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especially when you consider comments or actions that are very far in the past that the person in question has apologised for sincerely and viewed in the context of the rest of their beliefs and behaviour. For example,

- Al Franken being hounded out of the Senate on the basis of unsubstantiated groping accusations and a joke photo of him honking a sleeping woman's breasts
- Justin Trudeau wearing blackface when he was in high school 25 years ago
- Joy Reid almost being drummed out of her MSNBC job for 10+ year old blog posts speculating on whether politicians were gay or not

To your example, is it reasonable for your company to be trolling through your 2005 Facebook posts essentially looking for excuses to fire you, especially where our understanding of issues has since moved on and something that may have been broadly acceptable decades ago isn't anymore? That's the equivalent of what prominent public figures face and it means otherwise decent people don't bother going into politics.