TBH, maybe this is what's broken in current society. We've forgotten how to be human with each other. People make mistakes, have emotions, say stupid things - that's part of being alive.
This era is teaching us to behave like robots: always correct, always perfect, never wrong. But that's not how humans work. We need space to be messy, to fuck up, to learn. Cancel culture is just another form of control - instead of cops and bosses, now it's constant surveillance by everyone of everyone.
Maybe real freedom means accepting that people are flawed and forgiving them for being human.