How Far Back Should We Go To Look For Things To Be Outraged About?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57924885
sacked for being involved in something distasteful 23 years ago!
We've all done and said something stupid in out youth.

[burlyshirley]

We do already go back centuries don't we TTT ?

[naomi24]

That sort of thing should worry everyone.

[youngmafbog]

You must be cancelled - at any cost!

And show me your papers.

[NeedToKnowPlease]

Joking about the holocaust? Defending those joking about it? Sounds like a Nazi sympathiser.

[pixie374]

There really needs to be a limit on how far back individuals should be still held accountable for opinions. I think there was even a case recently, where someone wasn't even 18?

[pixie374]

Plus, it was a joke. Some people will find funny, some won't and some will find distasteful. But, I am always wary of jokes being banned- they are entirely different from intentions.

[roopower]

Slightly different, but I wonder when 'they' will start dredging through comedians back catalogues.

[jno]

I wonder if you'd say the same thing if he was leading the Labour party.

[davebro]

Hasn't Bill Cosby been freed because of the "Statute of Limitations"?

[pixie374]

I don't think so, dave. I thought it was from a previous "agreement". In any case, it's hardly the same as a non pc joke.