Question for the forum. Does anyone care about this stuff?
If a black comedian dressed as a white person, would he be giving a tearful apology now? Are a significant amount of people actually offended?
I can't speak for everyone, but these cases have always seemed bizarre to me: they seem to lack an interpretive distance. As we know, mores and standards change over time; it'd be silly to deny that.
That said, even if this change about what's acceptable is occurring more rapidly (and, at times, by more of a mob mentality and fear) due to a social media era, I've never understood the point of either a) condemning people for not practicing modern standards (disliking something is different from condemning it) or b) denying someone the position to have changed.
The latter irritates me more: the smug arrogance of 'cancel culture' suggests that, because someone's own changing sensibilities are offended (often times just jumping on a bandwagon to fit in), the accused is permanently/atemporally a horrible person, and any apology is insincere because they were 'caught.' Obviously, I don't mind genuine injustices being called out, but when you're a hammer in search of a nail, absurdities like this occur.
(So too, esp. in the US climate right now, I'm not telling other races to 'take it on the chin'; my point is, again, one of hermeneutics. Ought we look at all past differences with suspicion/disgust, or have the ability to disagree and move on?)