When the United States men’s hockey team celebrated defeating Canada by visiting the White House, there was immediate fallout. This led to one Alabama woman slamming the entire concept of cancel culture, something she is “sick and tired of.” She warns at the beginning of the video that “ya’ll are not going to like [her] opinion when it comes to the men’s hockey team.” Her rant includes blasting Heated Rivalry fans and slamming “performative asinine cancel culture.”
In her opinion, “if someone’s being cancelled 9/10 [she’s] taking the person’s side who’s being cancelled.” The Alabama woman asks, “What do you want for the punishment for the men’s team?” She doesn’t see the point “of being this mad at people you don’t know.” Part of her rant includes incidents where Heated Rivalry fans went online to harass hockey players. She rants that “some of ya’ll go the path of death, destruction, and negativity.” This is something she “will not subscribe to.”
The Alabama woman claims, “I will not subscribe to negativity ever.” She accuses fans of “waging a battle and waving a banner for something” that the people they’re mad at don’t care about. One incident she describes is, “Some of ya’ll [went into] the comment section of a wife of a hockey player who’s Canadian and wasn’t even at the Olympics.” These comments include saying horrendous things about “his two-year-old daughter.” She slams, “You’ve lost the plot!”
Alabama Woman Blasts Heated Rivalry Fans
The Alabama woman explains how Heated Rivalry fans should want to “get a community that is majority men, probably right-wing men” to be more inclusive with queer spaces in hockey. The goal should be how to “have conversations with them, and get to a spot where we can make the NHL more queer-friendly.” Instead, fans are resorting to toxic behavior. She says, “The second they don’t hit everything you want, you want to kill them.” The woman continues, “You want them dead in the street.” She wants to know, “How does that achieve any goal?”
From her perspective, if she were someone in the NHL, and she saw the behavior, she wouldn’t want anything to do with those fans. She says, “I’m looking at the Heated Rivalry fandom and going, that’s exactly why I didn’t want anything to do with them.” She slams, “Ya’ll are attacking a two-year-old girl, because her dad plays in the NHL?” The player wasn’t even on the American team. Because of this, the Alabama woman “will never subscribe to cancel culture, because it’s gone too far.” She adds, “If ya’ll don’t like that opinion, take it up with yourself.” She rants that she can’t enjoy watching SNL because of “performative asinine cancel culture.” The woman concludes that she’s choosing to see “the best in everybody, and that includes the entire men’s hockey team.”
