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Why do so many whites accept political correctness? Because their lives are too good and they’re too afraid to fight back. If it doesn’t directly affect them, why should they care? These American cattle are grazing the strip mall pastures, mooing at their favorite sports teams.

The epitome of these complacent bovines is Carson King. The 24-year-old Iowa man gained fame for holding up a sign requesting beer money on ESPN’s College Gameday, a popular sports show hosted at the week’s biggest college football game. The anchors were seated outside as dozens of excited young fans stood behind them and held funny signs. King’s sign was a direct beg for money, with a Venmo link prominently displayed, to help him buy Busch Light, a very cheap domestic beer.

King raised quite a bit of money with his sign: one million dollars. He decided to give his money to a children’s hospital, a much better cause than a lifetime supply of Busch Light.

Anheuser-Busch agreed to give him a year’s supply of his favorite beer with his face on each can, along with a sizable donation to the children’s hospital. King’s story was set to be one of those hokey, yet uplifting, stories that ESPN’s audience loves.

Enter cancel culture into the story.

A Des Moines Register reporter found “racist” tweets from King, which were posted when he was only 16 years old. The tweets weren’t even his own creation; they were quotes from the Comedy Central show Tosh.0. King nevertheless claimed the tweets made him “sick” and he issued a groveling apology at a press conference. “I am so embarrassed and stunned to reflect on what I thought was funny when I was 16 years old. I want to sincerely apologize,” he said in his confession.

King said he’s become a better person and his racial views are expressed by this 2016 tweet: “Until we as a people learn that racism and hate are learned behaviors, we won’t get rid of it. Tolerance towards others is the first step.”

King thanked the Des Moines Register for finding his old tweets, and insisted the paper has only been kind to him.

The apology did him no favors with Anheuser-Busch, as the beer giant cut off his year’s supply of Busch Light. But the apology did win him the admiration of conservatives and liberals alike and sparked outrage against the Des Moines Register. Conservatives dug up the Register’s reporter’s old tweets and publicly shamed him. They said this was cancel culture at its worst; King just wanted beer money and helped a kids’ hospital, for God’s sake!

It worked: The Register fired the reporter in order to quell the outrage.

Regardless, Iowa’s Republican Governor announced a Carson King Day on the same day that the controversy broke. The Governor signaled that Iowa wouldn’t cancel one of their own.

Liberals who defended King took a different tack from conservatives. They said his groveling meant he had changed and canceling him would set too tough of a precedent:

If Carson King had been defiant about the two tweets from when he was 16 or doubled down, I would get why the Register would mention them but according the paper, he was deeply remorseful. I fail to see how it was newsworthy, especially given the good work he’s been doing

— Yashar Ali