Of course, forcing bigots to apologize is foolhardy. They apologize not due to contrition but because it’s crucial to rehabbing their public image. If racists and Jew-haters genuinely change their ways, their long-term actions will reveal that. Their vacuous confessions are damage control, not opportunities for good people to open their hearts to hate-spewing fanatics. Conservatives don’t want to cancel idiots; we prefer to ignore them because that hurts these attention-seeking blowhards even more.

And to accept an apology goes hand in hand with another silly tendency — mainly from the media and left — regarding anti-Semites: treating them as misinformed children who need to be educated out of their ignorance. Please. That’s not the point.