where we regularly used racial and ethnic slurs in the late 80's and early 90's with no real understanding of what they meant, the ugly history, and that we were doing anything wrong. Looking back, it's mortifying to think about.
That came at me pretty hard.
There's a huge gulf between using a slur while online and getting in someone's face and acting like a monkey.
It shouldn’t, and won’t, ruin your life if you take accountability for what you did, show genuine remorse, and work to change. Just look at Meyers Leonard.
Alternatively, you can go the Rittenhouse direction, in which case yes, polite society will reject you. But even then, there are probably enough regional conservative conferences out there to scrape by on the speaker circuit if you decide not to change.
This isn't some high school kid's tweet coming back to bite them in the ass. This is an adult that chose his actions, and those actions have consequences.
I mean, he goes to Ole Miss. And that doesn't stand for "Old Miss"
The university's byname "Ole Miss" was first used in 1897, when it won a contest of suggestions for a yearbook title.[22] The term originated as a title domestic slaves used to distinguish the mistress of a plantation from "young misses".[23] Fringe origin theories include it coming from a diminutive of "Old Mississippi",[24][25][26] or from the name of the "Ole Miss" train that ran from Memphis to New Orleans.[22][27] Within two years, students and alumni were using "Ole Miss" to refer to the university.[28]
The internet is forever.
No real need to take it any further. *
FAFO
Lots of puns, no real answers101