False Apology Syndrome – I’m sorry for your sins.
Blogosphere • October 2008 • Views: 482
By Theodore Dalrymple
“There is a fashion these days for apologies: not apologies for the things that one has actually done oneself (that kind of apology is as difficult to make and as unfashionable as ever), but for public apologies by politicians for the crimes and misdemeanours of their ancestors, or at least of their predecessors. I think it is reasonable to call this pattern of political breast-beating the False Apology Syndrome.”
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