Can we talk about how Reddit loves to cancel people for jokes from 2012

Last week I saw a thread digging up a comedian's old tweet about a sandwich and calling it racist. The tweet was literally just 'I hate when my turkey sub falls apart,' which is something I deal with on job sites daily. Why do we treat 12 year old jokes like they tell us everything about someone's character today?

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gavin46910d ago

Oh come on, you're really gonna defend that old tweet? That sandwich joke is obviously a coded attack on basic lunch integrity. Listen, 2012 was a different time but that doesn't mean we can't hold people accountable for their past sandwich opinions. If someone was careless enough to tweet about a falling-apart turkey sub back then, who knows what other culinary crimes they're capable of now. The internet doesn't forget, and frankly it shouldn't have to.

murray.cora9d ago

Three years ago I watched a whole subreddit try to cancel a 60 year old plumber for a tweet he wrote in 2011 about how he didn't like kale. It was so ridiculous because the guy literally just said "kale tastes like yard scraps" and people were acting like he was pushing some kind of vegetable agenda. @gavin469, I get that you're trying to make a funny point about the turkey sub thing, but the real issue here is that people are cherry picking old jokes out of context and acting like they are criminal confessions. The internet has this weird way of freezing people in time, where a stupid one-liner from a decade ago becomes the only thing that matters about them. It feels lazy to me because it ignores that people actually grow and change, you know? If we all got judged by our dumbest throwaway thought from 2012, none of us would look good.