Here’s what I mean. This may not be articulated super well, so bear with me:
Tier 1: “These people did horrific shit and we should generally expunge them from the societal record”
I don’t know if I would throw Hitler and Harvey W. on the same level, but let’s say both of them could be in this tier. Other dictators and just generally “bad hombres,” to quote some classic Trump in there too.
Tier 2: “Need to likely be cancelled, but there is some nuance here”
A good one for me on this would be Kavanaugh trying to get on the US Supreme Court a few years back. That became a very political, very divisive thing for sure. It eventually went “far left woke” vs. “far right let us be men,” and the Instagram/Facebook virtue-bombing about it was unreal. True story about that period: my cousin posted something online about hurting herself if he got on SCOTUS. I responded and, somehow within about 17 seconds, she told me that “my entire family hates me.” OK, cool. As I said, divisive issue.
So, if Kav raped a woman, he should be cancelled. I would say all rapists should be cancelled, generally-speaking, although then you can get into this whole rabbit hole about the point of the prison system. Is…
