Just apologize, dude. For REALZ.

[judecorp]

Okay, this is annoying. It's a total pet peeve of mine. Or really, more than a pet peeve. It's something that I get really REALLY angry about.

Pope sorry for reaction to his remarks.

I don't care if you are the Pope or whoever, you do NOT apologize for someone else's reaction. You apologize for your mistake, or your action, or your decision, or YOUR anything. "Apologizing" for someone's reaction or feelings is not apologizing at all!

I would feel a lot better if the article said, "Pope sorry for words spoken during oration," or something like that. Instead we get:

"At this time I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims," the pope said Sunday.

Few things irritate me more than when someone "apologizes" to me saying, "I'm sorry you're hurt/sad/upset." I tend to snap back, "Please don't apologize for me." I just can't stand it.

Way to victim blame, Pope.

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I actually looked and saw a little of it, and I can see how it kind of snowballed or whatever. Which of course it was going to. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that, you know? Someone should know better.

Sometimes I think people like to say hurtful things and then say "I didn't know!" or "it came from a book" or whatever. Like if I go up to you and say, "Hey Pru, look what it says about you in this book, it says you suck." And then you get upset and I'm all, "Well don't get mad at ME, I was just reading out of this book."

Idiots.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I get what he was saying, but it was the wrong way to say it. Meh. Silliness.