Not for nothing but what does that say about our culture/ us?
I understand this is accusatory but we (and maybe I'm just speaking for myself) let Kells slide for a long *** time.
There's been an uptick in the protect black women/ black people movement in the last couple of years.
Where do his actions fit in?
There needs to be a board. There neess to be a scale to these things.
There's actual predators out there then there's misunderstandings then there's bad acts.
If Joe did something like this while working for Complex or Revolt he'd get checked for it but he's running his own thing at the JBN and there aint no human resources (a nasty ***** like Mal would let all that slide).
If this were ran by this Joe would be fined or suspended, forced to go to a sexual harassment class and he'd be back to work in a week. Instead Olivia felt forced to quit. In a traditional business setting she would sue on top of that.
The whole reason cancel culture started was cuz predators were getting away with this for decades, victims were ignored, and the these dude saw no consequences. So fans got loud and started using social media and there money to hurt perpetrators.
Something like this shouldn't be left up to ppl who only have the most extreme recourse to use. So it's really hard to say.
I don't think it says anything about us cuz really we aint suppose to be the ones in charge of this not do we have the appropriate solutions to it.
Its not like listeners are all gonna band together and decide not to listen to the pod for a month to hurt Joe's pockets.
But I dunno one thing part of cancel culture is that a lot of companies are quick to back the punishment of certain ppl committing certain bad acts so maybe cashapp cancels their deal or patreon does.
