Brian Cox calls cancel culture ‘a virus,’ like ‘modern-day McCarthyism’

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celebrity cancel culture, which he analogized to a modern-day form of “McCarthyism.” The 75-year-old Laurence Olivier award winner dropped the bombshell during a Thursday appearance on Piers Morgan’s show “Uncensored” on TalkTV.“It is a kind of modern-day McCarthyism really,” Cox told the host of the so-called witch hunt, in which celebs are excommunicated from Hollywood for certain actions and opinions. “It is a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them… I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy in the whole thing.”The thespian continued, “I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones.

And it is like a virus.”Cox was in good company while discussing the negativity of cancel culture with Post columnist Piers Morgan, who recently vowed to wipe out the damning trend.“My mission statement for this show is simple: I’m canceling cancel culture,” Morgan told “Piers Morgan Uncensored” viewers in April. “I’ll defeat this insidious, joyless, societal scourge with those most effective of democracy-preserving weapons: Common sense and truth.

And that’s ‘the’ truth. Not ‘your’ truth.”He added: “This is a no-cancel zone. No opinion will be silenced. No debate will be off-limits.

No BS will be tolerated.”Elsewhere in Thursday’s interview, Cox defended author JK Rowling, who’s received a tsunami of backlash from both the trans community and “Harry Potter” movie stars alike over her perceived transphobic comments. “I thought there was something deeply unjust about it.