> The deleted the joke and apologized pretty much immediately. But now it's fair game to release their private emails and generally insult them all over the internet?
Given that there is no confidentiality notice in the email, I don't see how either party could expect that the conversation was private.
More generally, if they didn't think it was offensive in the first place, why did they delete the joke? Why not stand behind it? Own up to it?
Do you expect some sort of mental erasure where everyone magically forgets that this happened in the first place?
> What's wrong with you? For someone pretending to be a sensitive person you're sure lacking in empathy.
Please tell me where Kyle signed a confidentiality agreement with Tom. If you point it out, I would agree that releasing the email is inappropriate.
> So, you don't know a single person in your life who is actually a very decent human being but made an "unacceptable" joke some time? You don't believe people can be just ignorant about a certain issue without being horrible people?
I fail to see how you can be ignorant about rape in the same way that I fail to see how you can be ignorant about murder or genocide. BTW: Note that I didn't use the word "unacceptable" in any of my responses here.
You are touching upon a key point, namely the long-term memory of the Internet. That's a much longer discussion, and I intentionally avoided judgment statements regarding the nature of the memory, but it would be to your benefit to act as if statements made on the Internet are in the public record