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I think completely villainizing someone over something they may or may not have done in high school based on a single picture is ridiculous in the extreme, especially given the time elapsed. What have you done for me lately is what matters. None of us are the same people now we were in high school. I sure as hell have things I don't want to see dragged out into public display, because I was a stupid kid, as were most of us at one point or another, and many still are, no matter their age, and I did dumb and embarrassing things back then. Hell, I do dumb things all the time. We have entered a bizarro world where the slightest hint of imperfection, from decades ago, are enough to draw the ire of the cancel crowd and have your current reputation dragged through the mud over **** like that no matter how long ago it was. It is so stupid and juvenile. Was he racist then? Does this picture prove it? Is he racist now? Do his actions and words now support the allegation of racism or not.? And no, I am not talking about the inevitable apology theater, hand-crafted statements from his PR team. I mean what he does and how he acts in daily life. That is what matters. Not what mistakes we made in the past, but did we learn from them and are we better now for it. This mob mentality around this **** just has to stop. Different times had different norms and lead inevitably to....today, and hopefully to us all learning and growing and becoming better people from those experiences. We can't go back and change it. Today is what matters, not 60 years ago. Barring straight up illegal and horrible ****, like murder or rape or messing with kids or whatever, the things we said and did 30, 40, 50, and 60 years ago should not matter RIGHT NOW.
Hell my white Mormon friends and I rode around in my car singing out loud to 2 Live Crew, because that was the most rebellious we would really get. Sometimes with a few black kids from school or from the basketball team as well. Look out, I am swearing dad! So I said the N-word out loud, sang it out loud, in my car, along with 2 Live Crew and that group of friends. So should I now be canceled despite the fact that I have grown and become a completely different person since then who feels ridiculous and stupid thinking about it now, and do my very best to not just mitigate but correct racism and bigotry wherever I can? Or does nothing matter except the fact that I sang that word out loud in my car when I was 16 and stupid,? Do I need to start cataloging everything stupid I ever did, admit to it, then issue apologies since inevitably someone somewhere will be traumatized when they hear I said or did something offensive 40 years ago? How stupid.
Good hell this **** really needs to stop.
Along these same lines, does anyone want to guess what the #1 insulting thing you could call another boy, from one boy to another, was in the 80's? What was the 1 thing at least 90% of young boys at that time called each other, that we felt sounded bad but not bad enough to get us in huge trouble if an adult overheard us? Any guesses?
Hell my white Mormon friends and I rode around in my car singing out loud to 2 Live Crew, because that was the most rebellious we would really get. Sometimes with a few black kids from school or from the basketball team as well. Look out, I am swearing dad! So I said the N-word out loud, sang it out loud, in my car, along with 2 Live Crew and that group of friends. So should I now be canceled despite the fact that I have grown and become a completely different person since then who feels ridiculous and stupid thinking about it now, and do my very best to not just mitigate but correct racism and bigotry wherever I can? Or does nothing matter except the fact that I sang that word out loud in my car when I was 16 and stupid,? Do I need to start cataloging everything stupid I ever did, admit to it, then issue apologies since inevitably someone somewhere will be traumatized when they hear I said or did something offensive 40 years ago? How stupid.
Good hell this **** really needs to stop.
Along these same lines, does anyone want to guess what the #1 insulting thing you could call another boy, from one boy to another, was in the 80's? What was the 1 thing at least 90% of young boys at that time called each other, that we felt sounded bad but not bad enough to get us in huge trouble if an adult overheard us? Any guesses?
