arrogant thing for me to say
because I'm not perfect and nobody is,
but everybody has a friend that's like
kind of annoying and kind of rude but
you're still friends with them anyway,
because they're all around a good person
and they're kind of funny... that's how
literally everybody is. Everybody has
their flaws and everybody has their
strengths. Now some flaws override every
single talent that another person has
and those are the people that belong in
jail, but it's like we have this
all-or-nothing mentality.  Like either
this person is going to get destroyed
completely or we're just going to ignore
everything they've done wrong and that's
not the case and it never has been and
it never should be. What I'm saying is we
shouldn't be cherry-picking our target
for monthly cyber-target practice
based on the amount of followers they
have and their ratings on Google Play...
does anybody even use Google anymore I
don't even know what google play is.
Cancelled culture for something so progressive,
isn't very inclusive.
Every time that you've made a mistake
imagine if that was broadcasted and put
all across the internet and everybody
decided to attack you for it. Because I
promise I've said some things in my life
that would have totally gotten me
canceled if I had tweeted them out and
enough people saw it because we're all
stupid,
okay? I'm Stu--I'm probably the stupidest
person here. Because I'm the only person
here I'm home alone. That being said I'm
not saying that we should completely
ignore people that make mistakes. The
safest thing for you to do, in my opinion,
when somebody comes out with horrible accusations
against somebody is instead of tearing
down the accused,
lift up the victim of the accused. I
think that is just a more positive way
to deal with situations while still
bringing awareness to it, in addition to
not letting the person that committed a
crime get their 15 minutes of fame by
tweeting all of these things about them
and posting them on Instagram because
that only heightens their career like
we're seeing with Olivia Jade.
Another example and I hate to bring this
up, I know, I know, it's Laura Lee.
like Laura Lee, okay give me a give me a
second here. Just think about it for a
second though. She tweeted out something
racist a long time ago, we know a lot of
people who have tweeted out homophobic
or racist things or whatever that have
had careers that survive. The difference
between Laura Lee and like Kevin Hart
for instance is that Laura Lee was just
a really bad actor and that's it,
and she was in-genuine she didn't really
feel sorry, and you know that's her own
fault, but like the fact that she has her
whole career go down in a landslide
sewer gutter of horribleness and Chris
Brown gets to keep his because he's
really charming and can dance really
well, it's so rude to me like it's so
upsetting and it makes me want to throw up
because why? I'm not defending Laura Lee
I'm just upset that if Laura Lee has to
lose her career Chris Brown should lose
his too. Lift up victims, don't tear down
criminals. Tearing down criminals only
lifts up their career and makes them
more relevant. When somebody does
something wrong, and there's no victim,
then you shouldn't be talking about it
at all because that's only enabling the
person that said that thing. For instance
now we're talking about Kat Von D and
how she like talked about how she was
Mexican and that made her somehow not a
Nazi which has no really real relation
whatsoever but it didn't hurt anyone. Her
saying that it really only hurt herself
because she sounded like an idiot. And
the fact that people are like giving her
what she wants which is media presence,
is really... like, like be smarter than that
Give people fame for good things okay?
don't give people fame for being mean to
their mom, and for being that, and for
being that, okay? Don't give people--don't
give people the satisfaction. Hope you
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