I mean, hey, while we’re talking about your fave being problematic, and what we expect from celebrities and things, might as well keep talking about this, yeah?
I felt like I had really profound thoughts when I drafted this with the title, and now that I go back to it, I feel a little at a blank hahahaha.
But basically, I think the idea I wanted to talk about was how I do think we kind of pigeonhole people sometimes – depending on what their scandal was. And I think that sometimes the reason people want to deflect and avoid accountability is because they’re scared of the fallout, and the ‘cancelling’ potentially, and being defined as something they don’t want to be.
(I think this is true even of personal relationships too.)
It’s tough, because I think so many things play into this – how close you are to the situation, etc. Like, reformed Trump voters, for example. Let’s say someone was too young to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Then, they voted for Donald Trump against Joe Biden. After that, they had a change of heart… That’s soooort of, in some ways, no harm, no foul.
Joe won. So, their vote didn’t actively do anything. Whereas, someone who actually helped put Donald in (such as someone in a crucial state that Hillary barely lost), it’d be harder for many to forgive them, seeing all the consequences we’re still reeling from.
But if people’s growth can’t be celebrated, why would they want to grow?
It’s hard when people do bad things. It’s hard when we ourselves do bad things. And I don’t know if we have an actually good path for how to allow – not only allow – but celebrate growth.
In a perfect world, people would be great from jump. But we don’t live in a perfect world. So, what do we do when that doesn’t happen?