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I mean presumably you don't think it was a repugnant thing to have posted, but then neither did Justine Sacco.

At the same time, my immediate reaction to this piece was that Justine Musk is a professional novelist.

That woman, Justine Saccos, said something stupid that might have been considered funny amongst a small group of friends.

According to the article, in Justine Sacco's case the Lead Bully was Sam Biddle, editor of Valleywag.

Even if your company is the next Justine Sacco and the everybody hates you, does it really have that big an impact?

If you want an example of a woman who's been involved (more than periphally but not as an identified adherent) look up Justine Tunney.

It's easy to imagine worst case scenario, a la Justine Sacco.

It should be possible to go from Ben Noordhuis in Node to Ben Noordhuis in io, or Justine Sacco in IAC to Justine Sacco wherever she is now, or Sam Biddle to chastened empathetic Sam Biddle, or whatever.

If you remember the Justine Sacco thing (the woman who tweeted something before boarding a plane and went viral before landing) twitter was positively giddy about it.

I don't think Justine Sacco would appreciate being grouped with these people.

I hadn't realized Justine Sacco was director of communications.

If we can manage to learn something from the many Justine Sacco's with ruined lives due to misinterpreted words and actions, it's that due process has value.

From Justine Musk, Elon Musk's wife during those times: "Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.

Do you think that what happened to Justine Sacco was "good" or "fine".

> Do you think that what happened to Justine Sacco was "good" or "fine".

Interesting article, though I wonder why the title here on Hacker News is "How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco's Life" whereas the title on the actual article is "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life."

Justine is just a normal person, so the presumption of the mob is that the literal meaning of what she says is what she meant to communicate.

Justine Sacco wrote a remark criticizing racism, and got fired for appearing to be a racist.

Justine Sacco didn't even go against the dominant narrative, she was just misinterpreted as doing so.