1) I don't think people should be fired for old tweets, unless they're still the same people they were when they said the thing
2) If your statement involves trying to get people to understand the context in which you tweeted "Hitler was right" you're not changed enough
2) If your statement involves trying to get people to understand the context in which you tweeted "Hitler was right" you're not changed enough
https://twitter.com/HalawaTala/status/1415269328560218119
There isn't really any context that makes it ok, or better, or whatever. And that's not something that "youth" or "ignorance" explains away; you knew enough to know that Hitler had murdered Jews, tried to exterminate us, and were saying he was right
Being pro-genocide isn't a function of youth, or ignorance. It's a function of a deep moral failing. And that you still seem to think it's somehow excusable is enough evidence, for me, that you still deserve to be fired
And before anyone asks "so what should she have said": "Seven years ago, three years before I started working at the BBC, I tweeted something profoundly inexcusable. It was bigoted, and shameful, and I will forever regret it. But I'm no longer that person and ..." etc.
That's it. Acknowledge that you fucked up. Acknowledge that it was inexcusable. And argue you shouldn't have been fired because you changed.
Not (subtext) "look, it was understandable that I was pro-genocide for a bit, then. It was wrong, but there were reasons"
Not (subtext) "look, it was understandable that I was pro-genocide for a bit, then. It was wrong, but there were reasons"
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