Progressive Democrats for America is a group that has not been shy about its support of Bernie Sanders. Earlier today, they send out a mailer about Hillary Clinton to their subscribers that looked like this:

As you can see, recipients of this particular email were not thrilled. Here’s a pretty succinct explainer on the anger:

Hillary won the Confederacy* *by Confederacy we mean the votes of the descendants of people they fought to enslave https://t.co/3fd0TH1lXi — Adam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) March 17, 2016

PDA quickly took note of the furor, issuing tweets with apologies. All of the apologies had a bit of a biting edge to them, however.

Our apologies @AlanGrayson

We screwed up & apologize

As someone recently said, “Now let’s get back to the issues” — PDAmerica (@pdamerica) March 17, 2016

The people who were offended by the original phrasing didn’t take the apologies well and the situation devolved into a Twitter spat. When they began requesting a link to a full apology, they got blocked, according to this:

It got nasty.

Already did several times @brownsugar7878

Fair minded people accept an apology@smoothkobra — PDAmerica (@pdamerica) March 17, 2016

PDA is continuing to issue message on Twitter. This post will be updated if a link to a full apology becomes available. For now, the conversation has become somewhat childish:

@Beulahmo nooope

She blocked us then attacked us for blocking her — PDAmerica (@pdamerica) March 17, 2016

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