[tweet] Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

[Sluggo]

Why is it ok to say offensive but funny things if you're a comedian, but not if you are anything else? Please explain.

Michael Richards would like a word with you. You did add "funny" though, Kramer went for straight up offensive.

 

[SheHateMe]

Wow, her autism tweet was disgusting. How did she keep the job after that one?

 

[Leros]

All of this media blow up is going to make her basically unhirable, which is really way too much punishment for a stupid tweet.

 

[ch33zw1z]

All of this media blow up is going to make her basically unhirable, which is really way too much punishment for a stupid tweet.

The real question is how many of these situations are needed before people realize what they should and should be posting online.

 

[Leros]

The real question is how many of these situations are needed before people realize what they should and should be posting online.

I'm personally afraid to use my real identity for anything I do online.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I'm personally afraid to use my real identity for anything I do online.

I don't blame you one bit.

 

[Exophase]

Wow, her autism tweet was disgusting. How did she keep the job after that one?

Assuming any of her superiors even saw it or were alerted to it, they generally aren't going to fire someone just because they said something offensive. Not unless her bosses were themselves deeply offended. Most likely they'd make her delete it and give her a stern warning about posting things like this. Even if someone in the company complained she'd probably get a lesser punishment along with some sensitivity training, unless perhaps they threatened a lawsuit.

The problem is when it goes viral like this and everyone knows about it, then they have to make a strong statement against the action and fire her to help appease the angry mob.

Personally I don't think it's fair to hold someone accountable to a dream they had but actually disclosing this information publicly was very stupid.

 

[Number1]

Eventually people will learn there are tens of thousands of people who monitor social media looking, hoping, to find something they can become outraged about and make an issue of. And if the issue is about being offended, then none dare object, and someone must be punished.

A high ranking person representing a corporate entity should know not to antagonize an entire country/continent.


The fact that you don't get this is, to me, appalling.

 

[tigersty1e]

so stupid.

she's a public relations representative. the first person to know what is an appropriate tweet and what is not.

 

[Ruptga]

Yeah she should have known better, but should this really be a stoning offense? A great many people just need to get over themselves.

 

[IronWing]

Yeah she should have known better, but should this really be a stoning offense? A great many people just need to get over themselves.

Rising intolerance for minor social transgressions is a symptom of increasing class stratification and declining upward social mobility.

 

[SandEagle]

Why is it ok to say offensive but funny things if you're a comedian, but not if you are anything else? Please explain.

no one is safe from political correctness, not even comedians.
http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/21/steve-martin-tweet-racial-lasagne-apology/

Steve Martin learned an important lesson about lasagna last night ... the dish can get racial.

The SNL alum was cracking grammar jokes on Twitter .. when someone asked, "is this how you spell lasonia?"

Steve's response ... "It depends. Are you in an African-American restaurant or at an Italian restaurant."

Seconds later the 68-year old actor deleted the tweet and apologized. But the floodgates opened, the original tweet went viral and Martin atoned again: "I did apologize. But again, a second later I realized what an offensive thing I'd done ... In retrospect, bad joke."

A penne for his thoughts.

 

[techofalltrades]

Some African countries have up to a 25% AIDS rate.

and you are NOT going to contract AIDS just by visiting that country


This isnt 1981 where people believe that if you shake hands with an AIDS infected person you get AIDS..

this is 2013.. where we KNOW how AIDS is transmitted.

 

[techofalltrades]

Not sure I see the problem. She made 4 statements, and I'm not sure which is inaccurate or offensive:

1. Going to Africa
2. Hopes not to get AIDS
3. She's kidding (this could be the problem? Maybe she wants aids?)
4. She's white

UNLESS she plans on sleeping her way across Africa, her tweet is absolutely retarded. If she believes you can get AIDS just by visiting Africa, she's 100% inaccurate... and i imagine would be offensive to the entire country

 

[Rakehellion]

Why is it ok to say offensive but funny things if you're a comedian, but not if you are anything else? Please explain.

Most people in most situations don't like to be offended, dumbass. A clever analysis of a controversial situation is the exception.

 

[Imp]

I think the statement was intentionally absurd and the whole joke was making fun of people who think that being white makes you less likely to contract AIDS because more people with AIDS are black than white. Maybe if she worded it differently people would see that better. Like "everyone knows white people can't get AIDS!"

Still in pretty poor taste though.

Where is this "less likely" coming from?

"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDs. Just kidding! I'm white!"

She's essentially saying that white people don't get AIDs if you ignore the first sentence. Read in full context including the first part about going to Africa, it can be interpreted as only black people get AIDs.

If you left the white part out, she'd probably be fine.

 

[Venix]

Yeah she should have known better, but should this really be a stoning offense? A great many people just need to get over themselves.

Agreed. When someone says something "offensive" I either disagree with them or ignore them. I don't form a lynch mob and attempt to ruin their lives. The politically correct babies whining about this are terrible people.

 

[lamedude]

People actually expected her to have a handle on pc behavior whennshe used to work for the WWE and Vince Mcmahon?

Tell me you just didn't say that.

 

[Triumph]

Most people in most situations don't like to be offended, dumbass. A clever analysis of a controversial situation is the exception.

You just called me dumbass. I'm highly offended. I hope you lose your job.

 

[Spungo]

she has been fired.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...-justine-sacco-tweet-20131221,0,1869309.story

1. Buy shares of Pfizer.
2. Cripple morale on national scale by firing anyone for any reason.
3. 20% of Americans take psychiatric drugs to deal with the stress of living in Soviet America where your thoughts are monitored 24/7.
4. Profit.

 

[shortylickens]

If you morons stopped giving her attention, she wouldnt have upset so many people.

Ditto Miley and Bieber.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Her dad is actually a wealthy South African. I suspect she got the job by a hookup to begin with. She does not seem to bright, and a bit douchy actually.

Probably skated by all her life and this is probably the first time she is actually having to deal with adversity.

Her dad will probably get her in somewhere else.

The moral of the story. Don't use your real name for online activity. Use a pseudonym, because everything on the internet is permanent and you will be judged by every little thing you do in unexpected ways.

 

[shortylickens]

Why is it ok to say offensive but funny things if you're a comedian, but not if you are anything else? Please explain.

Because they dont actually mean it.

Also, comedians dont give a fuck. Nobody can bully them.
The liberals (&#21328 only go after people who they can intimidate. They dont want a fight, they want control. It makes them feel powerful.

Which is funny cuz the people in the 60's (who were actual progressives) rallied against that very concept.

 

[sandorski]

I'm offended by how stupid the Tweet was.

 

[SheHateMe]

The liberals (&#21328...

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