Friendly reminder that if our pasts were audited the same way public figures pasts are audited, we would all be cancelled too. Angry audiences aren& #39;t practicing empathy nearly as much as they think they are.
This isn& #39;t to say that awful actions shouldn& #39;t warrant punishment. They should but, we should be willing to consider a broad amount of context before doling out justice. If we take Shane& #39;s case. He wasn& #39;t persecuted when millions of people were watching those videos 10 yrs ago.
Why? Because the world was different, and as a result, he, and the rest of us were different too. This punishment based on a retrospective view is not a great route to take imo. Young Shane wasn& #39;t in control of the cultural shift that has taken place in the last decade.
Thus, he couldn& #39;t predict which actions would retrospectively be viewed in a negative light. It seems obvious now that his jokes were absurd and frankly not funny but, that was VERY par for the course in 2010.