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She's a victim because the consequences were completely out of proportion to her transgression.
by Pinatubo 12y ago
She's a victim because the consequences were completely out of proportion to her transgression.
- karangoeluw 12y agoReally? She mocked a whole nation, and used a disease that has killed over a million people as a joke in a public forum.
- sliverstorm 12y agoYou're right, she should probably be executed for that joke. /s
- mynameisvlad 12y agoYes, exactly, as a joke. The amount of backlash she got is far greater than the atrocity of making a bad joke.
- subdane 12y agoThe joke was supposed to be on her ignorant statement not on the nation, the disease or the victims. Unfortunately, no one got the joke.
- goostavos 12y agoYou should, in general, stay away from the internet -- especially twitter -- people make these joke things about "serious" stuff all the time. Gotta thicken up that skin, friend.
- theorique 12y agoShe was being ironic - making fun of herself by pretending to be a ditzy, entitled white girl who though that she could never get AIDS. Unfortunately, in her absence, people took her literally and assumed she was serious.
- marcusgarvey 12y agoShe has plenty of reason to now explain it as being ironic, but we'll never know if that was her original intent, will we? Her other tweets from the same period strike me immature and mean-spirited.
- sejje 12y agoSo you choose to believe she meant she literally cannot get AIDS? Come on.
- marcusgarvey 12y agoMy point is, it's natural for her to say afterwards that it was meant ironically now that the backlash has happened. Maybe she's just a jerk who got caught being a jerk.
- sejje 12y agoMy point is, either she was saying it ironically or she was saying it seriously. She can't possibly have said it seriously. Was it a somewhat insensitive joke? Sure. But you can't take the statement at face value.
- npizzolato 12y agoSince, we'll never know the context, better call her a racist, publicly shame her. and get her fired!
- marcusgarvey 12y agoShe publicly broadcasted something that was, at best and assuming one gives her the benefit of the doubt, extremely insensitive and in any case indicative that she is perhaps not the best choice to be a communications director. If an accountant got caught stealing in her off hours should she expect to find herself still employed?
- ForHackernews 12y ago> She mocked a whole nation, and used a disease that has killed over a million people as a joke in a public forum. Pssst...Africa is a continent, not a nation.