My thing about the Joe Bennett apology is that I'd buy him misspelling "jewelry". Like writing that backwards? How many people read that and didn't catch that? Easy miss, easy mistake. But how do you justify the Star of David? Granted throwing him up against Ardian Syaf (the last one to actually do something like this), Ethan Van Sciver, or Jon Malin who fully owned up to their bullshit when called out is a bit different when he actually bothered to make an apology. They were all just "Oh yeah fuck those people." Doesn't mean he isn't doing this thing intentionally and then backpedaling, but like also just seems like a weird amount of effort to go "oh man let's see who notices this shit and then forgiveness is easier than permission y'know."
Not condoning or forgiving, but just stacking him up against other similar artist incidents in the past few years in the era of Comicsgate and all that this just seems so remarkably off. Like you have to intentionally do that, and it's only for public consumption. It's not like someone leaked your texts, which are intended to be a private conversation.