1. WHEN HE WAS 13!!!!!!
2. Are the Liberals are aware that the head of their Federal Party wore Black face on multiple occasion as a full grown adult man?
3. I can see why people think Cancel Culture has gone too far.
1. He was 15
2. Yes
3. Can you ? I certainly can.
I think people need to discover forgiveness again. In the olden times, your record would stick to you basically because people didn't forgive. You had to move away like Martin Guerre (French story of misplaced identities - look it up) and maybe change your identity.
Now with digital, you can't shake your past and memories don't fade so yes we need to forgive.
Top of the list for me are Asiz Ansari, Louis CK, Kathy Griffin
As for JK Rowling, I ask for a principle to be applied.
At what point do we have to accept a popular progressive perspective on anything ?
If you had said you were against interracial dating in 1959 you would not have been cancelled. 20 years later and yes
I think we need to accept that 'cancelled' means shunned, boycotted and unmarketable and people who sell their souls for millions have to accept that as part of the game. That said, there should also be a sunset period wherein they are asked to stop talking about it and we can pretend they never believed what they do.