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More on the Wacko Homeschoolers

Michelle Malkin covered the wacko terrorist homeschoolers story, and has follow-up letters and articles on her blog. And thank you to Joanne for writing to Mr. Stout and posting her letter and his reply.

A commenter at Joanne's site said that we homeschoolers now sound like any other minority group, demanding an apology. I don't think there's anything particularly whiny or inherently wrong in feeling that an apology is appropriate. No one is asking for any kind of restitution or demanding that the government step in to fix things. But look, if you're dumb enough to go around saying things like that, people are going to get upset and the right thing to do is to say "Whoops! My mistake! I'm sorry!"

It's ridiculous to say that makes us a whiny minority. By that logic we should all just say whatever we want about any person or group, and revel in the safe idea that we don't have to make amends or be responsible for our actions. If you say something that offends, whether you say it out of ignorance or malicious intent, good manners requires an apology. If the offended group takes their outrage and uses it for gain, or air time, or to go on and on about how oppressed they are and someone should do something ...then you have whiny minority syndrome.