The tweet was soon deleted and the site sent out a second tweet calling the Minaj moment a 'raw, righteous rebuke'. Many readers found it racist to apply the word 'savage' to Minaj, a woman of colour. Meanwhile, liberal news site Salon ran into trouble for its word choice describing a speech by pop star Nicki Minaj at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.Ī tweet on Monday morning called Minaj's highly public attack on Miley Cyrus a 'savage' and 'expletive-laden' 'rant'. No offense was intended.' – Wall Street Journal August 31, 2015 'We recently removed a tweet on our Xi Jinping article because a common idiom used might be seen as a slur.