Notre Dame Newspaper Issues Weak "Apology" Over Gay Bashing Cartoon »

In what has to be one of the most weak, pseudo apologies I’ve seen in a long time, the Notre Dame student Newspaper, The Observer, issued an “apology” from the Editorial Staff on Friday for the sickening cartoon it ran that advocated bashing “fruity” gays with a baseball bat.

The piece, called “Responsibility for offensive comic”, starts off okay:

The editors of The Observer would like to publicly apologize for the publication of “The Mobile Party” in the Jan. 13 edition. The burden of responsibility ultimately lies on us for allowing it to go to print.

There is no excuse that can be given and nothing that can be said to reverse the damage that has already been done by this egregious error in judgment.

A good start for publishing a comic that says you should turn “fruits” into “vegetables” by bashing them with a baseball bat. Then the editorial team chooses to leap off the cliff using distractions to deflect blame and not offering any hint of consequences for those involved in the publication of the “bash the fruits” comic.

Much more, including the cartoon, after the jump…

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