You totally missed the sarcasm. The cancel culture is an invention of the left, there are plenty of people punished for saying stupid things long ago but only conservatives really even seem to get punished. There is probably no one on this planet that has not said or done something that someone else would call racist, we are human, we say and do dumb things.
The hard truth is whoopi is protected because of her stolen Jewish name (cultural appropriation) and her skin color. If one of her white co-hosts used the name Toby to sound black and repeated the racist crap old whoopi did, there would be no doubt on suspension vs fired and blacklisted (can we still use that term?).
The problem with racism is it is mostly made up. Consider a mixed family, if two brothers born of the same parents but with different skin tones get mad and call each other the magic "N-word" you know the one that racist blacks will not let whites use, yeah that one. Anyway, two brothers, one light skin, one dark, use the same word in anger, someone not realizing they were brothers would likely only condemn the lighter brother. The darker toned child would be seen as the victim.
These accepted cultural rules are stupid, just admit everyone on the planet is a pack animal and the only difference between us and an animal is we pick our own packs, based on race, religion, sports, entertainment and dozens of other things.
Racism is the stupidest thing to judge anyone on, we are all guilty. We have, we will and will again, insult someone. Or is it racist to pretend you are not guilty?