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An Open Letter to Justine Sacco
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance
. . . the latest victim of a PC lynch mob.
You’re not the only one.
Your tweet is on the front page of almost every media outlet in the world—and it has made you just the latest victim of the politically correct lynch mob.
You made a simple joke, and now you have lost your job and are the most hated person on the Internet.
It must be especially disappointing that the lynch mob includes your own father. I notice that he said he reared you in the United States to get away from the “racism” of South Africa. Of course, he’s not the only former South African who finds it easier to condemn racism from the safety of another country.
People who are close to you are denouncing you and calling your tweet unforgivable. Even if they don’t admit it, they’re doing it partly for the same reason your dad fled “his” country: fear. They are afraid that unless they denounce and scorn you they will be accused of “racism,” too.
Lots of people are sending you gloating messages, death threats, and obscenities. They are going to keep doing it no matter how much you beg for them to stop. Needless to say, none of them will be punished or even denounced. They will be applauded.
Let me send you something different: First, my deepest sympathy. This is agony you do not deserve. And now, let me send you some advice.
Bad news first . . .
Some say Justine Sacco's comment was actually coming from the Left, meant to mock what un-PC whites are supposed to cluelessly believe about AIDS. Of course then it would be even more telling that she was thrown to the wolves anyway.
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