PR Executive Causes Twitter Outrage

[Blondie in Spokane]

"But her father, who has not been publicly named, was more forthright and said that what she did was ‘unforgivable’."

"He also apparently backed the campaign to name and shame his daughter as, in an ironic twist, it emerged he moved his family from Cape Town to the US in 1994 to escape racism at the end of Apartheid."

"Sacco is now thought to be holed up with her family in South Africa and will be spending Christmas coming to terms with her sudden ascent to the Internet's public enemy no.1."

"Losing her job as a communications director could also mean losing her US work visa -potentially forcing her to leave America."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...IDS-causes-Twitter-outrage.html#ixzz2oDPclznj

 

[belimom]

I really don't appreciate her speaking on behalf of America. It really makes it sound like our entire country is unaware of the AIDS crisis and is as insensitive as she is. I wish she would avoid making such broad statements and stick to her own apology.

The AIDS epidemic in Africa has been on my mind for years, as I'm sure it has been for many others.

"There is an AIDS crisis taking place in this country, that we read about in America, but do not live with or face on a continuous basis. Unfortunately, it is terribly easy to be cavalier about an epidemic that one has never witnessed firsthand..."

http://abcnews.go.com/International...-aids-africa-issues-apology/story?id=21301833

 

[Sonya610]

This woman has proven she has no common sense and is extremely immature (or extremely high most of the time). She will likely have her visa revoked.

Certain opinions and certain types of jokes are NOT something we want associated with our employers. Share that stuff with like minded individuals.

Like facebook the whole "share your real name and real opinions with the world" thing is for those that aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

 

[Nova]

Talk about doubling down on the stupidity:

There is an AIDS crisis taking place in this country, that we read about in America, but do not live with or face on a continuous basis. Unfortunately, it is terribly easy to be cavalier about an epidemic that one has never witnessed firsthand.

I don't claim to be an expert on Africa, but my dead brother and many departed close friends will bear witness that I have some personal experience with the AIDS epidemic.

Ms. Sacco has demonstrated to my satisfaction that she shouldn't be on ANY form of public media.

 

[belimom]

Talk about doubling down on the stupidity:



I don't claim to be an expert on Africa, but my dead brother and many departed close friends will bear witness that I have some personal experience with the AIDS epidemic.

Ms. Sacco has demonstrated to my satisfaction that she shouldn't be on ANY form of public media.

Nova, that's what I was referring to a few posts above. For her to lump all of America together with her twisted frame of mind really angers me. You have to have your head in the sand and/or be quite selfish to not be aware of the severity of AIDS, no matter what country it is. :furious:

I just wish she'd leave the rest of us out of her apology, and not assume that everyone here is as ignorant is she is.

 

[Donjeta]

http://www.whio.com/news/news/national/was-justine-saccos-trial-twitter-cyberbullying/ncRtq/

No one disputed her tweet was offensive, but the backlash against her also proved controversial and prompted a question: Did all this scrutiny of a non-public figure constitute cyberbullying?
According to Merriam-Webster's admittedly broad definition, it's "the electronic posting of mean-spirited messages about a person often done anonymously." This circumstance seems to fit the bill.
A writer for Mashable says when critics started leaving hateful messages on Sacco's Instagram page, including on photos of her kids, it had all gone too far.

 

[CherryKitty]

Firstly, those "jokes" were atrocious. I admit to having a warped sense of humor, that can often be over the line, or the things I find funny are. But I like to think that I know when it's really too much, or at least account for that. This, in my books, is 100x "over the line." Not cool, at all.

Also not cool? The backlash. Yes, she screwed up, and yes, she's not funny and very, very offensive (to say in the least). But does that warrant crude names, death threats, and countless other hateful messages?

That's what makes me so angry. Why don't people realize that by rebutting awful slander, that they too are in the wrong? That they're stooping down to their level? It baffles me. I understand the anger and overflow of emotions and outrage, but really. People can be nasty.

 

[txsvicki]

Most of her previous tweets seem racist or inappropriate.

 

[Donjeta]

Here's a useful life lesson though:

http://www.vyralize.com/assets/2013/12/justine-sacco-01.jpg

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

PR exec who was fired for racist tweet gets new job promoting revamped 'Hot or Not' app

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-gets-new-job-promoting-revamped-Hot-Not.html

 

[Nova]

Why does anyone even GO there? Personally, I don't even entertain these kinds of thoughts. I don't understand it whatsoever.

:no:

I don't think the Steve Martin tweet is particularly "racist", though it certainly was unnecessary and unfortunate.

Surely we've all noted the creative spellings often used in naming African-Americans. And there's a perfectly good explanation: in the descendants of slaves we have a group of people who were stripped of their ancestral names and are creating new traditions rather than handing down the names their forefathers were given by slave owners.

To note this phenomenon isn't to denigrate it. (I'm all for it, myself, not that it's really any of my business.)

Martin's tweet doesn't imply that African-Americans can't spell lasagna when they mean the Italian dish; but, yeah, he should have used better judgment.

What the PR exec was thinking, I have no idea.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

'I lost my job, my reputation and I'm not able to date anymore': Former PR worker reveals how she destroyed her life one year after sending 'racist' tweet before trip to Africa

Justine Sacco, 30, from New York, became a global hate figure

Thousands angered by tweet sent by the PR consultant

It said: 'Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!'

She lost her job and was trolled by thousands

Now spoken of the experience in book So You've Been Publicly Shamed

She said tweet to her 170 followers was misinterpreted

'I thought there was no way that anyone could possibly think it was literal'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...e-racist-tweet-trip-Africa.html#ixzz3RukTY3fj