The king of late night has some advice for journalists and entertainers on the conservative side of the aisle.
On the âRubin Reportâ on Sunday, Greg Gutfeld, the sharp-witted co-host of âThe Fiveâ and host of âGutfeld!â, discussed the Cancel Culture and the attacks he faces on a daily basis by those on the left.
âItâs weird because, the irony is, more dangerous on Gutfeld! â they leave me alone,â Gutfeld said.
âBut the people that are really trying to get me are the ones that are auditing, and I use, like âauditing,â The Five. So theyâre actually like, itâs like theyâre not taking the course, you know, theyâre showing up in the back hoping that the professor uses the wrong pronoun.â
âI would assume that at least once a week there is somebody deliberately trying to destroy my career, but I canât let that stop me,â Gutfeld added.
âWe all have to share the risk,â Gutfeld said.
Gutfeld, with his firsthand experience with Cancel Culture, put into words what most of us on the conservative side have been realizing.
Every time we share our opinions, write a piece, or raise our hand in class to refute an opinion masquerading as fact, we take a risk.
Cancel Culture has become the boogeyman of our age, the shadow monster that gives conservatives a moment of pause before they open their mouths to say what they are thinking.
And the only way to fight this encroachment over our thoughts is by sharing the risk of speaking the truth.
âIf you get canceled and thereâs another way out,â Gutfeld said, âyou will always rise above.â
âThe perfect example is Jason Aldean getting targeted â his song goes to number one,â he added.
âHereâs the thing,â Gutfeld said a little later. âI donât believe that boycotts are good. However⊠when you see that somebody is trying to pull a fast one on you, thatâs worthy enough to call it out and to avoid them.
âAnd then, when you see someone whoâs being unfairly targeted,â he continued, âthat is when you share the risk.â
âThat is when you go, like, OK Iâm going to go buy Greg Gutfeldâs book because they accused him of being a bigot. Or a racist. Because I know he isnât, and I want to have the Jason Aldean effect.â
His book plug aside, the âJason Aldean effectâ Gutfeld referenced within the conservative community has only recently gone from an occasional half-hearted boycott into a movement that is steadily growing in strength.
The success of the Bud Light and Target boycotts and the success of Jason Aldeanâs âTry that in a small town,â after getting pulled off CMT, have given conservatives a taste of what it feels like when the shoe is on the other foot, and it feels great.
Every conservative who went out and bought that single shared a little piece of Aldeanâs victory when the song went to number one.
Because when we share the risk, we also share the reward.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
