A Twitter Message About AIDS, Followed by a Firing and an Apology – NYTimes.com:
By Saturday afternoon, Ms. Sacco was no longer an employee at IAC. The company’s statement also said:
There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally. We hope, however, that time and action, and the forgiving human spirit, will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core.
[Yes, I know why she got fired. But I’m askin’ “why did she get fired”. If they know her to be a “decent person at core” then shouldn’t they have forgiven this misstep? Nah, it’s clearly expedient for the company to remove a social liability… Jobs are complicated things but it always concerned me that most companies have no moral compass of their own. Might there not have been an alternative to “off with her head?”
And BTW, don’t join a mob, you cannot control the outcome and it’ll rarely be what you expect.]
turnings :: daniel berlinger 
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