I initially wrote this in the “guy caught cheating at Coldplay concert and social media loses its mind” thread, but on reflection, it’s a better fit here.
Being placed on leave is usually a necessary preliminary step to being cancelled fired, especially in high-profile cases. Cancel culture strikes again!
Please note that I am not defending the guy. What I’m saying is that there’s a lot about this situation that we don’t know. But apparently social media knows all, and they’re out to get him, because that’s what social media does in the cancel culture world.
The guy was embracing a female colleague at a concert. Were they having an affair? Probably. Was that wrong? Not if his marriage was already on the rocks. Maybe they were already contemplating a divorce. Maybe they were already separated. We don’t know. But cancel culture doesn’t care. And it may very well have destroyed the guy’s career. Was such a consequence justified? Again, I refer to these three words: we don’t know.
Maybe an investigation will exonerate him, echoing the findings in the Chris Hardwick case. But the evidence in his defense would have to be very strong given the tsunami of negative social media commentary against him.