Kevin Hart was forced to step down as host of the Oscars, for example, when old tweets containing gay slurs were discovered,41 and when he was later injured in a car accident, many Social Justice–oriented activists celebrated it. The lesbian presenter Ellen DeGeneres was also censured, for her qualified defense of him. Her crime: accepting his mea culpa on behalf of a community, some of whom didn’t want it. She had already caused outrage by tweeting a humorous picture of herself appearing to ride on the back of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, which some activists thought played into racist
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