I don’t think it’s wise to joke about AIDS or any other disease.
I guess dark humor just isn’t allowed anymore.
How ironic. Will I be the first to bring up one of the original cases of Yellow Journalism in the 1920s concerning two Italian Americans who were convicted of robbery and murder based on slander and heresay; Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. A seven year trial ending in their execution.
What she said made no sense.
does she plan on sleeping around in Africa? Does being white make her immune to it?
Ping!
In this nation getting AIDS is a choice, however those who get it expect the rest of us to pay for it.
True that AIDS is a serious problem in Africa, especially in those countries where the UN has come in and told them that indiscriminate sex is fine as long as they use—or forget to use—condoms.
But she was really stupid to go public with a dumb, racist joke like that. Not exactly good public relations for her firm.
So many people get in trouble by posting thoughtless stuff on Facebook or tweeting it around. You’d think they’d learn better.
This is the New Brave World. Tell the truth and suffer the consequences. Welcome to Nazi Amerika
She was fired because she’s a blithering idiot who brought unwanted attention upon her employer.
aids is like global warming. there is no no there there. no one ever died from aids.
Justine Sacco seems like an ignorant airhead. I all not be supporting her.
She is an idiot. This is not about political correctness but rather unabated idiocy. She heads PR for a group of companies, and is thus, right or wrong, the public face of that group of companies. She then goes and posts that tweet. I honestly do not know what she expected, particularly considering her profession is PR and she is a senior executive.
The truth is a dangerous thing in these progressive times.
“Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”
Justine, just keep an aspirin between your knees if nature calls.
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