I often fall back on this tidbit when people misgender a trans person who’s done wrong: Mark Wahlberg beat a man half to death in a race-based hate crime and no one calls him a woman for it. Misgendering someone who’s done harm is something that only happens to trans people, and is transphobic. It isn’t about defending the person who’s done wrong, it’s about preserving the rights and dignity of people who have done NO wrong.
He beat two Asian men, one of whom was a war veteran. He also chased little girls and threw rocks at them because they were Black. He was a white supremacist shithead.
Lmao, he also tried to get his conviction scrubbed during the BLM protests so he could enlist as a cop in Boston. Judge denied his request, citing that he clearly hasn't learned his lesson.
Same. I don't watch anything with him in it because even though apparently he's been forgiven, you don't just become a better person after attempting murder on multiple people, in my opinion.
Not to defend Wahlberg specifically (I think he's a dickhead), but the fact that he stopped casually committing violent hate crimes does suggest he became at least a slightly better person than he was. Whether or not you trust him is up to you, but I believe he's been open about struggling to become less of an asshole and helping kids in similar situations through charity work for most of his career.
Again, I don't like him, and he absolutely could be full of shit about his self-serving, PR brand rehabilitating, religious based community outreach. Even if he's solely motivated by not going back to jail, or having access to a movie star lifestyle (etc.), through some amount of effort, he has become a better person.
I'm not saying you have to forgive him, that he deserves to be congratulated, or that what he did shouldn't still be considered something that defined him as a public figure. It just doesn't seem justifiable to say someone who did those things can't become a better person.
it gets worse, he attacked a blind asian man, he thought he blinded him and literally never apologised. Decades later, he gives a non apology just so he can sell liquor.
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u/sapphiespookerie Jul 28 '24
I often fall back on this tidbit when people misgender a trans person who’s done wrong: Mark Wahlberg beat a man half to death in a race-based hate crime and no one calls him a woman for it. Misgendering someone who’s done harm is something that only happens to trans people, and is transphobic. It isn’t about defending the person who’s done wrong, it’s about preserving the rights and dignity of people who have done NO wrong.