My friend keeps saying a celebrity's apology video was 'good enough' and it drives me nuts

I was at a barbecue last weekend and my friend Mike brought up that whole thing with the comedian who got in trouble for those old tweets. He said the guy's apology video was 'good enough' and we should all move on. But Mike didn't even watch the full 8 minute video. He just saw the headline. I watched the whole thing, and the guy spent the first 4 minutes talking about how hard his year has been and only said 'sorry' once, at the very end. It felt like he was just sorry he got caught. It matters because if we call that a real apology, we're setting the bar way too low for people with big platforms. They need to show they actually get why what they did was wrong, not just that they're upset about the backlash. How do you judge if an apology is real or just damage control?

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elliot_roberts5d agoMost Upvoted

Totally agree... saw one where the guy cried more about his lost sponsors than the actual harm he caused.

felixm295d ago

Yeah, the part about them crying over lost sponsors hits hard. I mean, when the focus is on their own problems and not the people they hurt, it just feels fake. It's like they're reading a script their manager wrote. A real apology makes you feel like they actually sat with how their actions affected others, you know?

emma_rodriguez304d ago

I saw a local news story last year where a business owner gave a tearful press conference after a health code violation. He spent three minutes talking about his family's legacy and maybe thirty seconds on the customers who got sick. It happens everywhere, not just online. People get coached to protect their image first, and the actual apology gets lost. It makes you wonder if they'd even say sorry without a camera on them.