Arun Suryanarayanan
Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read

Yeah, I get what you’re saying about holding people accountable. It’s just justice is a very convoluted topic, and it’s not just Louis or celebrities, it’s just anytime someone commits an offense, they stop being human in the public eye. I’m talking from the perspective of this article I once read called “The rapist says he’s sorry”, by Tom Junod. It’s a fairly bleak piece, the victims are scarred for the rest of their lives, but it also gives a human account of the offender and his life in prison. It’s a nice read, if you haven’t read it already.

I don’t condone Louis’s behaviour at any point, all I was trying to say was, let’s not use the same power play to shut his voice down, let’s instead aim to educate on how power shouldn’t be abused. We’ve shamed him, there would be very few people that actually aren’t against what he did. We’ve already brought him down from his pedestal, so now let’s just aim to educate and not kick someone further when they’re already down. If we do that, that wouldn’t make us very different from the bullies that we seek to hold accountable.