Sharon Osbourne has drawn a comparison between Hitler and Will Smith while calling out the hypocrisy that exists within cancel culture.
Osbourne made the comparison when explaining the hypocrisy she sees where some people are too scared to make judgements to a person’s face about their behaviour, but will do so behind a computer or behind their back. Osbourne used the recent Oscars incident between Will Smith and Chris Rock as an example.
“When [Smith] wins [the Best Actor award], everybody stands up,” she told the Sunday Times. “It’s, like, you’re such hypocrites. You’re going to go home and say how disgraceful his behavior was, but you stand up and give him a standing ovation. You know, it’s like I’ve always said, in this industry, if people could make a buck off you… If Hitler were alive today, they would give him a TV show.”
During the same interview, Osbourne addressed the criticism she received after standing up for her friend Piers Morgan, and saw her experience cancel culture first-hand and eventually saw her leave her position at tv show The Talk.
Osbourne experienced the backlash because of a comment she made on the talk show last March. The 69-year old defended a comment Morgan made that questioned some of Meghan Markle’s claims in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, in particular, one about her and Harry’s son’s skin colour.
“She’s entitled to her opinion, Piers is entitled to his,” Osbourne said on The Talk. “And that’s what it’s all about.”
She added, “Disagreeing with someone does not make you a racist in my book.”
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Osbourne revealed that she was inundated with death threats because of her comments.
“They were saying they were going to come in the night, cut my throat, cut Ozzy [Osbourne’s] throat, cut my dogs’ throats,” Osbourne explained. “I said, ‘I ain’t going out, I ain’t doing anything.’ I just couldn’t stop crying because all I was thinking about was all the things that I’ve gone through in my life, and now they’re calling me a racist. This is insanity.”
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