“For shizzle, my nizzle.”
Those were the words of death for Mississippi morning news anchor Barbie Bassett.
She was reading a story about a new line of wines Snoop was revealing. At the close she uttered the phrase, which (“nizzle”) has been interpreted as dropping the “n bomb” in some cultures.
The network said she was temporary suspended, and will likely be terminated.
But Bassett had her defenders far and wide. She claimed she didn’t know that the expression was such a serious one.
Charlemagne the God agreed too saying, “she might not even know what that means, yo. I’m not like, come on, we got to like, stop man. That’s not a reason to fire that woman.”
And Whoopi Goldberg quickly came to her defense as well noting, “There has to be a book of stuff that nobody could ever say, ever, ever, ever. Include everything. The things that change, you can say this, but you can’t say that, but next week you might not be able to say this, it’s hard to keep up. And if you’re a person of a certain age, there’s stuff we do, and we say.”
Goldberg’s defense might signal a changing of the guard when it comes to cancel culture. If the person is reasonably expected not to understand the gravity of their statements, maybe they shouldn’t be cancelled. Cancel culture going too far, even for the cancellers.
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