I don’t see him asking for forgiveness anywhere in the article. I’d like to think I see him trying to make himself and the world better through his actions now.
I was a teen in the 80s and a young make in the 90s. While I was always very uncomfortable with racism, homophobia, ablism and sexism I certainly witnessed a lot of all of them. At times I spoke up, at others I lacked the guts to say anything at all. I was an outsider myself, but only in the nerdy D&D guy sense, not any systemic stuff. But I didn’t feel at the time as if I had any social standing with which to call out such bullshit.
Obviously I was wrong and still feel terrible about some of the things I saw and (much worse) some of the things I heard people brag or talk about, and the fact I didn’t speak up enough. I can’t do much about that stuff now, but I can try to do better in my current life. I hope Albini is doing the same (tbh I’d never heard of him before this article).
