Just before leaving for South Africa, ad exec Justine Sacco sent out the tweet that militant homosexualists and racists immediately exploited, in order to destroy her life. While Sacco was en route, her employer, InterActive Corp, released the following statement:
“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.”
The company quickly fired her.
The fool then groveled, releasing the following, breathlessly stupid, dishonest statement:
“Words cannot express how sorry I am, and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of South Africa, who I have offended due to a needless and careless tweet. 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.
“For being insensitive to this crisis — which does not discriminate by race, gender or sexual orientation, but which terrifies us all uniformly — and to the millions of people living with the virus, I am ashamed.
“This is my father’s country, and I was born here. I cherish my ties to South Africa and my frequent visits, but I am in anguish knowing that my remarks have caused pain to so many people here; my family, friends and fellow South Africans. I am very sorry for the pain I caused.”
One racist black blogger, Shallie, the proprietor of shallie's purple beehive, reveled in Sacco’s misfortune, stomping her boots on Sacco’s face a few times, for good measure. (I graciously refrained from “siccing” all her typos, because that would have made it impossible to read her.)
I posted the following comment at Shallie’s blog.
Shallie: “Its completely absurd,and shows the level of Ignorance there is out there about issues relating to Africa and the black population at large.
“It is disheartening that such racist issues could have been joked about by a person who thinks she cannot get aids because she is white or that she is going to get aids because she is going to Africa.”
N.S.: Do you know what the odds are of a woman getting infected with HIV by sleeping with a black South African? Who’s the ignorant racist here? And why can’t people joke about it? Do you slam blacks for joking about whites? Of course, not! Please post a list of topics that whites are permitted to joke about.
And now the poor fool is making public statements full of just the sort of ignorance and lies that ideologues like you approve of: “Unfortunately, it is terribly easy to be cavalier about an epidemic that one has never witnessed firsthand…. this crisis — which does not discriminate by race, gender or sexual orientation, but which terrifies us all uniformly”
Of course, she has witnessed the epidemic firsthand—in America! And of course, it does discriminate by race and sexuality. It’s a gay disease that afflicts blacks at many times the rate it affects whites, because the rate of bisexuality among black men is many times the white rate, a smaller proportion of blacks use condoms, and South Africa is the world’s rape capital, with black men having such charming beliefs as that raping a baby will cure them of AIDS.
Sunday, 22 December 2013
How to loose your job in ten seconds;Social Media& the Justine Sacco case study.
Yea its 2013,The 21st Century and we are all getting into this "Digital age Business".Its amazing how we have all embraced Social media from Facebook,Twitter,Blogs and all that shenanigans. Twitter has however proved and is still showing off as the most powerful social media tool ever!
I wouldn't rush to make her out to be something she isn't. She works for an ad agency. Just take a look at the garbage being promoted in most ads. Her apology shows her to be a person of no principle. No way a person like that would defend any of us were the shoe on the other foot. Just another well paid careerist with flexible opinions.
ReplyDeleteDear Nicholas, it's more than obvious you sail the same boat with your "sinless and wrongly accused" Justine. Even Justin's father acknowledged your miss goody two shoes had erred badly. She lost her job as a result of her seemingly lose and insensitive comment on twitter!!!
ReplyDeleteSo it kind of gets me wondering just how much you were paid to embark on this cheap image redeeming venture for Justine. I sincerely doubt if you have as much knowledge of what being racist means, a serious crime punishable by law!!! And if you think airing an opinion about an issue which is infact an issue of hot debate in mainstream media is being racist then it is a reflection of your shallowness and insensitivity. You are not any different from you client who you are fighting so hard to redeem her image. You have now had your five minutes of fame , please take a humble bow. Welcome back to the real world.
Dear Peter,
ReplyDeleteSeeing as I published my first article in 1980, and have over two million words in print, I don’t know what you’re talking about, when you say that I’ve had “five minutes of fame.”
“And if you think airing an opinion about an issue which is infact an issue of hot debate in mainstream media is being racist then it is a reflection of your shallowness and insensitivity.”
What is the “issue which is infact [sic] an issue of hot debate in mainstream media”? It can’t be racism, about which there is no debate whatsoever in the MSM.
As for my “shallowness and insensitivity,”they are only a code phrase for, “I hate you!” There’s no “there,” there.
“Even Justin's [sic] father acknowledged your miss goody two shoes had erred badly.”
Justine’s father is a despicable, dishonest coward. He fled South Africa, due to murderous black racism, only to insinuate that he left due to white racism, and stab his own daughter in the back, while she is being destroyed by the same anti-white racism in America that the family once fled in South Africa.
“I sincerely doubt if you have as much knowledge of what being racist means, a serious crime punishable by law!!!”
“As much knowledge” as who? And I am not aware of any such law. Please enlighten me, and stop writing triple exclamation points, which is as bad as writing in all caps.
And why did you write, “sinless and wrongly accused,” as if you were quoting me, when you knew that you weren’t?
By the way, the fact that most racial socialist propagandists get paid for their wickedness does not permit you to project that state of affairs onto me.
I am tired of the myth that no one gets mad at black people for saying things. I get just as annoyed and frustrated by anyone being racist. Also, I mostly see blacks being insulted these days. It's become trendy.
ReplyDeleteYou're only defending because of her race. Completely ignoring how insensitive she is as a person who can even joke about a disease. Taking light of it is already disturbing. Take off the last part about being "Jk I'm white" or whatever, it still sounds horrible and immature. I can imagine comments like hers being laughed at in the comforts of her home around friends who might even be black and they all act like it was forgivable.
ReplyDeleteBut in public media, I wouldn't pay her. She's creepy and probably would do a half-ass job because she might be racist is exactly what I would think and I'd fire her. Don't pity her circumstance, pity her brain...