Veteran Scottish actor Brian Cox denounced “woke culture” and attributed millennials and the rise of social media to proliferating the wave of canceling and shaming those who don’t embrace their points of view.
The 77-year-old actor made the statements during a Tuesday appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” where he talked about his career and pondered the harm done by purported online arbiters of societal standards. Mr. Cox was just nominated for another Emmy award for his role portraying Logan Roy in the popular HBO series “Succession.”
“I don’t think social media helps. It hinders, not helps,” Mr. Cox said when queried by Mr. Morgan about how the use of such platforms has affected the world at large. “I think it points out too readily inadequacies. And the whole woke, what we’ve talked about before, the whole woke culture is truly awful … and the shaming culture.”…