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What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure
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- benjaminwootton 13y agoI don't understand why the first Tweet is offensive or disrespectful? Same goes for the PG comments last week. People are very quick to escalate stuff like this when there are enough real injustices around where they could be targeting their time and efforts.
- mtrimpe 13y agoA quick glance at the urban dictionary should be enough to get you started: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=miss%20thang http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=miss%20thang It's a bit like reminding African American participants to sign up using one of the terms from http://www.rsdb.org/race/blacks http://www.rsdb.org/race/blacks
- bbwharris 13y agoThats it. I was confused too. I thought the term was just slang, and not a slur that meant anything. So, shows how we all can learn and be better.
- visakanv 13y agoThe thing is, just because you or I don't see how something is offensive doesn't mean that it isn't. A phrase like "real injustice" is our way of subtly saying "we get to define what injustice is, you don't."
- shiftpgdn 13y agoBecause there is now a culture of co-opting or manufacturing outrage as part of some sort of ridiculous social justice movement. Unfortunately twitter, tumbler, etc gives idiots a loud mouthpiece for things like this when previously they would have just been ignored.
- mtrimpe 13y agoWhat if your local football team was trying to recruit more technically minded people and tweeted this: YO GEEKTARDS: y u nerds no apply yet? only 6 days left! Would it be 'manufacturing outrage' if you made a comment about that not being the best way to go about things?
- collyw 13y agoWouldn't offend me, but I wouldn't expect them to get many applications either.
- notgoodrobot 13y agoI agree, this piece seems to be more pr than anything else.
- gdilla 13y agohey tonedeaf brogrammer.... /snark
- neuro 13y agoAny usage of Ebonics no matter how playful can upset a person, especially when that person hangs out with butterflies in designer clothing hovering over the unwashed peeps is my guess.
- MattGrommes 13y agoWell, you're not a woman who has to put up with cat-calling and name-calling on the street so I wouldn't expect you to see it as disrespectful. Mr. McClure didn't see it as disrespectful at first either until a number of his followers helped him understand why it would be. This article left out a bunch of the discussion he had with people who called him out on his choice of words, it's worth reading.
- phryk 13y agoHi, I am Troy McClure and you are reading this in my voice.
- notgoodrobot 13y agoYep,yep. I misread the headline and read this hoping for insights from Troy McClure. I really don't care about how a person on Twitter was offended by a tweet. I learned nothing from this blog post.