alt Hacker NewsOnly due to the cultural shift over the past 10 years, I would say. You also see it coming out of “streamer” culture, as well as evangelical “prosperity gospel” culture, where any means justify the ends of acquiring wealth - and no shame need be felt.
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dexwiz • yesterday at 8:58 PM
Tea party of the early 2010s also played by this rule. Lots of "I cannot recall"s which translates to "I won't even acknowledge wrong doing so why would I apologize?"
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sodapopcan • yesterday at 10:48 PM
"At least you got your bag" is the saying these days.
IMO there's an ongoing battle between two very different concepts of what speech means.
1. I speak "X" because I believe X to be true. I am virtuous because I am correct, and honest.
2. I speak "X" because that is is the current signal for demonstrating loyalty in the in-group. I am virtuous because I demonstrate allegiance and membership.
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In the first case, you apologize for an error because it's how you get back to a state of being correct. (Or if you don't apologize, it's because you double-down and insist it isn't an error.)
In the second case, you don't apologize because the "error" was merely a strategic misstep of over-triggering the dirty out-group, and anyway caring about them too much is suspicious.