Matt Damon, 'months ago'

[elias7]

23. Some of the responses to him remind me of the opening line of The Great Gatsby

'In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. '

This has as broad a meaning as you want. As a nearly 60 year old, I regularly seek out my out of town daughter to explain things to me that have rendered many of my childhood experiences and understandings not only obsolete, but inappropriate. Just yesterday she explained to me why use of the pronoun they for a gender fluid person is followed by the plural “are” rather than “is”. I am Yale educated but that doesn’t mean I have all the advantages that many socially progressive people here on DU have had. It has taken me a long time to understand a lot of the changes that have happened over my lifetime, to unlearn those things I thought I knew well or thought was OK.

Give the guy a break. He’s on the right track and shouldn’t be ridiculed or being somewhat late to the party.