Sooo.... she's going to apologize for the AIDS "joke", but not even mention the incredibly racist supposition that only black people get AIDS that she ends her tweet with?
From the wording of the tweet, and because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, I think she was possibly mocking someone who had expressed those concerns to her. But even if that is so, and even if she means what she says in her apology, she should still lose her current job as a PR agent, because this was very unprofessional. If you are making your living as a social media expert, you ought to know that anything you write will be understood at face value, that intent means nothing when intent can't be understood.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Doesn't mean that there can't be both malice and stupidity at work, though. I prefer to think that people are stupid rather than evil, since stupid can be changed with education but evil is an intransigent personality problem.
Who said anything about evil? I just said that people need to stop giving overt racism the benefit of the doubt. If you try to lessen its severity by chalking it up to stupidity, regardless of your reasoning behind it, you're contributing to the problem.
i'm sick of the hand wringing about ~mob justice~ and shit. this woman is supposed to be in pr yet her twitter was littered with edgy jokes and racism. if twitter caused her to lose her job, oh well, she should have known better.
someone actually went to the airport, watched Sacco get off the plane, took pictures of Sacco and listened to Sacco speak with the people who greeted her at the airport. Zac even spoke to her father. (Some information on social media said he was identified as Desmond Sacco, a South African mining billionaire, but this is apparently not true.)
Sacco's father said he's "incredibly ashamed," called his daughter a "fucking idiot," and condemned her comment
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I'm sure you have an interview lined up with FAUX Nuuus.
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someone actually went to the airport, watched Sacco get off the plane, took pictures of Sacco and listened to Sacco speak with the people who greeted her at the airport. Zac even spoke to her father. (Some information on social media said he was identified as Desmond Sacco, a South African mining billionaire, but this is apparently not true.)
Sacco's father said he's "incredibly ashamed," called his daughter a "fucking idiot," and condemned her comment
http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/12/what-happened-when-internet-took-justine-sacco/356393/
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