Redemption doesn’t mean not living with what you’ve done.

He had already apologized to Megan, publicly and privately. But “I’m sorry” doesn’t mean much without any specifics (see also: “I’m sorry if you’re offended”) so the point of this was to demonstrate that he actually knew what he was apologizing for, knew how it had affected her, and to show that he was working to…

If you stopped listening to Harmontown in early 2017 you have missed some fantastic episodes of Harmontown.

Everybody needs to decide for themselves whether they want to forgive him. But I think there is a great value in acknowledging the earnestness of the apology, and that he did it the right way - acknowledging not just that he did these things, but the ways he lied to himself to avoid thinking he was doing something…

He’s also not proposing he get a medal. I don’t think he apologized to get absolution, or kudos, but because a public admission that he did this terrible thing to her, and that it was 100% his fault, is something that was necessary, at the bare minimum, for him to do for HER.

Agreed. There has to be some sort of attainable form of restitution - it doesn’t have to be the same for everyone but as a society we can’t just say all crimes, all indiscretions are all irredeemable. Otherwise, whats the point for those who did wrong to contemplate their actions? I don’t think the world should…

He’s also been open about his continuing therapy for years (I stopped listening to harmontown earlier in 2017 when I got tired of hearing him talk about Trump and not bring anything funny or insightful to it). So I don’t think he’s a good person/boss yet (I certainly wouldn’t want to work for him), but he’s shown that,…

“But let’s continue to analyze the meaningfulness of apologies people won’t even stick to...”

Can’t say I’m all that surprised to hear that he had some issues in the past with women, you could kind of see it with how he treated some characters on Community. I found the development of Britta in the show to be fairly mean spirited. She kinda started out as having her heart in the right place, but being a little…

That was a good apology. If you listen to it, he actually gets choked up a couple times. I’m not proposing we give him a medal. But Ganz forgave him. It is plausible this was an isolated (years-long) incident, as he’s vaguely alluded to this specific case before. And if we want healing and lasting change, we need…

So is the appropriate response to Harmon, or anyone who makes about the best apology possible, to just acknowledge that they are/were a piece of shit and maybe stop hating him? Not saying forgive him, but just reset to neutral? Maybe? No apology is every going to make the act excusable, but true, self-aware remorse is…

Wait, doesn’t this apology map to his story structure theory?

Harmon is and has been notoriously miserable to work with. Since like, I don’t know... Computerman days?

When will people stop being shocked that many writers and directors are autocrats with control issues?

That actually does sound like a good apology. Not sure what that does to Harmon going forward, but it is a real actual apology. He still sounds miserable to work with, but the most important thing is that Ganz was able to gain some peace from it.

While I know plenty of people who voted for Trump who aren’t disgusting pieces of crap, his most ardent followers certainly fit into this mold from what I’ve seen. Tried to engage a guy on Facebook the other day who was claiming that CNN isn’t a legitimate news source and it turned into him calling me and another guy…

How dare you post such a vile story without a trigger warning!

At least you got your George Soros check in the mail

I was having a pretty good day today. I’d aborted over a dozen babies, I’d gotten a couple of conservative co-workers fired for “hate speech”, and so for lunch I decided to visit Wendy’s. Not to purchase any food—like my fellow elites I only eat artisan kale salads prepared by women in hijabs— but rather to mock the…

Nirvana’s version of “Man Who Sold The World” from MTV Unplugged is fantastic.