{"id":113979,"date":"2019-10-18T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T05:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=113979"},"modified":"2019-10-18T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T05:09:23","slug":"my-sincerest-apologies-to-stephen-herreid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/10\/my-sincerest-apologies-to-stephen-herreid.html","title":{"rendered":"My sincerest apologies to Stephen Herreid"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 7th, you published a piece (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/10\/a-brief-follow-up-on-the-dreadful-new-kevin-sorbo-flick-and-christianist-violence-fantasies.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) that included an image of a tweet of mine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.15752-9\/68686360_473591933220697_7159207065020268544_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&amp;_nc_oc=AQlykAEeKMF2pUn5XmdlvUIRCBL7a8YqdcGBlOS5q73xYQ4QjnwhiL2ivxHUvRd1GY8&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&amp;oh=51e497da95ff6fb1766077289e32df2e&amp;oe=5E0877C0\"><\/p>\n<p>In that tweet (which can still be found <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenHerreid\/status\/1159159829858062341?s=20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>), I mentioned \u201cgenocidal white racism.\u201d \u201cWhite racism\u201d here clearly refers to racism on the part of whites AGAINST non-whites.<\/p>\n<p>But you indicated that my tweet was a defense of \u201cpersecuted white conservative males\u201d against a \u201cgenocide\u201d I delusionally anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, you referenced me again in two subsequent articles. Quoting you: \u201c\u2026\u2019white genocide,\u2019 as Stephen Herreid calls it\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/10\/against-the-myth-of-the-persecuted-contemporary-american-church.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), and \u201c\u2026exactly the same demographic that talks ceaselessly of imaginary garbage like Stephen Herreid\u2019s<br>\n\u2018white genocide\u2019\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/10\/contra-celebrity-worship-and-in-defense-of-magisterial-tradition.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In those two articles, you didn\u2019t even include the screenshot or any hyperlinks to my work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite genocide\u201d is a term I\u2019ve never used in my entire online history. You invented a noxious quotation and attributed it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Please retract all three articles\u2019 references to me. Please also publicly make note of the retractions, and apologize.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<br>\nStephen Herreid<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I sincerely apologize for badly misreading Mr. Herreid\u2019s tweet and ask forgiveness from both Mr. Herreid and any readers it may have led to mistakenly believe my interpretation of it.  It was genuinely not my intention to deceive anybody about the meaning of the tweet (which was why I posted it).  I simply read it wrong. Mea maxima culpa. I am glad to hear that Mr. Herreid strongly opposes white racism.  The referenced posts have been corrected to remove both the tweet and my references to it and to Mr. Herreid.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He writes: On October 7th, you published a piece (here) that included an image of a tweet of mine. In that tweet (which can still be found here), I mentioned \u201cgenocidal white racism.\u201d \u201cWhite racism\u201d here clearly refers to racism on the part of whites AGAINST non-whites. But you indicated that my tweet was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-113979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mea-culpa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My sincerest apologies to Stephen Herreid<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"He writes: On October 7th, you published a piece (here) that included an image of a tweet of mine. 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