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Obviously not exactly this word-for-word, but I'm pretty sure most people have told equally objectionable things that they regretted afterwards or didn't fully

• mrguyorama 3y ago
  Yeah When I was 14! Not when I'm a well educated, rather privileged adult who spends his day job telling people that trans people are targeting them and that they are at ideological ("culture") war, and actively talking about how the guy I'm publicly pushing is someone I personally think is despicable. You know what I do when I say something that hurts someone now that I'm an adult? I apologize.
  • throw_pm23 3y ago
    Was there someone in public life in recent memory who sincerely apologized for something and was offered forgiveness by the general public? It often seems like those who double down on something bad end up better off. It doesn't mean that it is the right thing to do, of course.
    • mrguyorama 3y ago
      Doing the right thing does not always end with you in a better position. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. All you can do is apologize, and that should really be the only acceptable next step after you as a public figure make an oopsie. Whether other people are willing to forgive you or "take you back" is up to them, and people being judgemental assholes when it comes to a very public and controversial figure is not an excuse to not do the right thing. That's just what it means to live on the knife's edge of being a controversial person. Forgiveness is earned, not expected. You won't always get a second chance.