Education Dept. Apologizes After Getting Mocked on Twitter for Misspelling W.E.B. Du Bois’ Name
The Department of Education apologized this afternoon after receiving quite a lot of Twitter mockery for misspelling the name of one of the founders of the NAACP.
This is the initial tweet they sent out about W.E.B. Du Bois (which is still up, as of this posting):
And cue the Twitter mockery over the irony of this particular department getting its spelling wrong:
"In the Days of Loose & Careless Logic, We Must Teach Thinkers to THINK." – William Edward Burghardt DU Bois ?? https://t.co/3m03Vnt5C1
— NAACP (@NAACP) February 12, 2017
.@usedgov *W.E.B. Du Bois
All good. Not like this is the official Twitter for the US Department of Education. ?
— Ryan Wyatt (@Fwiz) February 12, 2017
@usedgov Looks like @BetsyDeVos is in charge now! pic.twitter.com/paajsZsUSL
— Mike Flacy (@mikeflacy) February 12, 2017
@usedgov OMG, it's DuBois. Who is in charge over there?…oh, wait, I get it.
— Jennifer Morgan (@ProfJLMorgan) February 12, 2017
.@usedgov: W.E.B. Du Bois. Gee, if you quote an @NAACP founding member about education on #FoundersDay during #BHM, spell his name right! ✊? https://t.co/jNI0CHsprj
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) February 12, 2017
Um. You spelled his name wrong. It's DuBois. Happy Black History Month, everybody! https://t.co/q1TLQpH386
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) February 12, 2017
And teaching spelling wouldn't hurt. #WEBDuBois https://t.co/l7dDbUky0r
— David Daniel (@CNNLADavid) February 12, 2017
Is it funny sad or sad funny that our Dept. of Education misspelled the name of the great W. E. B. Du Bois? https://t.co/egi6Nn15gp
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) February 12, 2017
Heaven help us! The Dept. of Education misspelled DuBois… #bydhttmwfi https://t.co/PT6I1Em8aN
— LeVar Burton (@levarburton) February 12, 2017
The department ended up tweeting out a corrected version and apologizing for the error:
Post updated – our deepest apologies for the earlier typo.
— US Dept of Education (@usedgov) February 12, 2017
Unfortunately, the first version of that tweet also contained a typo:
"our deepest apologizes" pic.twitter.com/0STAOGo3fD
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) February 12, 2017
[image via screengrab]
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