Random Commentary
This is an amazing tweet:
Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!
— Justine Sacco (@JustineSacco) December 20, 2013
Yes,it’s racist, vile, insensitive, ironic, and everything else the internet has to say. It’s also an amazing set of circumstances:
A PR head-honcho for some recognizable brands (OkCupid, Vimeo, Dictionary.com, The Daily Beast) sends out a time-bomb that detonates as she is incommunicado on a long international flight.
The internet-world turns on her, and the propagandist wizard can’t conjure up a defense.