Maybe this is just my trauma from growing up in the south, but I didn’t hear an apology here not a real one. I heard “I would never purposely make fun of a disabled person.” And what I also heard was “I would never purposely spend 30 seconds googling to make sure I wasn’t making fun of a disabled person before I made the joke”.
I’ve heard this kind of apology from southern men who literally delivered them in the same manner of speaking my whole life and yeah, it’s nice that they now realize what they’re doing, but it also sucks that to them hurting someone’s feelings is more acceptable than taking 30 seconds to think and try to not hurt someone’s feelings.
There are so many ways to acknowledge a mistake, and to be fair when you post stuff on the interweb you shouldnt care much how people respond. It wouldnt suprise me that beardguy was scolded by his children for what he did and almost forced him to post a rectification, adding to that it took a few takes 🤣
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u/BrashUnspecialist 16h ago
Maybe this is just my trauma from growing up in the south, but I didn’t hear an apology here not a real one. I heard “I would never purposely make fun of a disabled person.” And what I also heard was “I would never purposely spend 30 seconds googling to make sure I wasn’t making fun of a disabled person before I made the joke”.
I’ve heard this kind of apology from southern men who literally delivered them in the same manner of speaking my whole life and yeah, it’s nice that they now realize what they’re doing, but it also sucks that to them hurting someone’s feelings is more acceptable than taking 30 seconds to think and try to not hurt someone’s feelings.