Apologising to perpetually offended Americans just reinforces their behaviour.
Let them flag your posts as much as they like, it means they lost the argument and have absolutely nothing of value to add to the discussion.
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Ok, I will try to break it down. When you have several people calling out your action, do you internalize that maybe you are the problem? Or do you make a blanket apology because you don’t get it? Did another thread even need to be made at all, or would it have been better to have apologized in the one where you saw people getting offended?
Depends on the offense. If someone systematically downs your gender in a forum, then figures deleting the offensive posts hours after putting them out there makes it right, does that not send up a flag to you? It comes down to understanding your offense and not doing it again, not deleting it later with a “my bad” especially when they have done it on several occasions.
And yes, I am hoping for the best with Elae. I don’t think he’s a lost cause in the slightest, rather than flagging them and having them silenced, I’d rather hash it out as we have here. Only time will tell.
Well the thing I’ve noticed is that it might be right-wing groups that are saying that, but when balancing my own Judeo-Christian beliefs and values, is that yeah on one hand people would do well to not too sensitive in some cases, BUT that also needs to be balanced with encouraging people to express their views gently and in the most respectful manner possible I know it sounds like a bit of a contradiction though
That would require a degree of self-awareness that OP seems to lack.
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You know, all that sort of materialized around me as I was typing.
I poked my head back up to a new landscape that doesn’t really seem to need my two cents, so I will happily take it with me and leave the thread in your collectively competent hands.
Kind of you to reply with aplomb.
Happy posting.
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Happy Gaming to you!
what a cute disturbed vision of reality, it sounds exactly what i expect from an angered teen.
to begin with, a true apology is only made to those who deserve it, people dont actually bother to do that to people that will abuse you for that, in most cases a situation where you actually need to do that for that kind of people is really rare.
I was more referring to the tangents that took off in this thread. “Thanks for the apology” and no one responding to that person again would have kept them from continuing to poorly dominate the conversation.
Regarding the OP, I’ve only recently started reading the forums but I’ve picked up on the same repeat issues you’re referencing and I appreciate the work you’re putting into accountability and teaching. Best of luck to you both.
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I am just ignoring that fox tbh as I really don’t think at this stage they have anything of value to contribute that will help with reconciliation or healing, sorry if that sounds mean
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Did you lose your trust level 3 over it?!?!?!
Never apologize. Ever.
Over some comment a little while ago that I didn’t even understand why but now I get it that I accidentally said something racist, should really proof read my posts more and when I make a point, if I must use an example I will stick to fictional examples only, but in all honesty I think I am going to steer away from too much controversial stuff now
Am I the only one that still has no idea what is going on here? 
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You know what happens when you get offended?
Nothing.
Now be an adult and move on.
and then they swipe your credit card and buy 10 wow tokens, 3 50 inch flat screen tvs and 50 pizzas.
/not sorry~ not aloud to be sorry. guess i’ll do it again U.U
OP said something dumb in another thread, but doesn’t understand what he said or why it was dumb.
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I said something stupid in another thread, initially didn’t know what it was, but got a notification saying that a post of mine had been flagged/buried by the community so I panicked and realized that whatever I said offended and upset people, better come here and apologize for it, as if I didn’t try it could mean a potential forum ban or whatever.
Nah I found out the post it was in question during this thread, when I typed it, I thought it was just a passing comment, if I could word it again, I would simply say that my guild is fine, doesn’t have some of the dramas it has in the past and would have left it at that. I shouldn’t have gone into any detail.
I don’t think it was that thread though. You made some rather disparaging remarks in the thread where the guy got called out for trying to call out Latin American servers. I remember the flag exactly, that post is gone. You talked about living in an area where you witnessed a domestic violence incident and then carried on with a pile of stereotypes against them. I don’t flag often, maybe twice a month, I would have flagged that post but so many others had done it already.
Well I simply won’t talk about that anymore and keep those thoughts to myself unless someone asks me what I think
In a sense it is, it’s saying you didn’t intend to do what it is you’re apologizing for.
Thing is, an apology is actually something special. For an apology to be sincere, true and heartfelt, one must stop doing the behaviour that they ended up apologizing for.
If you don’t stop screwing with others, then your apology is fake which in turn would make you fake.
I hope that made sense. My son speaks so much better than I do.
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