Originally Posted by Malacasta
The desire to revel in schadenfreude and destroy relatively private people (there have been so many examples of this in the last few years) and how this impacts on society.

I think at least part of the problem here is people don't know how to apologize, or don't care to (implying they are not sorry) and it makes the hole deeper and the whole thing worse.

If many would just say "I'm sorry, I was wrong" then it wouldn't be such a big issue, instead we often get excuses or non-apologies like I'm sorry you feel that way, which just invites another news cycle of how bad or whatever that person is. Maybe I missed it, but I don't believe Rachel Dolezal has genuinely apologized and admitted she made a mistake on this.

Whoever it was that said Rachel D. shouldn't be news is correct.