She was being ironic - making fun of herself by pretending to be a ditzy, entitled white girl who though that she could never get AIDS. Unfortunately, in her absence, people took her literally and assumed she was serious.

> She mocked a whole nation, and used a disease that has killed over a million people as a joke in a public forum.

Pssst...Africa is a continent, not a nation.

Yes, exactly, as a joke. The amount of backlash she got is far greater than the atrocity of making a bad joke.

The joke was supposed to be on her ignorant statement not on the nation, the disease or the victims. Unfortunately, no one got the joke.

You're right, she should probably be executed for that joke. /s

You should, in general, stay away from the internet -- especially twitter -- people make these joke things about "serious" stuff all the time.

Gotta thicken up that skin, friend.