I Refuse to “Cancel” My Friend Simply Because He Hates Transgender People And Also Burned Down An Arby’s

Let’s have some compassion for the real victims — comedians who sometimes get criticized online.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
6 min readJan 3, 2022

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Hello! It’s me, your favorite affable, unthreatening white male comedian. You may remember me from such bits as “Star Wars —…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.