This may not be a good thing, but it does seem to match what you'd expect the human attitude to be. Consider what the typical, initial human reaction to someone named Adolf would be.
If you are an outlier in the data, you will remain an outlier in the system.
This is terrifying.
Do you ever see anybody change their opinion? Usually they won't change simply after hearing an argument. They change only when they have an utterly different life experience. In other words, only when they are conditioned by new data, in no ways different from how an AI changes its opinion.
I know my reaction is more to the surname than the first name.
Joseph has a solid anchor as a biblical name, though, and Stalin wasn't condemned nearly as much as Hitler was.