@scalzi Public figures (at least those who generally come off as decent people) get held to impossibly high standards, and failing to meet those standards can come with very harsh, and often disproportionate, backlash. Obviously, there are some things that are bright lines, and those warrant noping out. But well-meaning people still exist in a fucked-up world, and that sometimes influences us to do the occasional fucked-up thing (this is especially true if one was raised in a fucked-up culture.)