tom king and his defenders even his begrudging ones cannot have it both ways. either the blood on his hands matters or it doesn’t. if he has to make his work about his guilt and therefore in the public eye, i have a right to judge him for it, and if it doesn’t matter and we should actually just leave it alone, then maybe he should stop talking about it, both in his own voice and in the massively public and platformed media presence of his career.
perhaps, even, one can say that a man with an unfathomable amount of blood on his hands should not have a massive media career at all, and that stating such is not tantamount to a microscopic of a fraction of retributive pain incurred proportional to the lasting harm associated with his previous career!
