2013: Duckboy nearly loses his gig. On the televisoin.

2011: Barry prepares for re-election.

"I mean, look at Justine Sacco, the world's least-knowledgeable AIDS commentator..."

One in 7 black South Africans are HIV positive. Only in 333 white South Africans are HIV positive:

http://www.avert.org/south-africa-hiv-aids-statistics.htm

Ms Sacco may not have had the statistics at her fingertips, but the medical fact of a huge disparity in HIV-AIDS between blacks & whites in South Africa is common knowledge, or should be to columnists who get paid to write about education.

"IAC was right to flip out on Justine Sacco"

So Rebecca Schuman, self-proclaimed free speech defender, has no problem joining a howling lynch mob out to ruin someone who tweeted the truth.

A PR professional who doesn't have the sense to avoid making a glib comment on Twitter that if not racist, she certainly should have known would be perceived as such, deserves to lose her job. This is exactly what someone in her job should know to avoid.

Rebecca Schuman seems to have gone out of her way to avoid the 900lb gorilla in the faculty lounge, which is that this policy is an extension of similar codes that have been applied to students and student groups on many campuses, and that the academic community has generally failed to criticize these policies, and have often endorsed them. So now their protests just seem like a special pleading for the primacy of 'academic freedom'.