I’ve been in on cancel culture. I’ll freely admit it. When a photo surfaces of a politician wearing blackface in his college days, dump him. When TSN corroborated Akim Aliu’s allegation that Flames coach Bill Peters used the N-word around him with the Rockford IceHogs in 2009-10, he couldn’t have been fired fast enough for me. I was all over the Cubs for acquiring Aroldis Chapman and again for keeping Addison Russell. And if video surfaces of a coach — at any level — choking a player, I’ll be first in line to call for his head, no matter how old the incident.



But that’s the question we’re wrestling with as a society — how do we handle awful things people did a long time ago, things that they were never punished for in the first place? Do we punish them now? Do we put them on an ice floe and send them out to sea, never to be heard from again? There are some unforgivable actions — outright racism, full-blown...