This seems both absurdly crawling - 'thank you for holding me accountable' - and disingenuous. He's just apologising because he could get away with it then but not now, if cultural mores were different he'd probably still be doing it. https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon/status/1265386757958389768

I think this sort of thing is reflective of a post virtue ethics world - there's no room for personal character development, just the changing series of cultural norms about behaviour, and the attendant rituals of shame that accompany them.

The obsession with 'offence' in US racial politics is cancerous, actual social justice goes out of the window, it's purely an internal discussion amongst pre-dominantly white political and cultural elites.

A lot white American discourse about race is really code for 'what compensatory language and behaviour can we adopt so we don't have to feel guilty about racial injustice'.

This is idiotic and narcissistic of course, but the really toxic aspect of woke racial politics is the assumption that racial injustice is an intractable spiritual affliction - rather than a series of entirely addressable, if serious and complex, social and economic injustices.