"Going to Africa."

shadypines

"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white! "

WOW!!!


https://m.nydailynews.com/1.1554932

shadypines

I don't know why it always amazes me how people that should know better can be so incredibly stupid......

LoveActually4

I just can't even imagine someone would be so closed minded they would say something like that.

shadypines

Is she advising the Dick Dynasty cast?? Mess!!!

Maebb

Now that she's fired from IAC, maybe she can apply for a job at Fox News. She'd fit right in.

DreadLoc

what a dumb bitch.

wesleycrusher

Moidonna said:

I just don't understand how someone can be a PR exec. for a major company, 30 years old, and does not know that a comment like that is a bad idea.

More so than the comment, just the fact that it is a thought that would even enter her head.  Like she shouldn't even have had to have the common sense not to post it- it never should have gotten that far because she shouldn't have ever thought something so completely disgusting in the first place.

wesleycrusher

Moidonna said:

awesomesauce123 said:

Moidonna said:

I just don't understand how someone can be a PR exec. for a major company, 30 years old, and does not know that a comment like that is a bad idea.

More so than the comment, just the fact that it is a thought that would even enter her head.  Like she shouldn't even have had to have the common sense not to post it- it never should have gotten that far because she shouldn't have ever thought something so completely disgusting in the first place.

Agreed.  It definitely reflects her mindset.  I'm just saying she's supposedly an educated person, and she's not young and naive.  Do people with disgusting racist viewpoints really not realize that their opinions are not popular?  Did she truly think that it was okay to say that?  Apparently she did.  

@moidonna just fyi I didn't mean to imply that you didn't think that- I just wanted to add my thought to the discussion and happened to quote you to help get my point across.

wesleycrusher

@HilarityEnsued I don't agree with the lynch mob mentality after her at all. She is a person and she is flawed. But read an article on a major news outlet about a person with HIV/AIDS and the same trolls who say the vile things about Justine come out and say equally vile things about those with HIV/AIDS. I'm in no way saying it's okay to say these things to anyone.  But she's young, white and healthy and eventually she'll get back to a semblance of normalcy.  And those who live with the disease will still have it and the shame and the stigma for the rest of their lives. 

My father died of AIDS when I was 16.  Most people have no idea what the stigma is like.  Very few people in my life know this or if they do they don't know any details (even DH). NOT because I'm ashamed or afraid to talk about it but it's something that THEY are uncomfortable to talk about with me. 

When it happened my mom (my parents were divorced but still friends) told me that I should just say he had cancer.  I did once when I was younger and it's a very real memory to me and now that I am older it shames me that I said it.

The things people say about those with HIV/AIDS are shocking and disgusting, especially when they think  they know their audience.  Like I've had said to me "all people with AIDS are stupid" like I'm supposed to agree it's a funny joke. It's not.  It's hurtful on such a level that hopefully you have never had/never will have to understand.  And that example is such a minor incidence, there are far far worse things said to/about people with HIV/AIDS everyday. Careless "jokes" like these normalize discrimination of an already marginalized group and perpetuate the stigma these people carry.

wesleycrusher

@HilarityEnsued It is an issue that goes way beyond this one person and this one comment. I just wanted to explain my relation to the story, like you explained yours.  The story is personal to us for opposite reasons, but I do think we both have the same conclusion- simply put that no one deserves to be vilified.

BluepointToasted

I think the media is eating itself In a way that is going to lead to the destruction of society. I feel like an old giddy diddly thinking this way, but the way information travels and then gets compounded on every single information source is nothing short of bizarre. Five years ago no body would have even known, much less given a fuck, about what most of these people were saying or doing. This all makes me want to live on a compound somewhere. (As I bump)