Turns out a longtime friend of mine who I lost touch with a bit for the last few years has been in a relationship with an ex taxi skin who was in a pretty hard-core fucking gang. He's got tatts still. When another pal saw them he went off about how ashamed he is of it and how that's not him anymore and blah blah blah. This is a guy who was in a violent right wing street gang. He hurt people. Don't throw a fucking pity party when you can even bother to get your nazi tattoos covered up. You've gotta make at least an attempt at reparations, if he's not spending more time volunteering to make up the damage he's done than he did doing hate crimes, fuck him.
That’s always bugged me, there’s no shortage of smarmy assholes who eagerly tell you that “respect is earned and not given.”
But western culture seems mortified of the idea that instead, it is forgiveness that is earned rather than something people are entitled to.
Turns out a longtime friend of mine who I lost touch with a bit for the last few years has been in a relationship with an ex taxi skin who was in a pretty hard-core fucking gang. He's got tatts still. When another pal saw them he went off about how ashamed he is of it and how that's not him anymore and blah blah blah. This is a guy who was in a violent right wing street gang. He hurt people. Don't throw a fucking pity party when you can even bother to get your nazi tattoos covered up. You've gotta make at least an attempt at reparations, if he's not spending more time volunteering to make up the damage he's done than he did doing hate crimes, fuck him.