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?