People have either memory holed how cruel the internet was in the 2000s, are gaslighting you into thinking it was a lot nicer than it actually was, or they weren't around for it. Like, they're straight up posting on a site run by a guy that said awful shit as recently as the mid 2010s. I don't buy for one second these people actually care about multi-year old transgressions, much less one from over a decade ago.
Comedians were still saying shemale and cheeseburger up till 2008. Ones you would call woke. Hell, sitcoms and simpsons were saying it.
That ep had Stephen Hawking. I always knew there was a reason I never became a theoretical physicist. We see you, wheelchair boy.
It wasn't till Obama got elected that people started thinking, "maybe we should start listening to that PC crap from the early 90's." It was a good idea until the millenials came around and turned it into a blood sport.
Now you can't even be a friend of a friend of a
friend who, "literally wants to kill me." Yeah, I'll read the national review if a headline catches my eye but not in public of course.