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Stoked said:
To me it depends on the skeleton. Not all skeletons are equal. Some things should absolutely be brought up no matter how late.
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I understand it's fair to be brought up, but by doing so, it mainly completely ignores how one's life could be full of progression. Judge a man by who they are today rather than who they were yesterday.

As a society, we are progressing and moving forward, no doubt in my mind. Judging people based off of their actions from years ago should only be fair if their actions today mirror their past.

A society that condemns the past of one who has evolved, learned, repented, grown, moved forward, changed, etc is a society taking steps backwards, not forwards.

A lot of people on Twitter are not intellectually capable of processing this because they're moved too much my emotions and social/political narratives.

I was a bigot, ignorant, and closed minded individual 10 years ago and I thought I was being a faithful servant. I hope people judge me based off of who I am today and learn about why I was and how I changed.
 
Archie Moses said:
I understand it's fair to be brought up, but by doing so, it mainly completely ignores how one's life could be full of progression. Judge a man by who they are today rather than who they were yesterday.

As a society, we are progressing and moving forward, no doubt in my mind. Judging people based off of their actions from years ago should only be fair if their actions today mirror their past.

A society that condemns the past of one who has evolved, learned, repented, grown, moved forward, changed, etc is a society taking steps backwards, not forwards.

A lot of people on Twitter are not intellectually capable of processing this because they're moved too much my emotions and social/political narratives.

I was a bigot, ignorant, and closed minded individual 10 years ago and I thought I was being a faithful servant. I hope people judge me based off of who I am today and learn about why I was and how I changed.
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For stuff like that I agree. But if your attitudes then led to crimes, like assault for instance, that’s a different story.
 
Stoked said:
To me it depends on the skeleton. Not all skeletons are equal. Some things should absolutely be brought up no matter how late.
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Agreed. The problem is how are the skeletons ranked, and how to get people to agree on it.
 
Zombie said:
It's just awful when people are made to suffer the consequences of their behavior. We are truly living in the end times.
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Unless it's Sarah Jeong from the NYTs who's tweets were hateful and racist. The SNL dude's comments were ignorant racist.

Lol

You defended her in this very thread and what she said was way more vile.

You're a hypocrite
 
Archie Moses said:


Edit: Oops. For some reason I though the f word would be censored. Frac me if you must.
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I remember when me and my fellow eleven year old Mormon friends got a hold an Eddie Murphy stand up cassette, which included this sketch. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever heard. We then created our own sketch in which we pretended to be a "****** extermination squad" and prank called other kids and asked them if they were ******(s).

We also pretty relentlessly bullied a boy in our boy scout troop who we suspected was gay, calling him a "fage" in a very clever attempt not to get in trouble.

All this to say, comedy is no excuse for horrible bigoted remarks. Being a comedian doesn't or shouldn't give you a pass to say whatever you want.
 
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Zombie said:
Eh, it's an ill though out sarcastic tweet. Not every tweet needs to be a 20 part breakdown of an opinion you disagree with. Anyway, I'm not saying I think she ought to have sent the tweets, but it's hardly evidence of racism on her part.
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So if it's a sarcastic tweet, it's ok to be racist and not lose your job. Ok.
 
Zombie said:
I remember when me and my fellow eleven year old Mormon friends got a hold an Eddie Murphy stand up cassette, which included this sketch. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever heard. We then created our own sketch in which we pretended to be a "****** extermination squad" and prank called other kids and asked them if they were faggots.

We also pretty relentlessly bullied a boy in our boy scout troop who we suspected was gay, calling him a "fage" in a very clever attempt not to get in trouble.

All this to say, comedy is no excuse for horrible bigoted remarks. Being a comedian doesn't or shouldn't give you a pass to say whatever you want.
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You weren't a comedian. You were a bully that thought it was funny at one person's expense.

Kinda sad you'd compare the two.

Btw, why does it matter if they were mormon friends? Lol

You don't understand comedy, bro. 100%. They push the boundaries.
 
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