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[Mr. X]

Pointless to pick apart the exact wording of the video, it's clear from the context of it that his intention is to say he isn't brushing it off or trying to claim people shouldn't be offended, he's accepting he fucked up and intends to do better.

Whether or not you believe his apology is sincere is completely up to you but claiming that because he said 'if' he doesn't mean it is just misrepresenting his statement.


Personally I'm inclined to believe he is sorry and that he intends to do better, but given the fact that this is the second one of these videos he's made this year, I'm also inclined to believe him when he says that he's an idiot. I don't have much faith that he'll be successful in his endeavours.

"I'm sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that"

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Non - apology.
Doesn't even acknowledge what he said; just that he was caught.

 

[old manatee]

how does monetization work on Youtube?

Do you just toggle a switch for every video you put up, and then ads get put on it?

or is it like a global setting, where all your videos get monetized?

You turn them on for each video because not all videos can be monetized.

 

[L Thammy]

Nothing. There is literally *nothing* that actually counts as racism nowadays apparently, because being called a racist is the most evil and worst thing in the entire world.

People who were carrying burning torches chanting "Jews will not replace us" were fine people, and peoples concerned about their heritage and the beautiful parks. People who scream the N word as an insult are just kids (27 year old kids apparently!) in the heat of the moment.

There is nothing that can't be hand waved away as not being racism.

This is what I've been saying. A "racist" is like a mythical beast to people. You've got to have poison in your veins, you've got to breath smoke that turns men into stone, you've got to be born from an egg laid by a rooster and hatched by a snake.

It's not just that there's no action that they're willing to label someone a racist for. It's that the label is so terrifying that it's totally divorced from action. It's some immutable part of you, it's a different species altogether.



As for PewDiePie's response. I'd generally like to be forgiving - I had a 4chan phase that I hope I grew out of, and I hope other people can grow out of it too.

But the thing that makes me suspicious is that he's still not saying where he came from. Why was that the word he jumped to? It makes it sound like the word just popped out of the ether and into his brain. He calls it the worst word he could possibly think of. Why is that the worst word?

Okay, no excuses, that's fine. But I'm not interested in hearing you talk about how bad you feel, I want to know that you've learned from the experience and will do better. I don't think feeling bad means introspection has happened. Apologies that are centered around how bad you, the offender, feels are often the product of someone who doesn't care about anything about their own feelings.

He does acknowledge that he should have learned something from past controversies. But having looked and his Twitter and such, his attitude was that he was gloating over his controversy. He was flaunting the fact that he hadn't learned. He makes it sound like he just realized that he learned nothing, and I know he already knew he hadn't learned anything.

He denies that he thinks he can get away with saying anything at all, but that's been the core of his behaviour behind the past few controversies.

I got burned by Nick Robinson's apology, so maybe I'm being overly hard here.

 

[davepoobond]

Fuck the wording. The apology isn't genuine anyway.

Are his apologies ever genuine?

I'm starting to feel like this is his new schtick as his audience gets older

 

[Two Words]

"Sorry to everyone that I've offended" would have been better, but "Sorry if I offended anyone" is borderline refusing to admit wrongdoing, or at least, it's definitely a failure to acknowledge that what you did IS offensive and understand why it's offensive.

Anyway, I wouldn't have believed even a better-worded apology from this guy because it's clear he doesn't give a shit.

That's better, but it's best to just apologize to everybody. There are many people he didn't offend, but instead gave them a little more reason to make them feel okay saying that word. And he should be sorry for that too.

 

[MIMIC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLdxuaxaQwc

His response video

other than the "sorry if I offended", he's not being defensive about it

This video really reminds me of the whole Jamis Winston debacle. He gives a sincere apology about how much he fucked up and how sorry he is, and then 3 weeks later, does something even worse.

 

[Two Words]

This video really reminds me of the whole Jamis Winston debacle. He gives a sincere apology about how much he fucked up and how sorry he is, and then 3 weeks later, does something even worse.

What did he do later? Was this the guy who told the little girls to be quiet and the little boys that they're big and strong?

 

[besada]

I'm not doing this in two places anymore, so you guys can used the same apology thread as gaming side. Oh no! Crossing the streams!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1431989