| re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:19 pm EDT 08/20/20 |
| In reply to: re: Rainbow apologizes in the Advocate - Michael_Portantiere 10:36 pm EDT 08/20/20 |
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| We each get to decide whether or not to buy his sincerity, of course. But the part that did not sit well to me was the linkage of what "the nefarious people" are doing now and the fact that these awful things have come to light. What other reason is there for mentioning them (and I don't doubt they exist) in the apology? To me what he is saying is that we would not be talking about his past words (and he would not have had to take them down) but for these people dredging up the old tweets. And when you marry that to his now-deleted recent tweet (his original reaction to the disclosure) in which he said "I don't know why people try to start shit with me" my takeaway is that what he regrets is the detour to the roll he is on currently on. To me that is blaming someone for his predicament rather than owning his earlier misdeeds. I feel sure I believe those "people" are as "nefarious" as he does but that's no defense to an ugly truth; it's trying to change the subject. |
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