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Anyways my actual point about this originally was that Eich's situation doesn't really parallel the situation Sacco went through.

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.

Presumably Sacco felt that comparing genuinely racist content to someone's sarcastic joke about themselves was apples and oranges as well.

My point is - Justine Sacco isn't even on the first page of Justines for me.

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

I remember when the Sacco thing was trending and I never saw anyone who seemed hurt or angry, or even offended.

<sacco>: Oh, I didn't mean it that way - I'm making fun of American insularity.

For one, Eich's situation was pretty enclosed to the tech world, whereas Sacco was a worldwide trending topic that brought her a lot of unwanted attention.

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 can't believe that many people honestly felt that Sacco was being racist.

Maybe google just thinks Sacco is the best Justine for you, but it's probably not as bad as a "global uri".

And to say Eich was "bullied" in the way Sacco was bullied is laughable As you said, it wasn't me who compared them.

How about, "one ironic joke, and then a long flight where she could not communicate that she was being ironic, cost Justine Sacco a lot".

Here's what "should" have happened: <sacco>: <original tweet> <public>: Hey, that's really racist.

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

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

As Sacco’s flight traversed the length of Africa, a hashtag began to trend worldwide: #HasJustineLandedYet.