by sumac | Feb 3, 2016 | Political Apologies
A person running for president said something snide, and later said he was apologizing for it. Sounds good until you seek the apology. The candidate isn’t expressing regret, he’s piling insults higher. In an ugly self-serving tirade – understandably...
by snarly | Aug 11, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
This morning, the web site Jezebel put up a post calling out its upper management. The post was headlined We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It. Basically, misogynist trolls have been posting multiple images of gruesome rapes and...
by sumac | Apr 21, 2014 | Academic apologies, Institutional Apologies, Youth apologizes
Zeman Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska, sent a flyer to parents of fifth graders with 9 rules for their kids. The rules are supposed to help kids stop being bullied, by turning bullies into friends. Wow! How empowering is that!?! Except that the rules are...
by snarly | Feb 21, 2013 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Liberals and conservatives alike are cranky at Colorado State Representative Joe Salazar, who reportedly said that women are more emotional and can’t be trusted with guns and keep thinking they’re going to be raped and shooting innocent people. Liberals...
by snarly | Nov 28, 2012 | Corporate Apologies
Good analysis of a corporate weasel apology over at Jezebel: An Australian cosmetics company ran an ad featuring a model in blackface, then pulled it, then trotted out a “sorry-if” and finally reinstated it. SorryWatch agrees with Jenna Sauers’s...
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