As if social media couldn’t get any dumber, astronaut Scott Kelly felt the need to apologize after he was attacked by an online mob for using a rather innocuous quote from Winston Churchill.

“Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill,” Kelly wrote. “My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics.”