Salon Apologizes For Tweet Calling Nicki Minaj ‘Savage,’ but Twitter Won’t Have It

Salon published a tweet Monday morning about the unscripted verbal spat between Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus during Sunday night’s MTV VMAs in which the former was referred to as a “savage.” The news website’s Twitter account quickly removed the previous tweet and replaced it with another, but social media activists were already up in arms by then.

Here’s the original and subsequently corrected tweets, via Ryan Dalton:

This is not an apology, @Salon. pic.twitter.com/cKS3Q7MKTf

— Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) August 31, 2015

The first describes Minaj’s “rant” against Cyrus as “savage” and “expletive-laden,” whereas the former rewrites it as “raw, righteous rebuke.” However, despite the correction, activist Twitter wasn’t having it:

.@Salon tweeter, look up the definitions of: 1. Savage 2. Laden 3. Rant .@Salon, get a new tweeter.

— Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) August 31, 2015

UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE @capetownbrown the so-called progressive @Salon called Nicki savage?!? pic.twitter.com/T7Mz85EP83

— liza sabater (@blogdiva) August 31, 2015

YO @Salon there’s a long tradition of white people calling us caribs “savage”. wanna go there? @capetownbrown pic.twitter.com/TQAm6nGzDs

— liza sabater (@blogdiva) August 31, 2015

Salon issued an apology on Twitter within the next hour:

Earlier today we used a poor choice of words in describing Nicki Minaj’s VMA acceptance speech. We apologize to Ms. Minaj and our readers

— Salon.com (@Salon) August 31, 2015

Yet this still wasn’t enough for some:

.@Salon, her Twitter handle is @NICKIMINAJ. https://t.co/yI0mjn64WK

— deray mckesson (@deray) August 31, 2015

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