> she should have said "racist" tweets instead of "insensitive tweets" right? I think that is a reasonable ask. yes > However how should she have worded the a

> she should have said "racist" tweets instead of "insensitive tweets" right? I think that is a reasonable ask. yes > However how should she have worded the appology? "I am deeply sorry" would have been good. Or, "I am deeply sorry for < some variation of "what I said" or "my racist tweets">". I'm don't agree with > the former is a direct apology and admittance of wrongdoing towards another on her part When I read "sorry to anyone I offended", it is not an unconditional apology. She is not apologizing for what she did. She is apologizing *to those she offended*. Which is to say she is apologizing not for what she did but for the offense she caused. There is a crucial difference there. The former is taking responsibility for what she said. The latter, at best, makes no comment on whether or not what she said was wrong; at worst, makes a comment that what she did was not wrong but that she is only sorry because people took umbrage with it. From her words alone, we know she thinks what she said was "insensitive" and that she is apologizing to those that are "offended". If she's only acknowledging that her words are insensitive, it makes that sense she's apologizing directly to and only to those that she offended, which is why she would qualify her apology as such. This is not a statement that acknowledges that her words, in and of themselves, were wrong. In that regard, she may not be avoiding an apology in the absolute terms, but more importantly, as in all other cases where people only apologize for the offense, she is not (at the very least directly) acknowledging that what she did was intrinsically wrong, she is merely responding to the outrage. So you might say > I would guess she was genuinely sorry and you could be right, but when I read what she wrote, that does not come across. This > the former is a direct apology and admittance of wrongdoing towards another on her part does not come across at all when I read > I am deeply sorry to anyone I offended. To get that kind of interpretation, I would have to do some mind reading instead of taking her words for what they are.