pietriarchy:

I kinda hate it when people dig up offensive jokes or whatever from 10 something years ago from someone and somehow that ends up being more important than the person they are today and the ways they’ve improved and educated themselves over time. (Not to mention that in the past when it came to a lot of offensive humor and social issues times and the general opinion/available widespread information were very different.) That’s just actively telling everyone that no matter what, change doesn’t matter. Why improve yourself you’re always going to be the person you were in the past and we can and will hunt you down for it.

What kind of message is that? As if we’ve all been so woke and flawless in our entire existence.

By all means hold people accountable for causing harm and call them out to explain themselves or apologise if needed but why would we keep attacking those who’ve obviously grown, apologise and learned and pretend like that doesn’t matter one bit in the grand scheme of things and then punish them for it forever. I’m just so confused by that attitude.