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It's like this...you say something with one meaning, the person you're communicating with interprets it. The final result is going to be the one that counts. So regardless of you having nothing to apologize about (because how they interpreted it was not what you meant at all), they got the wrong message from your actions/ words, so I think maybe an apology for the misunderstanding might be the right thing to do. Doesn't mean you did anything wrong. Just means you understand their point of view. It's a diplomatic stance. I think that in this case people are being overly sensitive, and to some degree, falsely PC.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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