She problaby should lose her job for the tweet. I think that is reasonable for a public person.
Shaming to conform to social norms was maybe is and important part of our evolutionary make up. How do things like racisim, homophobia and others get changed. The first step is usually logic and converstaion but when that fails what are societies options to further in act positive change? Refusing to tolerate and objecting to the offending behaviour is the only way to stop it.
The problem with the internet is it goes to far. The guy repearting the tweet and here getting fiired from her job is probably a reasonable consequence. The long term shame associated with it is not. So maybe the issue is when people pile on. Bringing it out into the open for all to see is valuable and can create positive change but shaming a person into submission and changing the way someone has to live is not.
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