Watched a college kid get canceled for a joke she told in 2018

My niece sent me a link to a thread about a 20 year old girl who lost her internship because someone dug up a tweet she made when she was 17. I spent an hour reading both sides of the story, and what struck me was that nobody even tried to get the full context of what she meant back then. How do you decide where the line is between a dumb kid mistake and something that should follow you forever?

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the_beth14d ago

Is there any of us who wouldn't get canceled if our dumbest teenage thoughts got put on blast? I still cringe thinking about some of the stuff I posted on LiveJournal back in 2004, and I'm pretty sure a few of those entries would end me today. It just feels wrong to hold a kid to the same standard as a grown adult who should know better.

rowanc2914d ago

Honestly, @the_beth you're spot on with that "held to the same standard" thing, but here's what nobody's saying - a lot of those cringey teen takes were literally just us repeating whatever our parents or friends said without understanding it. We were basically little sponges soaking up all the bad takes around us. The real test is whether you still believe that stuff now, not that you said it when you didn't know any better.