Terrible AIDS Tweet Gets PR Exec Fired Before Her Plane Lands

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“The communications director for the Internet giant that owns popular websites like Match.com, Dictionary.com, and Vimeo has been fired over “hateful statements” in a tweet that came from her account.

The tweet Friday from the account of Justine Sacco read: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”

InterActive Corp, Sacco’s employer, issued a statement to ABC News this afternoon distancing itself from the tweet and saying the employee was fired.

“There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally,” the InterActive Corp statement said.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Kami Dimitrova / ABC News:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/woman-fired-tweet-aids-africa-sparks-internet-outrage/story?id=21298519

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Comments

  1. have I missed something or is Nobody from Conservative or Liberals coming to her “aid” (no pun intended) for her freedom of speech…I think we have a Winner here folks.

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