Score this non-apology! How many bingo lines can you spot?
But I’m not [minority], and I don’t have a radar that pings whenever [minority adjective] and words like [neutral-word] are mentioned in close proximity [separated by 40 other words]. It didn’t even occur to me that the statement could be read as an allusion to the stereotype of [minority
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I believe the nearest I'll ever have to get to that in my own work might be, "I apologize for triggering pain in you, and for wasting your money by not making it explicitly clear that the POV character for that remark was written as an archetypal asshole."
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Best one I could find in color, anyway. (Stephen Hickman is a splendid artist, but his kzinti look somewhat terrestrial.)
The ID is also the Name of a character I wrote in Man-Kzin Wars XII.
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