Forgiveness is the next moral step after accountability. Jennings took accountability and apologized [0]. Therefore, forgiveness is now where we go. My comment

Forgiveness is the next moral step after accountability. Jennings took accountability and apologized [0]. Therefore, forgiveness is now where we go. My comment is already getting too political and culture wars-ey to be suitable for HN, for me, but at the risk of pushing that further I would like to add this: the moral nitpicking and flogging of public figures needs to end. There are real villains out there, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby who need to be and have been held to account, and there are real issues out there, like ageism and sexism in hiring processes. Focusing on trivial matters like this not only doesn't help the movement to justice, but actively harms it. A recent quote from Andrew Yang: > “I would say, ‘Hey! I’m running for president!’ to a truck driver, retail worker, waitress in a diner, and they would say, ‘What party?’ And I’d say ‘Democrat’ and they would flinch like I said something really negative or I had just turned another color or something like that.” Yang told CNN host Don Lemon during a panel. > “So you have to ask yourself, what has the Democratic Party been standing for in their minds?,” he continued. “And in their minds, the Democratic Party, unfortunately, has taken on this role of the coastal urban elites who are more concerned about policing various cultural issues than improving their way of life that has been declining for years.” [1] [0]: https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/987423884436647936 https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/987423884436647936 [1]: https://nypost.com/2020/11/07/andrew-yang-calls-out-democrats-for-being-coastal-urban-elites/ https://nypost.com/2020/11/07/andrew-yang-calls-out-democrat...