The level of scrutiny changes based on how big your platform is tbh. If it’s a nobody who you go to work with then nobody will care, but if it’s somebody selling out arenas or running for office or in charge of an organization it holds more weight when you have a past in the eyes of the public. Is it realistic to expect perfection? of course not but it’s not wrong to want the best from your leaders. Nobody’s wrong for wanting the best from someone’s whole life, and nobody’s wrong for becoming better as their life went on. However the consequences of your actions following you really isn’t something thats up to you you cant really socially engineer or moralize people into wanting to forgive you for being bigoted in any way, you really just have to prove by your actions youre someone worth believing in in the present and you cannot just beg to be forgiven