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Lizzo: Cancel culture is 'appropriation' — it's 'trendy and misused'
 [NYPOST] To borrow one of her song titles: "Truth Hurts."Lizzo, 34, took to social media Sunday morning to share her thoughts on cancel culture. The outspoken "About Damn Time" singer argued that cancel culture has "become trendy" and diminishes more serious issues. "This may be a random time to say this but it’s on my heart ... cancel culture is appropriation," she tweeted. "There was real outrage from truly marginalized people and now it’s become trendy, misused and misdirected." She continued, "I hope we can phase out of this & focus our outrage on the real problems." Last summer, Lizzo came under fire for using an "ableist" term in her song "Grrrls." Disability advocates on social media slammed the singer for the use of the word "sp-z" — a common American slang for the term "spastic" to mean "going crazy" or "freaking out," but is highly offensive in UK and aimed to belittle people with cerebral palsy. Related: Cancel culture: 2022-12-10 Detroit School Board Trying To Cancel Dr. Ben Carson By Removing His Name From A School Cancel culture: 2022-12-09 Twitter's secret 'blacklist': Second tranche of bombshell internal files reveal how conservative commentators were marked 'do not amplify' and COVID lockdown skeptics 'shadow banned' to stop accounts and topics trending Cancel culture: 2022-12-02 Arlington Confederate Monument to be Destroyed-The Left Hates Endlessly Posted by: Fred 2023-01-10 |
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