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Originally Posted by belsarius
That’s BS. It’s not a left/right thing at all. It’s a holding people accountable and understanding growth. It’s also about context. Bill Maher came out and acknowledged what he said was wrong, apologized and followed up his next show with black guests that more or less informed his audience about the negativity of the word. Trudeau came out and apologized and recognized what he did was wrong, acknowledged that his privilege clouded his judgement at the time and apologized.
Peters did eventually issue an apology to Treliving for the situation. There was no apology to the player it affected. Even if he had apologized in the locker room 10 years ago he could have reiterated it toward Akim again. The same with Cherry, just double down that you agree with what you said.
If you want to call it a left/right divide then you have to admit the left owns up to their actions and try’s to improve and the right is unapologetic and stands by their actions regardless of how they wronged another. Personally I think this is NOT how to characterize the “left/right” political divide, and does nothing for the conversation.
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Not that this is the MOST important element of the Bill Maher story, but he also went with the soft A.
Really sounds like Peters went with the hard 'ER'. One may not agree that that is a noteworthy distinction, but I think it is.