How Ashton Kutcher Stepped into the Perfect Cancel Culture Trap
'That '70s Show' alum defied the woke mob ... so they dug through his dirt
There’s a good reason material “resurfaces” on social media.
It’s payback time.
The latest example? Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis penned letters of support for fellow “That ’70s Show” alum Danny Masterson. The actor was convicted on two counts of rape earlier this month and faces a total of 30 years in prison.
Kutcher and Kunis, now married, pleaded with the judge to be lenient during the sentencing phase of the trial, presuming their letters wouldn’t be leaked to the press.
Too late.
Both spoke positively about their time working with Masterson and said he helped them steer clear of some of Hollywood’s more seductive elements, like drugs.
Once news of their support hit the web, the married stars produced an apology video via Instagram.
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Their actions dumped chum in the social media waters regardless of one’s take on the letter-writing campaign. And the social justice sharks quickly swam to the scene.
For Kutcher, that meant a 20-year-old clip from his show “Punk’d” “resurfaced” in which he jokingly described waiting for pretty, under-age stars like the Olsen twins and Hillary Duff to turn 18.
Crude? Yes. Why bring it up now? Cancel Culture, that’s why.
And there’s more.
Another clip “resurfaced” in which Kutcher admitted to kissing Kunis, then 14, on the set of “That ’70s Show” following a dare proposed by Masterson.
In the viral clip, Kunis reveals that Masterson once bet Kutcher $10 to French kiss her while filming an episode of their Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show.” The actors are in good spirits about the incident, but the clip has amassed over four million views and counting in the days after Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life for rape.
This Cancel Culture two-step requires unofficial coordination. Part one happens on social media, of course.
The second part?
News outlets eager to spread the word about the “outrage” without any sense of perspective, echoing the faux alarm over events that happened long ago. If no one cared at the time, why should anyone care now?
It’s simple. Cancel culture.
It’s relentless, unforgiving and meant to inflict maximum professional harm on the target. The passage of time doesn’t matter. Whether Kunis was offended then, or now, is also immaterial. Nor do the Olsen twins or Duff have any say in the matter.
No one is actually outraged by events we collectively shrugged at 20-plus years ago. It’s a form of performance art. Nothing more.
The woke mob wants to punish Kutcher for penning that letter. We’ll have to wait and see if they get a new social media scalp in the process.
I simply don’t care what the Woke mob thinks or says…it’s that simple.
Of course blame conservatives. Nothing serious can be done on the Right while they are all over the place. It’s inexplicable how some take time and energy to fight the leading personality – Trump – instead of maybe holding their nose and benefit from his prominence to accomplish at least some goals. Republicans: I’m done giving to anyone who doesn’t support Trump, and if you keep it up I’m done voting.
1st rule of cancel culture. Never never ever apologize to the mob. Tell them to fuck off then move on. There is no other way to win. No way to appease them.
They can be appeased by offering free helicopter flying lessons, though.
Spot on. Once the leftoids figure out you’re not going to “bend the knee” to their ridiculous whining, they eventually move on softer targets.
Who cares? They are both baby murdering child grooming liberal filth. This is the world they voted for and advocate for ! The Spanish soccer coach that kissed the player “without consent” was made to RESIGN EVEN AFTER VIDEO SURFACED OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE “OFFENDED PLAYERS” LAUGHING THEIR COLLECTIVE BUTTS OFF AND TEASING HIM TO KISS HER AGAIN!!! Lot’s more casualties to follow BUT IT’S CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR THE ROT IN OUR SOCIETY.
Conservatives of the past WOULD HAVE TAKEN SOME GUY IN A WIG AND FAKE TITS PRETENDING TO BE A “WOMAN” and showing up at a SCHOOL talking about “TEACHING ” SOME EFFING BODY AND rendered such filth ROOM TEMP. The conservatives we are STUCK WITH who have dropped EVERY BALL and conserved ABSOLUTELY NOTHING are the ones at fault. LIBERALS HAVE BEEN IMMORAL PIECES OF HUMAN FILTH DESERVING ONLY “unaliveness ” SINCE MOSES CAME DOWN WITH THE TABLETS AND STEPPED ON AN ORGY!!!
But throughout history there was an OPPOSING FORCE that kept liberals in check , largely by rendering their crazy asses “unalive” . Conservatives of this generation actually DEBATE the month in which it’s OKAY TO KILL A BABY!!
Go back to Reddit, you evil bigot. Stop blaming everything on conservatives.
He’s right. Conservatives have made mountains out of molehills with their fake moral outrage.
Principled conservatives who take the high road and constantly state that they simply want to be left alone is what got us here.
Note the leftist infiltration of all institutions. Government, media, art, science, medicine, psychology, even computer games, and on and on.
There is even a term for it; The long march through the institutions coined by a German leftist:
From Wikipedia:
The long march through the institutions (German: der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen) is a slogan coined by socialist student activist Rudi Dutschke around 1967 to describe his strategy for establishing the conditions for revolution: subverting capitalist domination of society by entering institutions such as the professions.
Conservatives shouldn’t really complain about the state we are in.
They practically handed the keys to the kingdom to the lunatics on a silver platter.
You should probably not generalize the term conservative as your target…be more specific and use the terms uniparty it rinos..with that correction then I will agree with you post 100%