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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Agreed.
What's really sad is the ideal outcome of someone like Hader maturing, learning and changing his ways is no longer the ideal outcome.
Some of the outrage crowd would see that as a failure because they'd rather have the outrage then a better person.
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I don’t know if that’s necessarily true. Or at least not the “some” in any significant sense. I think “outrage culture” is just magnified. In some respects, the amount of people outraged is very minor, but the amount of people who agree that “hey, this is a bad thing, he should probably be aware of that” is much larger. What unfortunately has happened is that these people have been painted with the same brush, and that not only makes the “outrage culture” seem much larger, but also makes it seem like they have to be catered to (Disney firing Gunn, for example, even though his tweets were insane they could’ve probably done nothing and I don’t know if it would have had much impact on their bottom line or reputation).
I still think the ideal outcome is growth. I think Hader has probably seen the error of it and has already grown as a person since that time, but now more than ever is aware of the importance of that growth.
That said, growing out of using racist, homophobic language shouldn’t be celebrated, it should just be something that you do (we don’t celebrate people for being decent) and I think the fans who gave him a standing O are pretty ignorant.
You don’t celebrate someone for saying sorry for cheering them on. You accept the apology and let them build their reputation back up in a way that reflects their change. Hader should (and will) have that chance.