I finally spoke up at a town hall meeting in Austin about a local artist getting dropped from a show

It was last month at the community center, and a panel was talking about a muralist who got cut from a project over some old social media posts. I raised my hand and said, 'But who gets to decide when a ten year old joke is a firing offense?' The room got really quiet for a second. Afterward, three people came up to agree with me, which felt like a small win. Has anyone else had a public moment that made them rethink how we handle old mistakes?

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susan_adams10d ago

So who picks the ten year cutoff?

nguyen.morgan10d ago

Remember a friend who almost lost a teaching job over a political bumper sticker from college. The school board dug it up fifteen years later. It made me wonder about @susan_adams' question on who picks the cutoff, because it seems totally random. They kept his job after a fight, but the whole thing felt like digging for a reason to be mad. It's scary how little it takes to wreck someone now over old stuff they forgot about.

faith_hart2010d ago

Actually, it's not random at all. Schools have to check if someone's old views could be a real problem now.