When Wokeness Goes Off the Rails, People Suffer, America Suffers Part II: The Destructiveness of the Cancel Culture Train

A few months ago, I wrote about the false allegations of racism levied by several hundred Jeopardy! contestants against recent, Kelley Donohue.

In a letter written to producers of Jeopardy!, the former contestants said Donohue’s holding up of three fingers, signifying his three wins, signified something else: white supremacy. They stated that it served as a “racist dog whistle” and were appalled that he had not publicly apologized for it and had not disavowed white supremacy. Donohue did both after the letter was publicized. He didn’t need to. He had to. Or else!

A couple of weeks later, American Idol finalist, 16-year-old Caleb Kennedy, was forced to leave the show after a three-second video surfaced of him standing beside a person who was wearing a white hood. He was twelve at the time. Twelve! He is in a three-second video clip, wearing a t-shirt and cap, sitting beside another kid wearing a white t-shirt and a homemade white hood. The context is assumed, which is:

Since Kennedy is sitting beside a person with a white hood on, assumed to represent the Ku Klux Klan, Kennedy must be a racist. I know he doesn’t say anything in the video. I know he isn’t wearing a hood. I realize that the person in the hood doesn’t say anything. I realize we have no context nor did we attempt to find any. I realize none of us has ever met Kennedy, much less spoken to him. But…