And at this time: how's an AI expert ever going to find a job in this employment climate?

But in all seriousness, this is really silly. Yes, we don't mean to offend and sometimes do. It's OK to apologise, but it's also OK to expect that everybody else does not take the worst interpretation and then runs with it.

"I apologise to these folks looking for any opportunity to be offended"?

I saw this tweet and the firestorm it caused when it happened. Being an Indian man myself, I was confused what all the confusion was about... it was so obviously a joke about sweaty young men. I actually resent the CEO and company more for caving to that pressure.

Is this going to make anyone happy? He doesn’t admit he thought it was racist so he won’t make the people who thought it was happy, and he fires the person which definetly won’t make the anti-woke freeze peach crowd happy.