The anti-woke crowd is really digging into this situation as nothing more than someone who did something as a kid and is now being canceled for it.
In my opinion there has been a lack of accountability in our society for a long time. Trump was the king of saying or doing what he wanted without repercussion. Social media lets people say disgusting things to one another without any recourse. I see it in the workplace all the time with issues always being someone else’s fault.
If Miller is not held accountable then what does that say? It basically says you can be a despicable human being but as long as you have athletic ability then we will just dust off the old “boys will be boys” statement and forgive/forget. Personally I am hoping that at least one kid who needs to mature a little bit sees what happened to Miller and comes to the conclusion they are not invincible and decides to act accordingly.
Everything I read about this story is that he was not really that remorseful and still tried to intimidate Isiah in the years that followed. He only did what he was mandated to do. Optics show now anything he is doing is done with the intent to get his hockey career going again. He could have handled this differently at the time he was caught and charged and showed real remorse and actually apologized like he co-accused did. Miller was always in the position of power and did not feel he needed to be remorseful or accountable for these actions which I would put a lot of this on his parents.
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