What's wrong with this is that he seems to feel that these tweets are really only an issue (i.e. being racist (black, hispanic, asian peoples alike), transphobic, anti-semitic, etc) in the context of current day. He should be apologizing for them being what they were then, and apologizing that he didn't know that at the time (or didn't care or care to understand), and apologizing that he left them up knowing as a social media influencer that his tweeting history is fully accessible to fans who would be offended or hurt and enemies who would delight in trying to cancel him.
What context or nuance does he want us to read them in, if we could go back to 2010-2012? Also, very few of the issues now at the forefront weren't unknown then, especially the ones that would apply. It's not like he said "cops are the best", he said cliche insults about many peoples that were well known to be offensive and bad then there just wasn't much consequence for using them in jokes. So is the new context actually just consequence?
As I've said before, I don't think he needs to be "cancelled", but I don't think this is the best apology statement he could have made. |
