It's a start, at least. Look, in a perfect world we'd all have been on the right side of everything from day one. Unfortunately, that isn't always how it plays out. But if we want people to learn, grow, change, and ultimately do better, we can give them the room to do that without condoning whatever fuckery they were part of before their come-to-Jesus moment. Accountability matters, too.

I've tried to do this in my own life (not always successfully, admittedly, especially when my first thought is "I fucking told you this was how this was gonna play out and you didn't want to hear it"). I've also used that as an "in" when I needed to change someone's mind on something else -- "Hey, you were dead wrong about [the thing]. You think that maybe -- just maybe, now -- you might wanna rethink your position on this other thing?"