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August 5, 2014

“Taking offense” is certainly on the offensive in our highly sensitive age.

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For some people it is a living. What else does Al Sharpton do, exactly, except lie in wait for someone who utters a thoughtless or indiscreet remark that can be ambushed as “racist”?
American universities employ squads of such thought police. These sensitivity thugs, on and off campus, seldom put away their cudgels until the offender recants and, of course, apologizes—publicly, tearfully if possible, and sometimes with the kind of shake-down side payment that acknowledges “I can never afford to do this again” and that Don Corleone could only envy. Do I have to add that the tears needn’t be sincere? Sincerity has very little to do with this racket. The apology game is about power, about bending or breaking the offender’s will, about exalting the will of the “offended.”
The Apology Game

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 5, 2014 9:41 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Apology? Isn't that nice.

Actual atonement works better.

DEMANDS for apologies, from the serially and professionally offended, probably ought to be met with the popular Punch In The Face.

Posted by: CaptDMO [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 5, 2014 2:53 PM

The way to apologize to idiots is with a good hard punch in the face.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 5:18 AM

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