I'm sorry we made you consider where your hands have been by yelling out "me too."
I'm sorry for my pronouns, including the dangerous word "us."
I'm sorry we lowered your profits by trying to keep the water clean and drinkable.
I'm sorry we enabled a black president with our ridiculous ideas that every color is capable.
I'm sorry we blocked your favorite parking space, the one by the tree, by marking a handicapped spot extra wide for a wheelchair ramp.
I'm sorry we didn't want to date you, and it drove you to kill third-graders with a weapon of war.
I'm sorry we wanted clean air instead of the technological miracle of artificial intelligence.
I'm sorry we took away your favorite R word and left you with no other adjectives to use, not even one.
I'm sorry we championed highly qualified female CEOs who distract you at board meetings by owning a set of breasts, high and round.
I'm sorry we tried to put equality ahead of your feelings, because you know best.
I'm terribly sorry we thought we should provide for the elderly, the poor, and children because they don't contribute to your idea of productive society and if a few of them die, it just makes the herd faster.
I'm sorry we made you uncomfortable by not knowing for sure what's in another person's pants when they are playing sports or trying to use toilet, we see how you might feel threatened and we know what that's like.
I'm sorry we like books that embrace views other than yours, we agree now that those are very obscene.
I'm sorry we thought people shouldn't go bankrupt paying for healthcare; obviously cancer is a choice.
I'm sorry we forced you to consider safety and hazards and contaminants instead of the proper priorities of efficiency and time and money.
I'm sorry we demanded control over our own reproductive organs - that one was a big mistake, and we understand now where our real value lies.
I'm sorry we believed in science and experts with degrees instead of podcasters and laymen who have done their research.
I'm sorry we tried to allow Islam and Judaism and atheism instead of the one true religion, white Christian dollars.
I'm sorry we pushed and pushed and pushed until you had no other choice but to break the country.
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