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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman offends the entire continent of Africa with a Tweet, Twitter gets on the case
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HasJustineLandedYet&src=hash
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HasJustineLandedYet&src=hash&mode=photos
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/justine-sacco-tweet-iac-aids-africa_n_4482502.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)She's like head of PR/Communications.
Good fucking grief.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)They fired her ass.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)But if they don't have a brain and a heart, they don't last very long.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Because, otherwise... yeah. IAC needs to rethink it's hiring process.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)things. On a side note I love your photos of India I've had a want to go there for awhile now I'm hoping now that I've paid off my school debt I can save up the money to go see it
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)It's a strange thing but some people use social media to post every little brainfart that pops up.
That's why I left facebook: I don't need to know what my acquaintances are thinking and doing when I'm not with them.
I lost a lot of respect for some of them just based on their postings. Stuff that pre-facebook I wouldn't know or need to know about.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)alp227
(32,052 posts)Or Greg Lougains. All white Americans who are HIV positive. And people say liberal arts education isn't important?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Anybody think Olivia Pope could get Justine out of this mess?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)no matter if her comments were offensive.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(after all, now that she's unemployed, she has no reason to STAY in South Africa).
The South African authorities must realize that any harm that came to her would just be ammo to the white-supremacist types who are STILL trying to delegitimize majority rule in the country.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)So she has a reason to visit.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(I'd thought it was a business trip).
Daddy probably has tons of security people...his class always does...and I don't think anybody would actually do her physical harm over this.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Oy
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It is the sort of thing that a rival who was desperate for her job might cause to happen to her(hacking, that is).
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)This is an interesting study in how these days an offhand comment can fly around the world and change your life forever. And also how the narcissism of social media allows people to unwittingly expose their prejudices.
I think the next generation will be much more careful about their online presense.
blogslut
(38,016 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)blogslut
(38,016 posts)It was full of very bad joke tweets.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)when I read it, it appeared to be a genuine account of someone under a lot of pressure.
This raises another interesting issue: how do you know what is genuine and what is not in the twittersphere? And how do you know if someone is pretending their account has been hacked, in order to save face?
It's entirely possible that she was advised to make it look like a hoax account because she was just digging herself in deeper.
blogslut
(38,016 posts)A good many celebrities have a blue check icon next to their name on their Twitter accounts:
https://twitter.com/stephenfry
As for this particular woman, it doesn't make sense that she would close her original Twitter account only to create another one with a user name that suggests there were five other Justine Saccos. I mean, come on @justinesacco6?
As for a claim of hacking, it happens but, usually to people who have the attention of a great number of people.
As for the possibility that someone advised that she create a hoax account, that's some very strange advice.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Also, if one of the posts above (in this thread) is correct, her father is a South African bilionaire, which would account for why she claimed her family had disowned her, and indicate that her family might be quite well-known in S Africa.
blogslut
(38,016 posts)Now, mind you, despite this coming from the NYT, a person claims to have spoken to the woman's father and he's actually quite distraught:
Justine and her sister / friend. Shes on the phone to someone. No! I really didnt think it would! She said. http://t.co/HAMxdquPOG
Zac (@Zac_R) 21 Dec 13
Justines dad is apologeti & basically in tears.I decided to raise her in the US. SA was too racist. Oh, the irony! #HasJustineLandedYet
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)It shows the power of social media (whether the postings were genuine or not).
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)comments without the brain first engaged. If she did this, with her position, one would think she would have engaged some thought about what she was saying.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)The info is sadly late for a couple of people I used to know. They're dead now, in spite of their skin color.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)She's a white African herself, and has her daddy's money to fall back on...her twitter history shows what an arse she is
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024208555
savalez
(3,517 posts)Weird German Dude: Youre in first class. Its 2014. Get some deodorant. -Inner monologue as I inhale BO. Thank god for pharmaceuticals.
And on February 24, 2012, she seemed to reveal the explicit contents of a recent dream:
I had a sex dream about an autistic kid last night. #fml
She sucks.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)I got this as a retweet. You can be retweeted hundreds of times and if you say something offensive you will be. By that time you've got a problem, especially if you are posting under your real name.
savalez
(3,517 posts)From a tweet I read: