The Bachelor meets reality
Today, Explained
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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you believe what you hear on the TV or on Facebook, man, that cancel culture is coming |
| 0:26.8 | for just about everything these days. |
| 0:29.4 | Dr. Sous is supposedly getting canceled for his racist caricatures. |
| 0:33.7 | The Muppets are apparently getting canceled because an old episode featured a Confederate |
| 0:37.8 | flag. |
| 0:38.8 | It's getting so bad that this past weekend's conservative political action conference |
| 0:44.6 | or CPAC held in Orlando, Florida was themed around un-canceling America. |
| 0:51.5 | Of course, even they had to cancel a speaker who called Judaism a complete lie. |
| 0:58.9 | You can't win these days with cancel culture, y'all. |
| 1:02.0 | And now they say cancel culture is coming for one of reality TV's crown jewels, the |
| 1:08.5 | Bachelor. |
| 1:09.5 | The latest season of the show was supposed to be an historic one. |
| 1:13.6 | Instead, the season's been mired in controversy that's left one of America's most reliable |
| 1:19.4 | reality TV franchises in a pretty serious identity crisis. |
| 1:25.4 | This reality TV show is starting to look a lot like reality. |
| 1:30.2 | Before we get into what's a foot in Bachelor Nation, a quick primer on the show from someone |
| 1:34.9 | in the know. |
| 1:35.9 | My name is Brandy Monk-Payton. |
| 1:39.1 | I am a professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. |
| 1:44.7 | Brandy teaches students about the Bachelor. |
| 1:47.9 | Yes, the Bachelor. |
| 1:51.2 | Mondays at 80's, turn 7, central time on ABC. |
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