Isn’t that something of a passive-aggressive response? “I’m saying I’m sorry, so you really can’t fault me, but I sort of want you to know I contemptuous of you.”
I honestly don’t care who’s sorry for what, or the degree or sincerity of their contrition. Nor do I care if I offend an over-sensitive individual unless that person is a judge or a cop.
That is usually the order I in which I apologize. Problem is I apologize for just about everything. Lol. I apologize for things like when people run into me or I drop something. Things I shouldn’t be apologizing for but still have this reflex were I just say I’m sorry.
Sorry to hear that.
Me too. Sorry I said anything. 
Hee! I guess it depends if you like the smell of incense or not!
All these days later after the original post, I’m still a huge fan of “I couldn’t be sorrier”
I’m going to use that from now on. It’s absolutely 100% bulletproof and brilliant and SOUNDS just like an actual genuine apology.
As stated in previous posts and my personal favorite to hate: “I’m sorry if you feel that way.”
Wha…?!? Like it’s my fault. I wouldn’t feel that way if you hadn’t made me with what you said. It’s not the way I took it, it’s how you meant it and I reacted accordingly, dick.
The point, as I believe has been made in this thread, is often the person saying that A) Isn’t sorry or B) Thinks you need to get over yourself.
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You forgot to mention that you were the one riding the goat and holding the apple.
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Princhester, apologize to the goat already. If the goat was offended, I mean.
So . . . if he got the goat’s goat? 
The goat is never offended. The squid, on the other hand…
That’s basically what it says in the OP, and in fact that’s what the OP is complaining about:
And which a number of people in the thread are disagreeing with - to wit, if someone’s being forced to apologise for something they’re not actually sorry for, they should be able to use a “Weasel Apology” if they want to.
Sure they can, and they sound just like a weasel and my advice is if you are going to fake an apologize at least do it so you don’t sound like an even bigger dick, or don’t do it at all.
Exactly. Since time immemorial a danger of the weasel apology has been that it would inflame your audience to physical violence; sometimes referred to as ‘whacking the weasel.’ 
Here in British Columbia a 17 page “memo” was leaked detailing how the BC Liberal Party cout win the “ethnic vote” by making apologies for historic wrongs, etc. The fall out is pretty huge, the writer of the memo has resigned, people within her own party are indginant, riding association presidents quitting etc.
Now the premier apologises for “The language in the document”. As if the language was the offensive part.