by snarly | Jul 16, 2019 | Religious Apologies
Writer/editor Liz Galst shared this wee teaching with Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in NYC and kindly gave us permission to post on SorryWatch. It seemed…relevant. Take it away, Liz! In [last] week’s parasha, Chukkat, the Israelites are complaining again....
by snarly | May 20, 2019 | The Mechanics of Apology
Hello, apology fans! Prompted by a SorryWatcher, we wanted to expound on this common phrase, as well as its corollary, “This is not who we are” — with “we” referring to an institution or country. DO NOT USE THIS PHRASE IN YOUR APOLOGY. At...
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...
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