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Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet. [W:38:54]

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/woman-fired-tweet-aids-africa-sparks-internet-outrage/story?id=21298519
The communications director for the Internet giant that owns popular websites like Match.com, Dictionary.com, and Vimeo has been fired over "hateful statements" in a tweet that came from her account.

The tweet Friday from the account of Justine Sacco read: "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
 
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Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

People have traded in their sense of humor for fake outrage.
 
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Are you going to tell me that you find that tweet funny, and not racist?

Funny as hell. Nothing racist about it. Too bad she didn't say "sure don't want to end up in a pot of boiling water".
 
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The bottom line is that in the real world, asinine comments can cost one their job or a black eye if asinine comments are said on the street to the wrong person. But by all means say what you wan't whenever and wherever you wan't
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

The bottom line is that in the real world, asinine comments can cost one their job or a black eye if asinine comments are said on the street to the wrong person. But by all means say what you wan't whenever and wherever you wan't

Yea, its called the First Amendment. Look it up. Also look up growing up and getting a thick skin.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Funny as hell. Nothing racist about it. Too bad she didn't say "sure don't want to end up in a pot of boiling water".
Were you at that Klan meeting in Delaware?
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

It's not PC to actually think about what you say, and the impact it will have on who you say it to.

Stupidity, you just can't fix it.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Yea, its called the First Amendment. Look it up. Also look up growing up and getting a thick skin.

Stupid comments can get you fired and even killed.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Makes you wonder how someone like that got to be a Public Relation Executive.

It's England, they have a different standard.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Were you at that Klan meeting in Delaware?
I live in Florida why would I ever bother going to a place like Delaware? And I doubt you would know the Klan out side of what you saw on Oh Brother.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Don't be jealous. She will probably get another job by weeks end.

Her and the Duck Dynasty dude can get a reality show together about searching for a new job.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Her and the Duck Dynasty dude can get a reality show together about searching for a new job.

Phil has a job, a good one already. He didn't look to worried about it all.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

It just looks like a joke to me.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

People have traded in their sense of humor for fake outrage.

I'm not outraged but I dont see a drop of humor in it either.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

It just looks like a joke to me.

Yea, I would say. But the gay agenda types and the race baiters must get their swings in and try taking down another successful person.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

I live in Florida why would I ever bother going to a place like Delaware? And I doubt you would know the Klan out side of what you saw on Oh Brother.
Unfortunately I've known a few white supremacists in my day. They're all worthless garbage.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Yea, its called the First Amendment. Look it up. Also look up growing up and getting a thick skin.
Enjoy that first amendment, just don't be shocked when you get jacked on the street for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. A little common sense and courtesy goes a long way.
 
Re: Woman fired for Aids Africa tweet.

Funny as hell. Nothing racist about it. Too bad she didn't say "sure don't want to end up in a pot of boiling water".

I'm not even sure how to properly reply to this. My first reaction would be to call you racist, but most likely you'd just deflect it and call me racist in response.

So let us dissect the comment. "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"

She is going to Africa where the indigenous people there are known as African or blacks in some cases. She then exclaims that she wishes not to get the AIDS virus. Then she says in a jocular manner that she cannot get AIDS because she is white. In this latter part of the comment we can clearly see that she is presuming that she as a White/Caucasian human cannot get AIDS and by taking out the white factor out of South Africa we find ourselves with the predominantly African factor. Leaving us to assume perhaps only Africans can eb diagnosed with AIDS. So the general message of her tweet goes as such.

White/Caucasian (Can't get AIDS) > African/Black (Can get AIDS)
 
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