Doesn't look too guilty. Maybe a case of blondzheimers.
Posted on 02/13/2015 6:48:11 AM PST by C19fan
As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the indignities of travel. There was one about a fellow passenger on the flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport:
“ ‘Weird German Dude: You’re in First Class. It’s 2014. Get some deodorant.’ — Inner monologue as I inhale BO. Thank God for pharmaceuticals.”
Then, during her layover at Heathrow:
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I don’t tweet. The only thing 140 characters allows you to do is make a fool of yourself.
Sure, you could come up with something pithy on VERY rare occasion, but there is a reason such quotes are revered - they are rare.
Dumb tweets are the rule, no matter who you are.
Excuse me, but what do you think FR is?
Twitter is especially pointless
Unless you're one of the Democratic anointed one like 0 or Biden. Then it doesn't matter what you say or do.
The greatest sins used to be murder and rape. Now the greatest sin is to say something that is politically incorrect. This has become Stalinesque which is just what the freedom-hating Left wants.
If my family was like that, I'd be looking for a new family. Good riddance.
I will not subscribe to the NY Times, so could some kind person please tell me how what she wrote could possibly cause this woman’s life to blow up? Germans are well known to be a little smelly.
> Twitter is especially pointless
Not to narcissists...: )
FR doesn’t qualify as “social media” because you are not personally identified.
I’m not aware of anybody getting fired for posts here.
Doesn't look too guilty. Maybe a case of blondzheimers.
This is incredibly silly.
It’s amazing to me that so many people would pay attention to twitter and take a quote from an ordinary non-celebrity viral.
#NotSharingMyLife
I don't subscribe to it either but was able to read the story which is pretty gruesome. Just click it. One more hit will not effect the fortunes of the NYT.
They spilled a lot of ink on this thing and I coundn’t get through it all but it seems that one underlying theme is that since this chick passess the NYT progressive ideology test, she’s not responsible for her own racist comments. It was Twitter’s fault!
It depends on what you use Twitter for. There is no better news aggregator and source for breaking news.
Also, you can pointedly interact with many legacy and new media members, and you’ll usually get a reply.
White liberals created the grievance/offence industry. They deserve to get eaten by it.
FR is not all that different.
Hundred and forty characters per tweet and this priss (Ronson) takes 140 paragraphs to fail to make a point.
Sheesh.
Don’t get me wrong, the written word is great for communications. However, it is not the end-all. When a comment is written, no one (many times on here) can always tell if it’s sarcasm or not, they can’t hear the inflection in your voice or your facial or body gestures. That is why it is so easy to be misinterpreted.
These people that go on to rip on people for making mistakes are just plain malevolent. The one that gets my goat the most is the lady who overheard a poorly made joke and tweeted it and ruined a guys life. I mean, the guy didn’t do it to himself and still got fired and had his life ruined. That’s kind of scary. I’m not sorry what happened to her. She (out of everyone in the article) actually deserved what happened to her.
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