#7 Apology

After issuing his apologies, Gibson followed through with the AA program, but never actually visited Jewish communities or synagogues like he said he would. Although I do not have any personal hatred towards Mel Gibson, I do believe that his words and actions during and after the incident revealed an anti-Semitic side of him and a hear that was not truly sorry for what he had done. His drunken statements of hate, his “blame it on the alcohol” apology, and post-incident actions, or lack of actions, reflected Gibson’s half-hearted apologies to the public and the Jewish community. Although Gibson’s apologies may have seemed sincere and whole-hearted, after analyzing the apologies, one can see just how genuine the apology really was. He was genuine about his shame and embarrassment for getting caught on tape with anti-Semitic remarks, but not genuine about his seemingly good intentions to repair his relationships with the Jewish people. Gibson tries to blame this incident on the alcohol and does not take full responsibility of his actions. In the end, Gibson’s uses his fame to try and reduce punishments and get away with minor infractions. His unwillingness to keep to his word and visit with Jewish leaders, nonetheless show up in his proceeding, reveals that Gibson’s apology was not genuine and was only made to save face. Though the whole population did not analyze Gibson’s every action and word like this paper, they felt some kind of ingenuity. Gibson’s apologies deemed to be unsuccessful, and now the public labels Gibson as an alcoholic and an anti-Semitic.