Blue-check writer and comedian Ellory Smith says she’s grown and is no longer the 17-year-old who tweeted that she didn’t put her cat in her homemade pad thai:
https://twitter.com/ellorysmith/status/1373751926051934208
However, just a few days ago she tweeted that “hateful jokes beget violence” and “they minimize and they dehumanize and they allow for the normalization of terror”:
https://twitter.com/ellorysmith/status/1372224338716356614
Note: She’s talking about Shane Gillis here:
The recent firing of Shane Gillis from #SNL has comedians divided https://t.co/jLWcMM5nKy
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 28, 2019
But after dehumanizing Asians by joking that they eat cats, she wants everyone to know that “progressivism is a journey.” Except for Shane Gillis, that is:
https://twitter.com/ellorysmith/status/1373752005466804226
And she’s left the white supremacy behind, she says:
https://twitter.com/ellorysmith/status/1373759891022614528
For starters, she makes no sense:
Sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. You basically say that the bad tweet you posted no longer represents who you are and you have grown, but why do you think Shane Gillis and others deserved his punished and ignore the possibility that they had also grown/learned? https://t.co/Z1vBE6Q5mu
— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 21, 2021
And why not just apologize?
How about an apology rather than spinning this as your own personal triumph? https://t.co/wXMrd3PkXk
— Dean Van Nguyen (@deanvannguyen) March 21, 2021
Who actually decides about these journeys? Why should she be forgiven while Alexi McAmmond isn’t?
TLDR: “I deserve to be forgiven but no one else does”
Cancel culture in a nutshell https://t.co/MtQeyngKvk
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 22, 2021
And, sorry, we don’t make the rules. She’s canceled:
It’s not up to you to determine if you are no longer racist, Ellory. You made a racist remark that enabled and helped to cultivate the atmosphere of violence against Asians. https://t.co/k15gbgP8ds
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 22, 2021
So you should be forgiven, but no one else? Nah, lmao. https://t.co/ChUb8MajX3
— Biden Voters Posting Their L's Online (@BidenLs) March 21, 2021
It's not cancel culture, it's being held to account for your bad behavior. https://t.co/maZjG1ESYK
— Impressive, Piece of Sh*t Sensuround ?️? (@sound_hologram) March 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/MattDeLuca/status/1373782393107152897
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