just off the top of my head I can think of many people getting cancelled and/or losing their jobs due to jokes they made online many years prior, despite disavo

just off the top of my head I can think of many people getting cancelled and/or losing their jobs due to jokes they made online many years prior, despite disavowing the opinion and/or clarifying that it was just a joke in poor taste (if your response is that those people deserved it, then you are necessarily also admitting that, no, there isn't really room to "grow and change", if the thing you said offends the wrong people in the wrong way)