[hugi]

This is a popular excuse when horrible people are called out for what they are. "Won't someone please think of the children".

Well, it's they themselves that should have thought of their families. It's not our fault when we say exactly what they were.

[ethbro]

Calling out, in my book, requires an intelligent, thoughtful treatment of the behavior and subject.

GP took a cheap quip at a dead man, for laughs and karma.

And just because he was (by all accounts) an asshole, that flies? And doesn't just fly, but inspires righteous indignation that anyone would feel it's disrespectful?

Be the change you want in the world.