I didn’t know what they were because they’re in black and white, not to scale, and because there’s more to tree identification than just leaves (bark, scent, tree size, etc.). Also, if you can’t identify a tree with certainty when you’re teaching a class, you never guess. Don’t throw out a guess because you THINK you’re right. You should KNOW that the info you’re teaching is 100% true. It’s better to say “I don’t know, but I’m going to find it out” than it is to say “I think it’s this but I’m not sure and I just want to sound smart”. that’s just risky bullshitting.

Yeah people change, but if they never acknowledge their mistakes or try to cover it up, than there’s no way to tell that they’ve improved. This specific example is dumb as hell, but in general people gotta be held accountable to their past mistakes no matter how long ago it was.

Yes, but we gotta put old outdated media in the context of “this was ok then, it’s not ok now”. There’s nothing wrong with pointing out that the show has flaws. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying said flawed show. But if you watch it without acknowledging that some parts of it are not ok by modern standards, people are gonna think that that stuff is ok today.

That makes some amount of sense, I guess?