A guy on the bus in Chicago called my defense of the Treviño firing "weak," and he was right

Oscar Scott · 2026-10-27T23:35:04.38625+00:00

Two months ago I posted here defending the museum that let its curator, Marisol Treviño, go after 14-year-old tweets about a comedian surfaced. I argued it was an overreaction and that her apology should've closed the case. A commenter named DwayneK wrote something simple: "You keep saying she apologized, but what did she actually do after? Apology isn't a plan." I sat with that for days and realized my whole argument leaned on the apology doing work it can't do. So now when I break down a cancellation here, I look for what the person actually changed, not just what they typed in the notes app. It's a small shift but it's changed how I vote on these threads. Does anyone else judge these cases by concrete follow-up instead of the apology post?

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