Used to think cancel culture was just people being too sensitive, then I saw what happened to that baker in Oregon

There was this bakery in Portland that refused to make a cake for a gay wedding back in 2018. I remember reading the news and thinking the backlash was overblown, like just find another baker. But I watched a documentary about it last week, 7 years later, and the owner had to close the shop, lost her house, and got death threats for months. The couple who wanted the cake even said they didn't want her to lose everything. That timeline from news story to financial ruin hit different. I get the line between consequences and mob justice now, but where do you draw it? Has anyone else had their view change after seeing the full aftermath of one of these cases?

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drewr158d ago

Oh man, that documentary perspective really shifts everything. It's like we see the initial fire but not the years of smoldering aftermath that completely changes the story.

nguyen.angela8d agoTop Commenter

River952's comment reminds me of this old case my uncle was into, where everyone focused on the initial accident but the real story was in how the insurance company handled it years later. Like, they kept paying out settlements but every single one had a weird clause that basically said the person couldn't talk about it. It's wild how the boring paperwork part can hold the actual truth, not the dramatic stuff we see on TV. Maybe it's just how I see things, but I feel like the smoldering aftermath is where all the secrets get buried.

river9528d ago

Are you saying there's more to that story than they let on? Because I watched a doc about a similar case and it totally flipped my opinion on the whole thing. The aftermath stuff is where the real truth hides, man.