Justine Sacco Tweet Sparks Fury With Tasteless Reference To Africa And Aids
Merry Christmass Justine. Good luck in your new job as a waitress
Quote:
An American PR executive has sparked a Twitter storm with an apparently racist tweet ahead of a trip to Africa. The now-deleted tweet, posted from the account of Justine Sacco, went viral and was branded "outrageous" by her employer.
It said:
Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!
— Justine Sacco (@JustineSacco) December 20, 2013
Sacco is the corporate communications director for IAC, which owns popular websites OkCupid, Match.com, CollegeHumor, The Daily Beast and Vimeo.
With her flight to South Africa apparently airborne, and Sacco possibly unaware of the furore she had created, the hashtag #hasjustinelandedyet trended, while her account appeared to have been deleted.
But IAC were aware, and a spokesman told the International Business Times: "This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC.
"Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are taking appropriate action."
Shadow was hopelessly wrong about the Gold Bull Market. What else is he wrong about?
Justine Sacco Tweet Sparks Fury With Tasteless Reference To Africa And Aids
Merry Christmass Justine. Good luck in your new job as a waitress
Fuck you goldbug. This is just the media oppressing people. Her comment was in bad taste but she did not deserve to be plastered around the world on the front pages.
Quite scary really. If she was black and had shat on a white country she'd be seen as edgy and cool.
Why don't we just send her to a gulag?
Time for a civil war.
stinkbug omosessuale Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments. Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck! See here Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
Fuck you goldbug. This is just the media oppressing people. Her comment was in bad taste but she did not deserve to be plastered around the world on the front pages.
Quite scary really. If she was black and had shat on a white country she'd be seen as edgy and cool.
Why don't we just send her to a gulag?
Time for a civil war.
Come on Moops- she is a P.R. Executive.
The very fact she has a twitt account proves she is a failure from the outset, let alone a glib racist.
Lets hope she ends up cleaning toilets with one of the millions of black people, who though intellectually superior to her, will never fly in a plane as part of their job. Oh god, just had horrible thought.
The U.N. will make her an African Aids Ambassador.
But to make her want to clean toilets is pretty sick.
I guess it's whitey's fault that AIDs is bad in Africa?
stinkbug omosessuale Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments. Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck! See here Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
Internet company IAC has fired Justine Sacco, its senior director of corporate communications, after she posted an offensive tweet on Friday night
“The offensive comment does not reflect the views and values of IAC,” a company spokesperson told Mashable on Saturday. “We take this issue very seriously, and we have parted ways with the employee in question.”
I suppose in relation to her job the result was to be expected.
The next trick of our glorious banks will be to charge us a fee for using net bank!!! You are no longer customer, you are property!!!
Cleaning toilets won't hurt her. Millions around the world make their living doing exactly that.
Yet you call the right wingers "hate" groups.
It's technically not even racist what she said.
You're an idiot.
stinkbug omosessuale Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments. Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck! See here Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
I suppose in relation to her job the result was to be expected.
Agreed - it's not necessarily that what she wrote was *that* bad - it's more that in the context of her job, it was absolutely stupid.
What's more, she really should have known better - Everyone needs to remember that when you tweet or post something on Facebook etc under your own name, it's the equivelant of standing up on a stage in the middle of Martin Place at lunchtime, with camera's pointed at you from some cable news network, and shouting out to the whole crowd whatever it is you are want to say.
So the test is - would you happily say whatever you want to if you were physcially in that situation? If yes, go ahead, if no, STFU! Especially if you are a PR Director for a large international organisation......
I've never said anything about right wing hate groups.
Maybe you are making assumptions about her, and projecting them onto me?
Just because she looks like a blond aryan stormtrooper does not mean she is not in fact a bottle blonde (edit: added 'e' to blond) South African Jew repelled by zionist colonialism and apartied policies in the Former State of Palastine.
themoops
23 Dec 2013, 09:46 AM
It's technically not even racist what she said.
Really?
" Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
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