Jimmy Swaggart offered this thoughtful apology, "If it's an insult, I certainly didn't think it was, but if they are offended, then I certainly offer an apology."
My, that's nice. What was he apologizing about? How he would response to the hypothetical advances of a gay man; "And I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died,"
Lovely. This sort of apology nonsense is ridiculous. You don't have to apologize, you blame the person for having to apologize to them, and kind of apologize all at the same time.
"If you are an idiot, and you interpret what I say incorrectly, and you get offended by your own misinterpretation, then in that case (and only in that case) then I apologize to you for saying something that you stupidly misinterpreted. Weazel."
If you have to apologize, which in this case Swiggart clearly does, then apologize. It goes like this, "What I said was stupid and insensitive. I apologize. I won't say dumb stuff like that again."
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