The title is unreasonably generous. The apology is entirely self serving and meaningless.
- He doesn’t apologize for throwing water for the man - only for posting it on social media.
- He tries to frame a narrative that the victim deserved it
- He doesn’t offer any sort of reparations or even an insignificant donation to a group that works with people generally.
It’s clearly only to ensure his business is not affected, reduce the threat of prosecution (being considered by law enforcement, presumably for assault), and to encourage leniency from the judge if it gets that far.
Fuck that guy.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What the hell, is saying homeless not PC now? Unhoused??
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Every few years some people decide you can’t use certain words because they have become negative terms to some group. So they invent a new term for the same thing and as the years go by and more people use the new term, it gets the same negative association that the old one had. Then the cycle begins anew.
Sometimes it’s good - a lot of slurs that were ok for anyone to say when I was a kid are now socially unacceptable and that’s great. But sometimes the SJWs take it too far and I think this is one of those times. I don’t understand the reason for the push to call them “unhoused” but I’m willing to be educated.
Once you hit middle age and have seen this happen a few times you’ll usually just roll your eyes and carry on.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also, homeless is far from a slur in my opinion, and a similar term is used in many language. Using unhoused doesn’t change anything, the people you talk about still don’t have a place to live, but now you can feel better about themselves by using a different word.
Good article on the topic, highlighting the origin of the word, and the reasons many try to use it: theguardian.com/…/homeless-unhoused-houseless-ter…
scorpious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s actually someone experiencing homelessness.
The (good, imho) reason is that “homeless” can quickly become a defining label, when it is really just a description of someone’s current circumstance.
So the new wording is simply more accurate.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s honestly the exact same thing, almost the exact same word and it means the exact same thing. It isn’t gonna help anything. These labels just help the keyboard activists feel like they did something