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You really asking this. We know why. This is what public figures and the public do now.
The question is, do we learn to NOT lionize leaders? Will we learn that putting men on pedistals enables this kind of behavior. It's a pattern that is so obvious it doesn't feel worthy of attention.
Fair. I'm just annoyed because I got like 3 emails about this over the past 2 days, from the CFA, from the President of the CSU System, bla bla. All acting so shocked. I want to send them this meme
Oh I can only imagine the pearl clutching. One of their darlings was a monster. Shocker. And those orgs live on virtue signaling.
The bad thing about this is that it all shows that exposing monsters does hurt a movement. After all, that's why so many don't expose this sort of stuff when Christian leaders are the monsters. Or the civil religion has a lion that eats the cubs.
IMO the reaction feels overwrought. So he was an asshole. Tons of historical figures are assholes. Did you support his cause or did you worship the man? Why are you genuflecting over this?
I've gotten multiple hyperreactive emails from the California Faculty Association about this, all with overwrought emotional language. I just roll my eyes.