'Cancel culture in a nutshell': Blue-check lib who joked about cats in Thai food says she's grown

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 You basically say that the bad tweet you posted no longer represents who you are and you have grown, but why do you think Shane Gillis and others deserved his punished and ignore the possibility that they had also grown/learned?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

'Cancel culture in a nutshell': Blue-check lib who joked about cats in Thai food says she's grown

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