Citations:ifpology

English citations of ifpology

• 2016 January 11, »Q« [username], “Re: HAPPIER NEW YEAR! sans Walts48”, in mozilla.general‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Are you also sorry that you erroneously inferred that I was dissatisfied with yours? I'm sure it wasn't implied any more strongly than your dissatisfaction with mine was, yet you offered an ifpology to me after inferring it.

• 2023 February 7, Kenji Yoshino, David Glasgow, Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 109:

  ... ifpology questions the recipient's reaction to the wrong, rather than the wrong itself—“I'm sorry if you take it that way” or “I'm sorry if you're offended.” At their worst, these apologies seek to shift the blame, effectively saying […]

• 2022 April 26, Michael Bérubé, Jennifer Ruth, It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 60:

  ... this is the kind of thing that could be resolved by an apology (a real one, not an ifpology), a conversation with a dean or department head, and a promise not to make this particular boneheaded pedagogical decision 60 IT'S NOT FREE SPEECH.

• 2020 April 21, Brant Hansen, The Truth about Us: The Very Good News about How Very Bad We Are, Baker Books, →ISBN:

  ... ifpology,” when you say something like, “If anyone was hurt by that thing I did, I sincerely apologize.” It allows you to subtly pass the blame forward, or at least share it, and evade total responsibility. I'm good at these, by the way […]

• 2022 April 26, Michael Bérubé, Jennifer Ruth, It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 56:

  ... ifpologies,” and their clear function is to dismiss the criticisms of the people who took offense, and to insist that the utterer of the offensive remark meant no harm. Sometimes, they are accompanied by protestations that the speaker […]