UPDATE: I came across this cartoon today but just had it brought to my attention that the "incident" was from last January. (Oops -- thanks, David!) My reaction to it and the two recent statements still stand, however.
Notre Dame's student paper, The Observer, has apologized for this lovely cartoon. But what does that even mean? When a newspaper does something like this -- the original punchline was apparently the much more hilarious "AIDS" -- and people like Rep. Larry Brown make demeaning remarks about people with HIV, and Alabama's new governor says that people who have not accepted Jesus in their lives are "not his brothers and sisters," an apology feels like a father saying he's sorry for raping his daughter. ("Everything cool now -- can't we move on?") Is there really anywhere to go from here? (Yes, it's called cutting your losses.) Maybe that's why religious folks are so big on forgiveness -- it's how they try to get out of saying fucked-up shit like this.
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