Is it wrong of me to not see this as a problem? A group of grown men decided to use their large platforms to mock someone, and now - gasp - other people are seeing that they were assholes.
Seriously, what's the problem?
It seems unfair, or unhealthy, even, that those go down on your permanent record.
Even if you don't slip up in that way, the constantly looming fear that you COULD is also unpleasant.
Basically I think it's healthier for all of us if we have the ability to move on from minor transgressions, and don't have to live in fear of making a thoughtless remark or a bad joke and being tarred forever as a jerk.
Or to put it another way, I don't think Steve Klabnik is any more of a jerk than the rest of us, he just happens to have caught the attention of the eye of Sauron for a moment.
The rest of us, seeing that, will perhaps be motivated to be EXTRA careful and kind at all times, but this is basically living life under a sort of panopticon, rather than in a geniune, moment to moment way.