I agree with your implication that "cancel culture" and "presumption of guilt" are major problems in the zeitgeist - strongly agree. But I don't think this is a small mis-step. I think this is a clear bad faith error.
I've had plenty members of my teams say questionable things over the years. But in almost every case, the questionable statement was not in bad faith and did not invoke verboten. So I debrief the situation and coach for better outcomes in the future. The 2 times where things were bad faith / verboten I terminated swiftly.
I've had plenty members of my teams say questionable things over the years. But in almost every case, the questionable statement was not in bad faith and did not invoke verboten. So I debrief the situation and coach for better outcomes in the future. The 2 times where things were bad faith / verboten I terminated swiftly.
He's not hiding from what he said. Its just in today's snowflake world people are being absolutely ruined because of one small mis-step in something they said. Not sure that any Gays are going jump off a bridge because of what this guy said.