What If Harriet Tubman Was A Transphobe?

Would that negate her role in the Underground Railroad?

Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash | Was she a transphobe? Who cares?

Should we zero in on a person’s biggest faults? Well, yes, if they are REALLY BIG and especially if that person is in a position to do great harm.

If Hitler was a better-than-average painter — and despite the drubbing his paintings get from critics, he certainly could paint significantly better than I do! — he’d still get overall really bad grades in the merit department…with carrying out a Holocaust and starting a World War and all that.

And, of course, he deserves to “be cancelled.”

That said, I think that overall, the standards for cancelling people in the real world are often rather weak. And certainly inconsistent. Nobody here seems to be calling balls and strikes. Of course, even baseball rulings don’t always seem to be objective. But I’ll give umpires the credit they deserve. They certainly TRY to be fair.

Not so much the billionaire who fueled some right-wing Congresspeople to eviscerate three women presidents of highly-regarded universities. As most of us recognize, Bill Ackerman, a right-wing billionaire, wanted to take down a few liberals, in this case academics. He largely succeeded, although he needed to add ammunition in the form of plagarism charges against Harvard’s president Claudine Gay.