Our Golden Age of the Craven Apology

American Thinker.com ^ | May 1, 2021 | Christopher Skeet

[Kaslin]

Last year, a 15-year-old clip of America’s Next Top Model was dug up in which host and supermodel Tyra Banks was being painfully honest when she told one of her show's contestants that the gap between her front teeth was "not marketable." Predictably, legions of less comely fans slammed Banks for "shaming" the contestant. To Banks's credit, she didn't give the quivering self-debasement the mob rabidly craved. She agreed her comments were “insensitive” but never disavowed them, and tossed the mob some rhetorical table scraps about "showcasing different ideals of beauty" which did nothing to alter the unfortunate fact of her original assertion. Tyra Banks is a supermodel.

I would have preferred Banks to tell her critics to go pound sand. But in today's cancel culture climate, an evasive faux-apology is the best we Americans can hope from our celebrities, especially in light of the following examples:

Old pictures were dug up of white actress Florence Pugh donning corn rows and Rastafarian attire. Cue online mob. In response to accusations of cultural appropriation, Pugh blathered, "I was uneducated. I was unread...our ignorance and our white privilege...I could see how black culture was being so obviously exploited ... white fragility coming out plain and simple ... growing up white and privileged ... a culture was being abused for profit ... To see change I must be part of the change ..."

Actress Rachel Griffiths posted Instagram pictures of her fresh manicure at a time when she should have been posting support for the George Floyd insurrectionists...er, I mean, "mostly peaceful" protesters. Cue online mob. Griffith responded, "I did not intend to trivialise ... Thank you to the people who have called me out ... I have along (sic) way to go to truly understand my white bitch privilege ..."

[Dad was my hero]

along the lines of cultural appropriation, I wonder when the “woke” mob will turn their sights on all these mixed race couples we see in commercials. Isn’t that breaking the lines of segregation which it seems has become in vogue again?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The apologists should take their cue from the movie about Judge Roy Bean, in which he addresses a group of "ladies" from the town, infuriated because he has called them whores:

I understand you've taken exception to my calling you whores. I'm sorry. I apologize. I ask you to note that I did not call you callous-ass strumpets, fornicatresses, or low-born gutter sluts. But I did say whores. No escaping that. And for that slip of the tongue I apologize.

[Bayard]

Used to be the word apology meant to give an explanation and defense, now it means to express regret and admission of guilt

[ronniesgal]

somebody should tell Ashley Graham she’s not a bikini model. Mention this to Lizzo too.

[Gnome1949]

It’s funny how we never see celebrities or billionaires apologizing for flying in their kerosene-guzzling private jets. They fly those jets to gatherings where climate change is the hot topic.

Has Mark Zuckerberg apologized for buying another 600 acres on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai for $35 million which he obviously does not need for extra privacy?

Has the same Mark Zuckerberg apologized for excluding conservative people or viewpoints from his facebook platform?

Have any Leftists apologized to President Donald Trump for the four years of slanderous lies they publicly told about him? When will they apologize for TWO FALSE IMPEACHMENT EFFORTS using false accusations against President Trump?

[Gnome1949]

Now, my young grandsons are supposed to apologize for being born caucasian (or biologically male) over which they obviously had no control.

The Left are raving lunatics and should be declared mentally ill for pushing this nonsense.

[Bratch]

[Bonemaker]

"...Pugh blathered, "I was uneducated. I was unread...our ignorance and our white privilege..."

[Bonemaker]

"Our Golden Age of the Craven Apology..."

[x]

What if “cultural appropriation” is actually assimilation to what is becoming the new cultural mainstream? African-Americans are a big part of American culture and are presumably going to become an even bigger part (if there still will be an American culture). Isn’t it inevitable that some White people will pick up styles and fashions from Black culture when it’s put in the spotlight by the media?

[sauropod]

/eyeroll

[Hiddigeigei]

“Gat-toothed I was, and that became me well. I had the print of Sainte Venus’ seal.”