Facing pressure from the Trump administration on Monday, ABC—owned by Disney—announced it would be suspending the late-night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely,” after the host came under attack from fascists and Trump administration officials over his commentary on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
I’m not going to berate anyone for doing the right thing a little after I personally did
That’s not what it’s really about. I’m saying that people doing it now only care because of this one thing that they are being outrage-baited into caring about temporarily. It’s performative.