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>It's surely not your contention that said apologies sound hollow because there is nothing really to apologise for and therefore it is inherently untrue? I can
by huhkerrf 1y ago
>It's surely not your contention that said apologies sound hollow because there is nothing really to apologise for and therefore it is inherently untrue?
I can not understand at all how you got that from my message.
As for the rest of what you're saying. Yes, there's a way to apologize in a way that don't have those qualities, and it's apologizing directly to the people you've wronged, if you have. Apologizing to a faceless group is pointless.
- exasperaited 1y agoThat's why it was a question.
- exasperaited 1y ago> Apologizing to a faceless group is pointless. Well... it might be at least pragmatic. Apologising to the wider community for wronging a member of the community is normal; it's also expected. And I guess apologising to one's audience for not being who they think you are is essentially, the same thing, just with a parasocial twist. Parasocial "communities" exist (fandoms) and they do rather complicate things.
- Izkata 1y agoApologizing to the mob is more likely to backfire: It's seen as an admission of guilt and that they're right to "cancel" the person.
- Jensson 1y agoYeah, you should apologize before the mob forms. This is much more important for large corporations, if they do a big screwup and apologizes after massive backlash, that is bad, but if they apologize before the massive backlash its much better.