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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
it depends on what you mean by personally apologize. The first time her reached out to the victim was as the Bruins were trying to sign him.
Causes doubt into the sincerity of that apology
This is a good column that I agree with. there are several others:
https://thehockeynews.com/news/hocke...-it-never-will |
This is the crux of it.
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Miller's actions against Meyers-Crothers do not represent a case of youthful tomfoolery gone awry. They were calculated in their execution, rooted in the pursuit of deriving pleasure from the misfortune of a defenseless party. That Miller continues to downplay these crimes and attempt to sweep them under the rug -- his Bruins-sanctioned statement refers only to a singular incident for which he apologizes -- only further demonstrates his lack of remorse.
If it weren't a required step on his path to a professional hockey career, would Miller have ever apologized at all? No one can say for sure. But the evidence paints a clear picture.
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If that is your picture of who Miller is, you are of course going to take the position that he has not paid adequately for what he did.
If you have a different view - that this was likely a ####ty kid who did ####ty things and now seems to recognize that what he did was awful, and is ashamed of it, then you might have a different view about what the consequences should be in the present day.
I dunno. I'm kind of in between. I definitely do not think it is very likely that this person is a sociopath who is utterly lacking in any remorse for what he did. I think he almost certainly deeply regrets it, and that that regret is rooted both in an understanding that his actions were totally deplorable and reflect his poor character, and also an understanding that this will follow him for life and has made his life more difficult. I don't think those feelings would be extricable, that's just how people are, especially teenagers, and he just turned 20. If that characterization is accurate, I think it would be reasonable to say that he has more work to do to personally deal with his past actions, which again is not surprising given his age - very few 20 year olds are equipped to do that. If you think certain career paths should be barred for him while he's engaged in that journey I guess that's a place to stand, though I'm not sure where the line is on that or how you could justify setting a line in a particular place.
All that being said, I don't know this dude. No one on this forum does. No one writing articles like the one you linked to does either, I assume. Maybe he really is, to this day, some form of evil, remorseless, racist villain. It's just weird to me that people want to
assume that he is, rather than a relatively median, flawed human being who was a horrible prick as an adolescent and now has to deal with the fallout as he transitions to adulthood.