Who's Apologizing Now?
Andrew Young over remarks made about Jews, Koreans, and Arabs (must reflect his years at the UN...)
His sequence follows the latest APOLOGY 1-2-3 trend we're noticing:
1) Say or do something despicable (drunk Mel Gibson; Andrew Young)
2) Pubicly APOLOGIZE for the remarks - sometimes more than once
3) Justify the behavior with "This is not how I really feel about these (people, this topic, that situation) and these words should never have been said" and then try to put it in some kind of lame context. (I was drunk, I meant Atlanta....whatever)
Apologies should carry at least a smidgen of ACCOUNTABILITY, for crissakes. But, sadly, no. The new method is to implement Apology 1-2-3 and think it's over.
Post An Apology thinks not! This is a lame-ass way of wiggling out of it. Or maybe.....
These icons of our culture are saying what they SECRETLY feel and they're not REALLY sorry! That must be it! They're just paying lip service to the public and movin' on, those rats.
Anyway, here's Andy's sequence:
1. (Despicable Act) "You see those are the people who have been overcharging us," he said of the owners of the small stores, "and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs."
His sequence follows the latest APOLOGY 1-2-3 trend we're noticing:
1) Say or do something despicable (drunk Mel Gibson; Andrew Young)
2) Pubicly APOLOGIZE for the remarks - sometimes more than once
3) Justify the behavior with "This is not how I really feel about these (people, this topic, that situation) and these words should never have been said" and then try to put it in some kind of lame context. (I was drunk, I meant Atlanta....whatever)
Apologies should carry at least a smidgen of ACCOUNTABILITY, for crissakes. But, sadly, no. The new method is to implement Apology 1-2-3 and think it's over.
Post An Apology thinks not! This is a lame-ass way of wiggling out of it. Or maybe.....
These icons of our culture are saying what they SECRETLY feel and they're not REALLY sorry! That must be it! They're just paying lip service to the public and movin' on, those rats.
Anyway, here's Andy's sequence:
1. (Despicable Act) "You see those are the people who have been overcharging us," he said of the owners of the small stores, "and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs."
2. (Public Apology) Young, 74, a former mayor of Atlanta and a former U.S. representative at the United Nations, apologized for the comments and retracted them in an interview late Thursday. Less than an hour later, he resigned as chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group created and financed by the company to trumpet its accomplishments.
3. (Justification) "It's against everything I ever thought in my life," Young said. "It never should have been said. I was speaking in the context of Atlanta, and that does not work in New York or Los Angeles."
