MMA fighter turned professional wrestler Ronda Rousey lastly apologized for making Sandy Hook truther feedback after 11 years. To her credit score, it was an intensive, well-crafted apology that did not hedge or dodge her accountability. Much less to her credit score, the apology got here solely after she was pressed and roasted in a latest Reddit AMA.
Rousey questioned the truth of Sandy Hook — the bloodbath that left 20 kids and 6 college workers members useless — again in January 2013 when she shared a YouTube conspiracy concept video, calling it “extremely interesting and must-watch.” She caught quite a lot of flak on the time however by no means apologized, as a substitute following up that “doing research is more patriotic than blindly accepting what you’re told.”
Greater than a decade later, she’s issued an precise apology.
“I apologize that this came 11 years too late, but to those affected by the Sandy Hook massacre, from the bottom of my heart and depth of my soul, I am so so sorry for the hurt I caused,” she wrote in a prolonged be aware posted to X. “I can’t even begin to imagine the pain you’ve endured and words cannot describe how thoroughly remorseful and ashamed I am of myself for contributing it.”
Rousey claimed she has drafted apologies through the years and even thought of together with one in her newest memoir. However she wrote that she held off issuing the apology, as a substitute questioning if it might do extra hurt than good by main folks to conspiracies.
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“But honestly, I deserve to be hated, labeled, detested, resented, and worse for it. I deserve to lose out on every opportunity, I should have been canceled, I would have deserved it. I still do,” Rousey wrote.
Nevertheless, this emotional apology got here after Rousey confronted pushback, despite the fact that she wrote within the be aware that her feedback largely skirted media consideration. She did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Something) on Tuesday, which went horribly. Customers flooded her with questions on Sandy Hook. It might be…fairly the coincidence…that Rousey was lastly moved to share her apology, and it wasn’t associated to Reddit holding her toes to the fireplace. The positioning Terrible Saying wrote that she ignored the Sandy Hook questions throughout the AMA whereas answering others.
The apology from Rousey was applicable for the extraordinarily hurtful option to contribute to such dangerous conspiracies spreading on-line. Nevertheless it did not come out of the blue or a sudden need to do what was proper. It got here after dangerous headlines and many questions from Redditors.
In her apology, Rousey warned that others mustn’t observe the trail she took 11 years in the past.
“It doesn’t make you edgy, or an independent thinker, you’re not doing your due diligence entertaining every possibility by digesting these conspiracies,” she wrote. “They will only make you feel powerless, afraid, miserable and isolated. You’re doing nothing but hurting others and yourself.”
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