She&#x27;s the person who tweeted “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”<p>From the author of the article:<p><pre><code>  I began to suspect that it wasn’t racist 
  but a reflexive critique of white privilege — 
  on our tendency to naïvely imagine ourselves 
  immune from life’s horrors.
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Yes. I make Sacco&#x27;s kind of joke all the time (in private), and it&#x27;s also meant to be a comment on racism itself. This kind of joke was common in the late 70s and early 80s (see movies like &quot;Blazing Saddles&quot; or Richard Pryor&#x27;s &quot;Live on Sunset Strip&quot;. In those days anyone was allowed to satirize racism that way, black or white. I think it was healthy, because it robbed racism of its power, sort of like saying Voldemort&#x27;s name. Now... not such much.