Forgive Norm Macdonald? Not so fast.

Tricia Bishop’s column on forgiveness, “In Macdonald’s defense” (Sept. 14), starts with a valid statement: “Norm Macdonald has a point.” But it ends with the especially inappropriate statement: “I don’t think he did anything wrong.”

Not only does she acknowledge up front that his dismissals of the #MeToo movement and the trauma it addresses were “boneheaded,” but she completely skips over the major problem with his “apology” on “The Howard Stern Show” for his boneheadedness. As reported, Mr. Macdonald said, “You’d have to have Down syndrome to not feel sorry for” women who have endured sexual harassment and abuse.

Apparently, he knew it was politically incorrect to use the word “retarded” in place of “stupid,” but he did not understand why. To quote The Arc, “he chose to mock a group of people who have a much greater understanding of victimization than he does.” At least he understands he did something wrong, since he said on “The View” that “I realized at that moment that I had done something unforgivable.”

To quote Ms. Bishop again, “Norm Macdonald has a point.”