Jennifer Aniston is sharing her thoughts on "cancel culture." In a new profile for The Wall Street Journal, the actress said, "I'm so over cancel culture. I probably just got canceled by saying that. I just don’t understand what it means…Is there no redemption? I don't know. I don't put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket."
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00:00 Jennifer Aniston is sharing her thoughts on cancel culture.
00:03 In a new profile for the Wall Street Journal, the actress said,
00:08 "I'm so over cancel culture. I probably just got cancelled by saying that. I just don't
00:13 understand what it means. Is there no redemption? I don't know. I don't put everybody in the Harvey
00:18 Weinstein basket." Of the disgraced producer, she added that she had her fair share of
00:22 uncomfortable moments with Weinstein. "He's not a guy you're like, 'God, I can't wait to hang out
00:27 with Harvey.' Never. You were actually like, 'Oh God, okay, suck it up.' I remember actually he
00:32 came to visit me on a movie, to pitch me a movie, and I do remember consciously having a person stay
00:37 in my trailer." According to the Journal, Weinstein told them, "Aniston never had any uncomfortable
00:42 instances with me." The number of celebrities that have criticized cancel culture is getting
00:47 pretty long, from Lizzo to Chris Rock to Cate Blanchett, just to name a few. Yet others have
00:52 challenged the notion that cancel culture is a legit social movement. Singer and songwriter
00:57 Phoebe Bridgers shared to Teen Vogue, "I mean, is cancel culture real? Who's lost their job
01:02 politically? One huge offender is in jail for actual sex crimes, and then anything short of
01:08 that is maybe they lose a couple friends or lose a couple jobs. Then five years later, they're like,
01:13 'Sorry, sorry, sorry,' and they come back. But they never apologize. They never go away."
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