# ViacomCBS fires Nick Cannon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415 "2020-07-15T15:38:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/1 "2020-07-15T15:38:02Z")
For anti semite comments > ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/2 "2020-07-15T21:54:53Z")
Damn Rothschilds finally got him. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/3 "2020-07-16T02:42:33Z")
I’m more shocked that any business had any deal with this irrelevant nobody to begin with, I mean I just assumed he died after Mariah divorced his ass. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/4 "2020-07-16T07:05:11Z")
Bad move, Nick. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/5 "2020-07-16T23:12:08Z")
Fox has not fired him from Masked Singer yet ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/6 "2020-07-17T18:01:41Z")
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0x0v9ndg8](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0x0v9ndg8) Here is what he actually said stuff I’ve heard before from a certain strain of black supremacists Basically melanin makes you magic and have empathy, white people are melanin deficient and thus evil mutants that are savage animals that must kill others out of jealousy over their melanin or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/7 "2020-07-17T22:16:42Z")
He also said, “The Masked Singer” host also disputed that such views were anti-Semitic because, Cannon said, Black people are the “true Hebrews.” “It’s never hate speech. You can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people,” he said. “When we are the same people who they want to be. That’s our birthright. We are the true Hebrews.” > **[Nick Cannon let go by ViacomCBS over anti-Semitic comments | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/entertainment/nick-cannon-viacom-trnd/index.html)** > > ViacomCBS is ending a decades-long relationship with Nick Cannon after he recently made anti-Semitic comments on his podcast. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/8 "2020-07-17T22:19:54Z")
Weird that the anti-Semitic part is in all the headlines when in a lot of the conversation he was just talking about white people as a group. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/9 "2020-07-17T22:30:02Z")
> **[Rabbi: Cannon 'genuinely concerned' after apology, meeting](https://apnews.com/article/199813597a41f3ac6c7ab799623c7257)** > > A prominent rabbi who met with Nick Cannon says the television host and producer is “genuinely concerned about the hurt” he caused by making anti-Semitic remarks, and they intend to work together to reject hate. > [@](#): > > “He appears to be someone who’s genuine in his desire to make sure people understand his apology,” Cooper told The Associated Press. > > “But also … not to move forward saying, ‘OK, I have to go back to my regular things, thank you for helping to give me a lifeline after this terrible error.’ That wasn’t it. The thrust was: ’OK. Now, what do we do? How do we roll up our sleeves? What can we do together?’” > > Cooper said that he’s confident that Cannon will use his wide-ranging social media presence to talk openly about mistakes, fight for social justice and reject messages of hate. > > “It could have a very, very positive impact on young people” Cooper said. > [@](#): > > Apologizing in a series of posts on Twitter, Cannon said his words “reinforced the worst stereotypes of a proud and magnificent people and I feel ashamed of the uninformed and naïve place that these words came from.” > > Cannon said the apology came after discussions with Jewish leaders. He thanked Cooper and assured the Jewish community that it was just the beginning of his education. > > “I am committed to deeper connections, more profound learning and strengthening the bond between our two cultures today and every day going forward,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacomcbs-fires-nick-cannon/915415/10 "2020-07-18T03:22:50Z")
Hmmm I wonder if he’ll apologize for calling white people animals that are lower than “melanated”(sic) people. It’s especially odd since his ex wife is half white and his children are also partially white.