Sharon Osbourne is latest member of cancel culture club
X Factor star’s talk show is taken off air and she’s hit by death threats for supporting Piers Morgan
SHARON OSBOURNE has been forced to hire her own security after receiving a series of death threats for backing Piers Morgan.
The Brit leapt to the former Good Morning Britain host’s defence after he said he didn’t believe what Meghan Markle told Oprah Winfrey about suffering mental health issues while living with the royal family.
It led to a clash on Sharon’s US chat show The Talk – it’s like America’s answer to Loose Women – between her and cohost Sheryl Underwood, which prompted accusations of racism with the chat show being taken off air due to an investigation.
Since then, the 68-year-old has been flooded with social media comments, including one that told her to “die and go to hell”. It is yet another bid to have someone ‘cancelled’ for saying something others don’t agree with.
Within this brave new woke world, no one is safe. Whether it be something said now or in the past, having a different opinion leaves anyone open to the baying Twitter mob.
Sharon is the latest member of the cancel culture club, joining the likes of JK Rowling, in daring to say what they believe.
In America we have just seen how the cancel movement has become more powerful than the devil in Prada herself, Anna Wintour.
Two years ago, Alexi McCammond, 27, was named one to watch, singled out as an emerging journalist of 2019 by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Wintour recently handed her the job as Teen Vogue’s editor-in-chief. But just as she was set to take her office, tweets she made back when she was a foolish, ignorant 17-yearold cost her her dream job.
McCammond had made disparaging posts about Asians while a teenager in school. After the tweets resurfaced 10 years later, she issued a lengthy apology and promised to do better.
It was not enough.
It later turned out a senior Teen Vogue staffer who posted a letter expressing concern about McCammond for her past tweets had herself used the N-word on the social media site 10 years ago.
If we’re going to live in a society where someone can’t be given the opportunity to learn at such a young age, what does that say about the world?
A magazine aimed at teens and pre-teens should acknowledge that the entire point of being a teenager is to make and correct the most mortifying errors of your life before becoming an adult.
We all say things that we’ve had to apologise for, but is this how we want to live, when we cancel people entirely for one mistake?
Take Sharon’s case – sticking up for a friend is now deemed so serious, by some, they think she deserves to die for it.
What is the world coming to?