He’s not being an edgelord anymore so that’s something. If he has grown and changed as a person he should be forgiven. I don’t believe he has done anything unforgivable. I don’t know that he has ever formerly aplogized but I don’t believe he is the same person he was. As leftists we need to be able to forgive people who made fucked up jokes. If we can’t do that then I don’t see how we are supposed to grow as a movement.
He did more than make fucked up jokes, though. He was pushing white supremacist accounts that he followed on social media at one point to his young and impressionable audience. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and he hasn’t done anything to rectify that situation one way or the other. Given the evidence we have, he could’ve simply started wearing his iron cross behind closed doors instead of on stream.
Having lived long enough to see the edgy teenagers making 4channer jokes grow up to and have those become their actual beliefs, I believe in Philosophical Inertia. You say something often enough, and it becomes what you truly believe. And until you prove otherwise, I am going to assume that your beliefs continue on that same course.
Depends, did he change and grow as a person?
He’s not being an edgelord anymore so that’s something. If he has grown and changed as a person he should be forgiven. I don’t believe he has done anything unforgivable. I don’t know that he has ever formerly aplogized but I don’t believe he is the same person he was. As leftists we need to be able to forgive people who made fucked up jokes. If we can’t do that then I don’t see how we are supposed to grow as a movement.
He did more than make fucked up jokes, though. He was pushing white supremacist accounts that he followed on social media at one point to his young and impressionable audience. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and he hasn’t done anything to rectify that situation one way or the other. Given the evidence we have, he could’ve simply started wearing his iron cross behind closed doors instead of on stream.
Having lived long enough to see the edgy teenagers making 4channer jokes grow up to and have those become their actual beliefs, I believe in Philosophical Inertia. You say something often enough, and it becomes what you truly believe. And until you prove otherwise, I am going to assume that your beliefs continue on that same course.