📝 AITAH for publicly shaming someone who made a racist comment as a joke that led to them getting fired?

By Ok_Potential359 • Score: 0 • April 8, 2025 4:37 AM


I posted on /r/LinkedInLunatics someone I knew from LinkedIn.

She’s doesn’t really come off as racist and I think she was trying to be funny but she made a pretty derogatory remark about Indians.

Again, maybe it was her sense of humor, it was after all an AI image of an Indian GTA and I think she may have been poking fun at that — but it was pretty messed up what she said, so I posted about her with her name and picture.

It basically blew up almost immediately and she nuked her entire 15K follower profile off LinkedIn and I think she got fired from her job. My post is still up, over 300K+ people have seen it.

On one hand, don’t say racist stuff, right?

But on the other, maybe she didn’t think was bad and it came off in poor taste.

I tried messaging her that someone may find it offensive but she responded with:

I know we're in 2025 (the fragile ego year), but still.. if one can't take a joke, might as well skip it

AITA?

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