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Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by gearoidoc on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:16PM (#9040716)
A fair point but comparing the ideal that people should be held responsible for their actions to a bad racist joke intended to highlight that "living in America puts us in a bit of a bubble when it comes to what is going on in the third world" is apples and oranges at best.

If you feel like Gawker would be interested in running a piece on my comment then feel free to go ahead and submit it.

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Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by fenomas on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:54PM (#9040976)
These things are subjective. Presumably Sacco felt that comparing genuinely racist content to someone's sarcastic joke about themselves was apples and oranges as well. I rather do myself.

Put it this way - nobody is against the idea of "people being held responsible for their actions". But it's pretty hard to buy that that's what happened here. I remember when the Sacco thing was trending and I never saw anyone who seemed hurt or angry, or even offended. To the contrary, people were thrilled that some PR asshole was going to get fired but didn't know it yet.

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