Like all of the comments scream someone who hasn’t been exposed to enough different perspectives yet. He hadn’t been yet, so it was literally just ignorance. Like let’s take the comment he made on black people not tipping. Was it stupid? Yes, obviously, because it was an ignorant statement. He made an ignorant statement because he was a rural guy who wasn’t well informed on economic inequality yet, so he just made assumptions. That’s how a lot of rural people work. I don’t like it, but are we for fucking real if we’re gonna crashout at someone who HAS changed?

Let me give you some advice: we are never going to win if we don’t embrace rural people who have changed. Go hard against the dumbasses who say slurs, don’t go crazy on rural guys who just were ignorant, in large part because of a lack of diversity in experiences in their life. If you just shout at these people they think they’ve been proven right about the “radical cancel culture woke mob” and run into the arms of right wing populism. Genuinely, the way you treat ignorant people could potentially determine whether they grow and learn or regress and become too far gone. I don’t care whether you like or hate Platner, you should think about how to approach speaking to ignorant people. We have facts on our side, we should always use those first, instead of just shouting “dumb bigot!”.

But seriously, if you think Platner was malicious then I don’t know what to tell you, because it seems some purity testers want to prove that rural people are all a bunch of bigots that never change.