Rowan Atkinson calls out cancel culture: a ‘medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn’

British actor Rowan Atkinson, famous for his character Mr. Bean, sat down for an extensive interview with UK outlet Radio Times, and discussed his feelings on the current media scene and cancel culture.

“The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society. It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘canceled,'” he said.

He went on to express the need for a diverse set of beliefs and his concern for the future.

“It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn,” Atkinson said in the interview. “So it is scary for anyone who’s a victim of that mob and it fills me with fear about the future.”

Read the full interview here.

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