NFL fans slam Aaron Rodgers for wearing "cancel culture" sweatshirt

Aaron Rodgers is back in the news about something he did outside of football. This time, the quarterback is getting criticized for wearing a controversial sweatshirt. The sweatshirt itself isn't controversial, per se, but the messaging it supports is generating conversation. Here's what fans are saying about the stance Aaron Rodgers is taking.

Fans push back against Aaron Rodgers' stance on cancel culture

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The sweatshirt came with Rodgers' remarks about the pandemic and his reasons for criticizing the conversation centered around it. Most of the responses had something to say about the sweatshirt and the attached message from Aaron Rodgers.

According to Packers News, Aaron Rodgers is frustrated by the lack of talk about underlying health and living a healthy life so one is better prepared to fight off diseases.

"The one frustration that I have in all of this is that, throughout this entire time, there hasn’t been a real conversation around health, as far as giving people things to think about like how to be healthier, as far as your diet, and vitamins and exercise," Rodgers said.

Many would say this message has been clipped and thrown into the headlines quickly to make Rodgers out to be someone who is careless and essentially ignoring everyone but himself to get extra clicks. Few people read the full article to get the full context of the quote; instead, they commented anyway.

These commentors are at the core of cancel culture. They can move mountains with a few angry tweets. According to Aaron Rodgers, it seems his sweatshirt was a request not to cancel him, after facing backlash for his choice to avoid getting shots and misleading the media into thinking he was vaccinated.

Cancel culture is on the rise in recent years. At this point, plenty would agree that they simply stay silent to avoid risking a comment getting taken out of context and weaponized against them. The weaponized quotes could be used to essentially end their careers and ostricize them from society.

Of course, many would agree that some offenders deserve to be removed from the picture through cancel culture. That said, some offenses receive a disproportionate, snowball effect that ruins them for an offhand comment said decades prior.

At the end of the day, cancel culture isn't going away anytime soon and is a new reality of a society where everyone has cameras, microphones, and a megaphone that could potentially reach every corner of planet Earth.