File under "flying-pigs moments": the New York Times gets one right

From a piece by opinion page editor Susan Fowler about the Morion Picture Academy 86ing Kevin Hart as Oscars host:

This has become a familiar pattern: A celebrity makes news; his or her history is scoured for any wrong thing (and there is always something); the internet goes crazy.  It doesn’t matter whether the celebrity has changed his or her views and apologized in the past; the public still wants blood.

I’m not condoning Kevin Hart’s old jokes, and he isn’t either.  But I fear we’re creating a  disastrous precedent. In holding people accountable for their old views — even ones they realized were wrong and apologized for — we are setting standards that nobody can meet. We cannot expect to make progress if we do not allow people the chance to grow with us.

Although I don't know how much "growing" Kevin Hart needs to do. Any man is going to hope that his son is heterosexual so the family name and traceable lineage can continue. That's as primal as any human desire can be.

UPDATE: This is a great tweet:

As a gay man, I have no more interest in Kevin Hart being forced to grovel and apologize for his silly nonsense than I am in having bakers legally forced to participate in SSM ceremonies. What the left does, supposedly for our benefit, is repugnant.