I have heard the movie was great but haven't seen it myself. I liked the first one.
But here's the thing, I thought his apology was genuine.
What I appreciated about his statement was that he completely took 100% responsibility for it. He expressed that it doesn't matter what you mean in your heart when you say something like that, the words that you use can have inherent hateful meanings on their own. Which is such a powerful and important message especially for some of the young men in his fanbase. He did say that he used the word in anger, but otherwise offered no excuse for using it and said that he doesn't even deserve forgiveness and wasn't asking for it. As far as celebrity "apologies" go, it's the only one that I've ever heard that didn't suck.
Most celebrities say and do terrible things, and then ask the public to feel sorry for them or they just blow everybody off. So the fact that he didn't do either of those things was refreshing and made it seem like understood how idiotic he was. Most celebrities are too egomaniacal to respond like grown-ups to any kind of situation like this.
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Date: 2014-06-23 05:46 pm (UTC)But here's the thing, I thought his apology was genuine.
What I appreciated about his statement was that he completely took 100% responsibility for it. He expressed that it doesn't matter what you mean in your heart when you say something like that, the words that you use can have inherent hateful meanings on their own. Which is such a powerful and important message especially for some of the young men in his fanbase. He did say that he used the word in anger, but otherwise offered no excuse for using it and said that he doesn't even deserve forgiveness and wasn't asking for it. As far as celebrity "apologies" go, it's the only one that I've ever heard that didn't suck.
Most celebrities say and do terrible things, and then ask the public to feel sorry for them or they just blow everybody off. So the fact that he didn't do either of those things was refreshing and made it seem like understood how idiotic he was. Most celebrities are too egomaniacal to respond like grown-ups to any kind of situation like this.