Every time I see “cancel” used like this I feel compelled to remind that if this was a real issue preexisting terms indicative of bad behavior would be used…e.g., censorship…and they aren’t used because they don’t apply and cancel culture is made up to absolve people of consequences for their actions.
Cancel culture IS a problem. You are part of the problem for not acknowledging it.
Let’s walk through it…
Person A says something bad (your ‘off color joke’)
Person B dislikes that and says so on the internet, loudly
Person C sees what B said and decides not to hire A
Your argument is that B is more responsible for Cs actions than A or C is. This particular brand of American individual freedoms is bought into by one end of our political spectrum in particular and is nonsense.
This is why I believe Twitter should be forcibly shut down. Their entire business model depends on them memory holing the atrocities its users commit.