| ▲ | tropicalfruit 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
he was known as a master politician i think it's a bit unfair to judge him on some things he said privately to a friend. i've said a lot of things privately in my life that i would disown. but yeah he did a lot of bad things to a lot of people over the years according to some books i read. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | throwawaygmbno 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>i think it's a bit unfair to judge him on some things he said privately to a friend. I think it must be nice to think private racist thoughts expressed so regularly are just fine. Usually this kind of thinking is because the person can't ever imagine being affected by racism. I wonder how many people throughout his career he refused to work with, didn't hire, went after, because of their skin color. People aren't famously racist without ever expressing it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | mingus88 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think it’s absolutely fair to judge a person as a whole. It’s part of who they were. I heard Keanu Reeves anonymously donated millions to cancer charities. It’s private. Should we not include this in our assessment of his character? Or are we just excusing disgusting racism/sexism because Hogan did it with an inside voice? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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