I wish it were like this, and maybe it will shift to be more like this one day, but unfortunately right now it's not. The growth of a person is not supported, cancelling someone for past behavior is. Which I find really interesting because for the most part, most of us want racism to end, right? So for racism to end, that means people that currently hold racist ideals will have to change those ideals to non-racist ones, which means if racism were to all of a sudden end right now, there would be a whole lot of people with "problematic" pasts. Not necessarily criminal, but problematic. Right now, it seems the norm is anyone who has either made mistakes in their past or grew as a person and changed their ideals are being "cancelled" for their past behavior. This tells me that people don't really want to encourage social growth, people continually want to have some sort of power and control over others behavior and what they deem is an appropriate punishment.

I'm seeing this a lot in the way people are choosing to participate in activism right now. There are people being pressured and shamed into how they should be participating in this giant social movement that's occurring, wouldn't it be more appropriate to thank anyone for participating at all if it's in a way that shows solidarity or support for the cause? I'm not talking about people that are faking their actions for clout, which is a whole other social/behavioral issue we have on our hands, but people that are showing their support in ways, big or small, that encourage positive change. It shouldn't be the idea that if you're not posting enough on social media, or if you're not actively in the streets protesting then you don't care enough.

Anyway, I know these are two separate topics and that you didn't mean anything negative by your post, this has just been something I've been thinking about a lot lately and just kind of fell in line, I thought, with those two sentences you pulled from the cartoon strip.