CarnalK
January 17, 2019, 1:26pm
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iiandyiiii:
I offered that as one possible example of evidence that he was serious about trying to make up for his misdeeds. I’m not sure why that would be a weird or unusual assertion – if a famous entertainer did something seriously morally wrong, then it seems reasonable that a former fan would urge him to demonstrate honest and humble contrition, which might take quite a while, before considering paying for his entertainment again.
It’s not about “groveling apology” or “I’m totally woke” – it’s about demonstrating some sort of self-awareness about the bad things he’s done, and why these actions were bad, and how they harmed people, and being sorry about it because of those things, not because it hurt his career. There’s no legal requirement for him to do this, but I think there’s a moral requirement. YMMV, but I’m not sure why this strikes you as such a “frigging” unusual suggestion.
You are misremembering. It wasn’t one possible way, it was your bare minimum.
I think his apology was, at best, a tentative first step, and IMO he’d need to do a lot more to demonstrate that he’s learned from his mistakes, regrets them, fully understands why they were wrong, apologizes and makes amends to each person whose consent he violated, and pledges to donate the majority of his earnings going forward to fighting sexual assault, at a bare minimum, before I’d even consider seeing him live again.
And I am not going to explain why pledging the majority of his earnings to charity in order to win your ticket purchase is over the top. That is obvious enough to rational people.