22 dez 2021 ano - THE TELEGRAPH How cancel culture came to define 2021 – and the casualties it left behind

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How cancel culture came to define 2021 – and the casualties it left behind

by Alex Diggins & Ella Whelan

In 2020, cancel culture was a new term for many. In 2021 'cancellation' is one of our biggest fears. What changed, and who has it claimed?

When asked if cancel culture really exists on BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show last week, Jon Snow answered: “I really am not conscious of it at all.” The Channel 4 News veteran said that “people exaggerate the extent to which there is some sort of a battle going on, I don’t really think there is.” If the number of high-profile rows over cultural cancellations have slipped under Snow’s radar, perhaps his days on the desk really are over. Or perhaps his assertion that cancel culture is really just a big fuss about nothing is a sign of how contested the issue of free speech remains.

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Johnny Depp

Few stars exemplify this shift quite like Depp. Once, he was the incarnation of bad-boy cool, trading on his tattoos and guy-liner to prop up franchises like Pirates of the Caribbean. Now, he cuts a lonely and isolated figure in the film industry. After losing a libel case against the Sun in 2020, in which the judge found allegations that he was a “wifebeater” in his marriage to Amber Heard to be “substantially true”, he claims to have faced a Hollywood “boycott”. His latest film Minamata, a biopic of the photographer Eugene Smith, has been “buried” because of its association with Depp, according to its director. And he has been replaced with Mads Mikkelsen as Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts franchise.

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