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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop it.  It was clearly a mistake.  He was trying to bump forearms and wasn’t thinking.[/quote]

He wasn't trying to bump forearms.  You don't straighten your arm to bump forearms.  He might have been trying to do something else innocuous but not that. [/quote]

They aren’t supposed to high five during covid so it could be a mistake.
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I'm absolutely willing to believe it was a mistake, trying to do some kind of air high five could be it.  Just not forearm bumping, because that's just how that would look.

I thought his apology was excellent. I think that often when people apologize for unintentional racism, they turn it into a discussion of how they were feeling.  So, it becomes a conversation about the experience of the person who did the thing, and not by the person who was hurt by the thing.  He didn't do that.  He did explain briefly that he wasn't trying to give a Nazi salute, but he also acknowledged that people were hurt by it, even if that wasn't his intention and he seemed to give a genuine apology, not "sorry you got your feelings hurt" which always sounds fake, but "sorry my action hurt you".[/quote]

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