I'm choking on these words as I write them...

Stop joining in on the Whoopi bashing bandwagon.

Now before you click "unsubscribe" or "unfollow" because you now label me an antisemite, far-left loving Marxist, hear me out.

First off, let me state for the record...I cannot stomach Whoopi Goldberg. While she was epic in Ghost (long live Patrick Swayze and the love story of the century), I find her quite revolting. Loud, bossy, brash, ideological and dim-witted are terms that come to mind when I hear her name. The View is arguably one of the worst things to happen to daytime television, and the women's movement, considering it's ratings are fed by women, who are at home, without anything better to do with themselves at 11am, so by default aren't championing the cause of the women's empowerment movement. A show made up solely of women hosts, ogling their like-minded, far left, dreamy male actor and politician guests, talking over one another like a gaggle of geese, while profiting off of stay at home women, without lives, in the name of empowerment. Absolutely priceless humor.

The world would be a better place without these women speaking at all. But, do I want to cancel them? Certainly not.

Cancel culture is the modern day, adult version of "I'm telling my mom on you,' but with far greater consequences. People do not deserve to lose their jobs because they say things we don't like. People will inevitably say really stupid shit but that doesn't mean you get to destroy their reputations or livelihood. When are we going to allow people to make mistakes and move on? If we plan to judge everyone's entirety of character by ignorant things they've said, I hate to tell you but you're toast!

If an employer deems an employee's speech to be offensive enough to warrant reprimand, so be it. But that decision shouldn't be made in response to a mob mentality. If ABC wants to send Whoopi a message that she needs to think before she says truly heinous, down right ignorant things, that's their prerogative. But if YOU think people should be able to make mistakes and not lose their jobs for it, you had better step off this bandwagon.

My hope is this is a wake up call to people like Whoopi, her fellow cancellers, those on the so-called "right" and "left." We need to stop the childish, "I'm telling mom on you" bullshit. If you want freedom of speech to be patrolled by mobs, you had better be careful to whom you are farming out that duty. They inevitably will be coming for you one day. Do you really want people to only say what you agree with? Do you really want to hand over the power of controlling speech to people who share only one thing in common, political ideology?

I personally have faith in individuals to make decisions for themselves. Each of us are more than capable of deciding if we want to listen to the hens on The View, tune into Joe Rogan's podcast, or God forbid listen to music by Neil Young.

You're an adult. You don't need a mob to silence things that are hurting your snowflake ears. You either support cancel culture or you don't; you can't have it both ways.

Disclaimer: if I have offended you with this piece, I'm not sorry. I don't care and I also probably made you think. That's a win!