by snarly | Apr 11, 2019 | Academic apologies, Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies, Youth apologizes
Does an apology erase the past? Of course not. But an apology still has value. A good one can help people who are hurt and angry feel better. That’s not nothing. The word “heal” is wildly overused (often by people who apologize badly, who use the...
by snarly | Jan 22, 2019 | Academic apologies, Religious Apologies, Youth apologizes
Belated Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019 good wishes from SorryWatch! Perhaps you’ve seen the video going around social media (and written about in Saturday’s New York Post and Daily News) depicting three white female students at Brooklyn’s elite...
by snarly | Jan 11, 2019 | Media Apologies, Personal Apologies
Are you bummed by the humungous number of insincere, self-serving, clueless, defensive “sorry if”s you’ve heard of late? Join us, won’t you, on a journey of thoughtful apologies! We have for your delectation a knitting magazine, a rapper, a...
by snarly | Jan 2, 2019 | Media Apologies
Oh, Will Shortz, no. SorryWatch loves the New York Times Crossword. SorryWatch does not love the apology for the use of an ethnic slur in a recent puzzle. Here’s editor Shortz’s apology: I’m very sorry for the distraction about BEANER (2D) in today’s fine...
by snarly | Sep 15, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies, Personal Apologies
The apology letter to Terry Crews (delightful, funny Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor) from Adam Venit (handsy, gross, disgraced movie agent who groped Crews’s genitals at a party) is really bad. Spectacularly bad. Bad enough to warrant its very own Bad Apology Bingo...