I'm sorry, but I just don't see the backlash as being a crisis or some threat to public discourse, especially since people on every side of every debate wallow in so-called "cancel culture" when it suits them. I suspect you are a White person who can take the slightly removed, purely intellectual approach that people like me who actually are affected immensely by the implications of Rogan's offhand comments and ones like it don't have the luxury to take. These comments that you gloss over presumably because cancel culture is so much more sinister are far more pervasive and dangerous than you can imagine by paying attention to the latest trending story. You don’t care about the specifics of the Rogan incident perhaps because you are more likely to be affected by the boogeyman cancel culture than you are likely to be subject to racism bred by the ape analogy that has been destroying Black people long before “cancel culture” made White people even think about it (and then handily cast it aside because they don’t care about the specifics of it). As I've said in several recent essays, I have bigger fish to fry. Now excuse me while I turn up the stove.
P.S. Before you make assumptions about my mindset, you probably should read what I wrote about the subject. In my opinion, whether Rogan is racist or not is almost beside the point (but I wouldn't be as quick to suggest he isn't, as you seemed to do in your initial piece).
