I defended a coworker on Slack and got dragged for it

I work at a marketing firm in Denver and last week someone posted a screenshot of a client's old tweet from 2012 making a dumb joke. I said maybe we should focus on their current campaign instead of digging up ancient history, and three people called me a 'tone-deaf apologist' in the thread. Why can't we just admit people change in a decade without making it a whole thing?

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ivan_murphy806d ago

Yeah exactly, like the whole point of being human is that you're supposed to learn and grow from your mistakes. If we're all just gonna be judged forever for stuff we said as teenagers or in our early 20s then what's even the point of trying to be better.

baker.holly4d ago

Totally agree with both of you. It's like we've forgotten that people are supposed to evolve, right? Judge someone for what they did last week, sure, but dragging up stuff from ten years ago feels like a punishment for actually trying to be a better person. The internet loves to act like no one ever changes, but that's just not how real life works.

ward.jamie6d ago

Read an article the other day about how people are getting more polarized online and it's making things like this worse. A decade is a long time for someone to grow up and change their views, seems unfair to hold it against them forever.