Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I’m reminded of the fate of an actor named Hartley Sawyer, who had a supporting role on The Flash. Until last year, that is, when someone sifted through his tweets and found one he’d made eight years previously and raised a fuss.
Sawyer, a teen at the time, had responded to a friend’s remark by saying something along the lines of “I could say something about that, but it’d probably be considered racist”. That was the tweet that got him fired from his job and probably ruined his career in Hollywood.
It’s interesting that someone had to sift through eight years of the guy’s tweets to find something that wasn’t even actually racist, and then make a firing offense out of a tweet he’d made when he was a kid.
I suspect that his peers in Hollywood took note of his ruin, and have redoubled their efforts to toe the Left’s party line and not draw similar attention to their social media. Which was likely the precise reason the unfortunate Sawyer was so publicly, arbitrarily canceled over nothing— per encourager les autres.
Correction: I went back and checked, and it turns out that Sawyer was in his twenties when he tweeted the words that got him fired years later. Also, while the guy is unmarried he also tweeted a mother-in-law joke, so he was also accused of misogyny…
It’s disturbing that life can so closely mimic a Dilbert cartoon.
The Arrowverse seems to be going the way of Nineveh and Tyre with minuscule ratings. Judging from his tweets Sawyer seems like a jerk when he wrote them. Of course if being a jerk was enough to destroy an acting career, almost all actors and actresses would now be brushing up on their server skills for advancement in their careers of being waiters and waitresses.
Comic in question.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-07-06
It also helps to have the one before.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-07-05
Scott Adams might be a loonie in many ways, but he is a real expert when it comes to office politics, rhetoric and crowd psychology. Just don’t ask him about God or truth.