‘Jeopardy!’ fans made the witch hunt work last time, so why not go after the other newly minted host of the show, Mayim Bialik?
It seems Jeopardy! viewers will not be happy until Alex Trebek is back behind the podium. Sadly, that can’t ever happen, but none of his successors seem to be good enough for the at home audience.
It’s cancel culture at it’s best (worst) as fans of the quiz show are– after successfully seeing host number one, Mike Richards step down– going after absolutely anything they can find to defame host number two, Mayim Bialik.
‘Jeopardy!’ Fans Move the Witch Hunt to Mayim Bialik
When Richards’ past came back to haunt him, in the form of disparaging comments against women, Bialik, who was tapped to host primetime Jeopardy! specials only, was asked to temporarily step in to host the syndicated weeknight show.
However, social media trolls are now calling on the 45 year old host to also step down. Their reasoning? She may be an anti-vaxxer…who recently got her Covid vaccine.
So Bialik, once wrote an opinion article for the New York Times, which some say is an example of “victim blaming” and “spreads vaccine doubt and hawks brain quackery.”
Due to this opinion piece from the neurobiologist/actress, naysayers have decided “[Bialik] is no representative for a show about facts and authority.”
Not everyone agreed with Bialik’s cancellation with a fan responding to the Twitter post, “I disagree. Her personal decisions on what to vaccinations to give her children have nothing to do with hosting Jeopardy. This is ridiculous.”
Last week, a rep for Bialik assured fans and foes, “She has been fully vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus and is not at all an anti-vaxxer.”
Bialik herself said this in a 2020 YouTube video titled “Anti-Vaxxers and COVID”. The Big Bang Theory star stated that she and her children were fully vaccinated against the infectious disease and, even though vaccines are “never 100% effective,” she found it “very disturbing” that people refused to get vaccinated against COVID.
She also clarified comments she made in her 2012 parenting book about not receiving a vaccine, herself, in 30 years.
“You might be saying, ‘Hey, wait a second, you don’t believe in vaccines! You’re one of those anti-vaxxers,” Bialik continued in the 2020 video. “Let’s finally talk about it. I wrote a book about 10 years ago about my experience parenting and at the time my children had not received the typical schedule of vaccines. But I have never, not once, said that vaccines are not valuable, not useful, or not necessary because they are.”
Bialik seems to be staying put in her temporary syndication host tenure and permanent primetime role. LeVar Burton still has a very vocal group pushing for the host and actor to nab the permanent role. Unfortunately, it seems these Burton supporters don’t actually watch Jeopardy! as Burton had the lowest ratings of all the guest hosts who stepped in after Trebek’s November 2020 passing.
More guest hosts will take over after Bialik’s guest appearance before a new permanent host is named.
Break out your pitchforks and torches, just in case…
