Dolly Parton.
Princess Diana.
Helen Keller.
Fred Rogers.
Only those four remain in Don’t Cancel Me, Bro! – a single-elimination bracket in which voters are asked who they believe is the least likely person to be canceled.
It’s been interesting to see the calculus on these. Some people say they’ve considered how fervently a person’s supporters will defend them. Some people say they’ve considered how big a target someone is. Some people (one person) sent us an explanation of why they don’t like Helen Keller, and you know what? It made sense.
But we’re now at a stage, or maybe we were always at a stage, where it’s really hard to see any of these people getting canceled. I mean, again, that was probably the case for a lot of this bracket. It’s why the field was chosen the way it was. It was kind of the point of this whole dumb thing. Eventually, we knew we’d get to a stage where we weren’t even speculating about whether a person would be canceled for things they’d actually done, but about what things they might have done or what things they might do. This has been the case for most of the bracket. But I’m writing about it today, because it was a long day and I’m supposed to toss up a blog post before I send out the email and this is easy to write. These people are hard to cancel!
Anyway, we’re moving on to a new consideration:
Will damning evidence of any of these people’s cancel-worthiness come out? How likely is it for each?
And while I hope it doesn’t, for all of them, it’s given me a good idea for an elevator conversation I should never start.
