Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think the employee was the problem:

Barry Hobson, the chief of staff for the Metro workers union — Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 — said in a statement the Metro employee was taking her meal break while in transit from one assignment to another. The statement notes operators have "an average of 20 minutes to consume a meal and get to their next access point to ensure all buses and trains are on time, safe, and ready to serve the riding public.”

From the article posted by OP.

Well then that needs to be addressed in the CBA.
But as a union worker, I can smell the typical BS a mile away. It’s his job to cover for his people. It makes them all look bad when a member is called out.

Give me a break there are a lot of rules that are rules for the public but are different for employees.
Cops can run red lights on the way to A service call
And ambulance can run a red light on the way to device call
I’ve been in lots of doctors offices in which the public is not allowed to use their cell phones but the employees are allowed to use their phones
Been to plenty of public buildings where it says restrooms for employees only
There are plenty of circumstances, contexts, environments in which there are separate rules for those who work there and those who patronize there
if you don’t know the difference, if you don’t get it that’s on you

Exactly! How many of you are taking pics of cops running red lights, speeding, etc then sending the pics in to get them fired?

A black officer speeding or running a red light is rushing to help. Why would I take a pic of that?

How do you know he is black? How do you know he is rushing for help?

Do you take a picture of the flight attendant standing up when the fasten seat belt light is on?

No. In both cases they are doing their jobs. The black flight attendant is doing their job.

But you aren’t allowed to stand up and run red lights. The metro employee was on her way to her job with a 20min break. They allow her to eat on the train. She was doing her job.

Running red light / standing during flight - part of their jobs
Chowing down on a hot plate? Not

Look at the article that was posted. If eating on the train is so important to you, get a job with metro.

You have no idea if running the red light is for their job.

Right. We don’t know about the red might running
We DO KNOW that eating on the train ISN’T part of her job.

But she's black.

Nornal rules don't apply.

Yes, it’s only normal when white people get special treatment.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

It’s totally the same. If PP had said something, what if a the line cutter caused a scene and a bystander recorded it? That could have then been posted and gone viral, with the same consequences. The reason iit didn’t happen is because PP decided to remain silent and let it slide.

So yes, it is the same.

White people have remained silent for centuries about the treatment of black people, and now you’re shocked that things have turned out this way?

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Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

No
No it’s not

And the reason it’s not the same it’s because you made up the whole thing you wanted to add religion and race because you’re oversensitive white supremacist leaning attitude is that Muslim people and people of color are now some kind of over protected class and white folks especially white men are getting The short end of the stick.
Boo-hoo for you.

Typical DCUM. If you don’t like what’s being said, state with utter certainty that the poster made it up. Great way to make your point.

Is your brain. Mode my point was the person who made up that scenario she totally made it up I’m quite certain of that .
And what is typical of DC USA is for folks like you and the previous poster, who could be one in the same, come on here whining about people of color and people of the Islamic faith and how they play the so-called race card, religion card, victim card and you have such cognitive dissonance you don’t realize that is exactly what you’re doing. You’re playing victim to those who really are victims of religious and racial inequality and oppression.
Your head is spun into such unbearable heights of anxiety and stress because you can no longer do and say things to other people that are in sensitive and delicate ugly just because they come to your mind you’re used to being able to do that in a free-for-all context in which nobody called you on your bull***
and now you don’t know what to do and how to act because people are calling you out.
grow up!

I was the first poster you are referring to, but I didn’t post this. My post was not made up but asked on actual observations. I have no problem with Muslims. I was talking about Arabs. You do realize they aren’t always the same right?

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Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

No
No it’s not

And the reason it’s not the same it’s because you made up the whole thing you wanted to add religion and race because you’re oversensitive white supremacist leaning attitude is that Muslim people and people of color are now some kind of over protected class and white folks especially white men are getting The short end of the stick.
Boo-hoo for you.

Typical DCUM. If you don’t like what’s being said, state with utter certainty that the poster made it up. Great way to make your point.

Is your brain. Mode my point was the person who made up that scenario she totally made it up I’m quite certain of that .
And what is typical of DC USA is for folks like you and the previous poster, who could be one in the same, come on here whining about people of color and people of the Islamic faith and how they play the so-called race card, religion card, victim card and you have such cognitive dissonance you don’t realize that is exactly what you’re doing. You’re playing victim to those who really are victims of religious and racial inequality and oppression.
Your head is spun into such unbearable heights of anxiety and stress because you can no longer do and say things to other people that are in sensitive and delicate ugly just because they come to your mind you’re used to being able to do that in a free-for-all context in which nobody called you on your bull***
and now you don’t know what to do and how to act because people are calling you out.
grow up!

I was the first poster you are referring to, but I didn’t post this. My post was not made up but asked on actual observations. I have no problem with Muslims. I was talking about Arabs. You do realize they aren’t always the same right?

What the hell are you talking about I never said anything about Arabs I was talking about the so-called person of color Muslim line cutter!!
keep up !!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So - a DC woman tweeted out a photo of a uniformed metro employee eating on the Metro, noting that Metro prohibits eating on the metro, and complaining about a metro employee violating the same rule metro employees ask riders to respect. The tweeter is Arab American and the metro employee she complained about is a black woman. Now her publisher and book distributor are cancelling her novel's publication as a result. (See Post article below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/11/dc-pundit-shamed-metro-worker-eating-train-now-her-book-deal-is-jeopardy/?utm_term=.804898e5dbb8).

So, I agree her tweet was unnecessary and thoughtless: metro employees are low wage workers who get very short breaks, and this poor metro employee could now get fired.

But a) Metro does enforce its no eating policy, often in absurd and horrible ways, often against people of color, so is it really inherently horrendous for the tweeting author to highlight that this is a bit hypocritical? (see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?utm_term=.fe6adc99091b)

And b) If she had instead posted a photo of a uniformed DC cop breaking a law that other people go to jail for breaking (maybe having an open container of alcohol, or peeing in an alley), would everyone be calling her a racist if the cop in her photo was African America - as opposed to thanking her for highlighting police hypocrisy?

And c) Her book was cancelled, WTF? Even if you think her tweet was completely thoughtless, should this really lead to her book being nixed?

I consider myself very much on the left and I think both commuters and metro employees should be able to eat on the metro without fear of arrest or discipline, and I also think low wage workers get a shitty deal, and low wage African American female workers get a particularly shitty deal. But I also think it's frightening that this tweeter's NOVEL has been cancelled because of a tweet that was, at worst, thoughtless, for which she has already apologized.

Am I missing something?

While we don’t want to jump on the race bandwagon, many Arabs are racist. They will often be obsequious to white people but dismissive or outright rude to black people. Is this writer racist? I don’t know. Would she have taken a picture of a white employee eating? I don’t know the answer to that either. I do have an issue with her publishing the employee’s picture. Regardless of the fact that she was breaking the rules, she doesn’t deserve to be shamed publicly. Metro has a system in place for complaints, and she should have gone that route.

See the bolded statement. That one gross generalization about an entire group negates the rest of your entire post. Too bad, because you had a point there when you say she should have filed a complaint rather than posting online. But blathering that "many Arabs are racist" is so vastly general and nasty that it paints you pretty poorly. Fill in any other group for "Arabs" there and it's an equally stupid generalization, and those kinds of blanket statements only make today's antagonistic environment worse, never better.

I’ve lived in the Middle East for 11 years, so I know a little more than you, and this is not some gross generalization. I’ve witnessed it, black Arabs have told me about their experiences, and other Arabs have discussed it with me. This is not ‘blathering’ but something that actually happens. I did not say all Arabs; I said many.

What my Arab friends tell me is that American blacks are the most racist people they have met in their lives.

Not American whites or Latinos. Blacks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

No
No it’s not

And the reason it’s not the same it’s because you made up the whole thing you wanted to add religion and race because you’re oversensitive white supremacist leaning attitude is that Muslim people and people of color are now some kind of over protected class and white folks especially white men are getting The short end of the stick.
Boo-hoo for you.

Typical DCUM. If you don’t like what’s being said, state with utter certainty that the poster made it up. Great way to make your point.

Is your brain. Mode my point was the person who made up that scenario she totally made it up I’m quite certain of that .
And what is typical of DC USA is for folks like you and the previous poster, who could be one in the same, come on here whining about people of color and people of the Islamic faith and how they play the so-called race card, religion card, victim card and you have such cognitive dissonance you don’t realize that is exactly what you’re doing. You’re playing victim to those who really are victims of religious and racial inequality and oppression.
Your head is spun into such unbearable heights of anxiety and stress because you can no longer do and say things to other people that are in sensitive and delicate ugly just because they come to your mind you’re used to being able to do that in a free-for-all context in which nobody called you on your bull***
and now you don’t know what to do and how to act because people are calling you out.
grow up!

I was the first poster you are referring to, but I didn’t post this. My post was not made up but asked on actual observations. I have no problem with Muslims. I was talking about Arabs. You do realize they aren’t always the same right?

What the hell are you talking about I never said anything about Arabs I was talking about the so-called person of color Muslim line cutter!!
keep up !!

I thought you were referring to my previous post about Arabs and racism when you wrote ‘And what is typical of DC USA is for folks like you and the previous poster, who could be one in the same

My apologies if I was mistaken.

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Anonymous wrote:So - a DC woman tweeted out a photo of a uniformed metro employee eating on the Metro, noting that Metro prohibits eating on the metro, and complaining about a metro employee violating the same rule metro employees ask riders to respect. The tweeter is Arab American and the metro employee she complained about is a black woman. Now her publisher and book distributor are cancelling her novel's publication as a result. (See Post article below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/11/dc-pundit-shamed-metro-worker-eating-train-now-her-book-deal-is-jeopardy/?utm_term=.804898e5dbb8).

So, I agree her tweet was unnecessary and thoughtless: metro employees are low wage workers who get very short breaks, and this poor metro employee could now get fired.

But a) Metro does enforce its no eating policy, often in absurd and horrible ways, often against people of color, so is it really inherently horrendous for the tweeting author to highlight that this is a bit hypocritical? (see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?utm_term=.fe6adc99091b)

And b) If she had instead posted a photo of a uniformed DC cop breaking a law that other people go to jail for breaking (maybe having an open container of alcohol, or peeing in an alley), would everyone be calling her a racist if the cop in her photo was African America - as opposed to thanking her for highlighting police hypocrisy?

And c) Her book was cancelled, WTF? Even if you think her tweet was completely thoughtless, should this really lead to her book being nixed?

I consider myself very much on the left and I think both commuters and metro employees should be able to eat on the metro without fear of arrest or discipline, and I also think low wage workers get a shitty deal, and low wage African American female workers get a particularly shitty deal. But I also think it's frightening that this tweeter's NOVEL has been cancelled because of a tweet that was, at worst, thoughtless, for which she has already apologized.

Am I missing something?

While we don’t want to jump on the race bandwagon, many Arabs are racist. They will often be obsequious to white people but dismissive or outright rude to black people. Is this writer racist? I don’t know. Would she have taken a picture of a white employee eating? I don’t know the answer to that either. I do have an issue with her publishing the employee’s picture. Regardless of the fact that she was breaking the rules, she doesn’t deserve to be shamed publicly. Metro has a system in place for complaints, and she should have gone that route.

See the bolded statement. That one gross generalization about an entire group negates the rest of your entire post. Too bad, because you had a point there when you say she should have filed a complaint rather than posting online. But blathering that "many Arabs are racist" is so vastly general and nasty that it paints you pretty poorly. Fill in any other group for "Arabs" there and it's an equally stupid generalization, and those kinds of blanket statements only make today's antagonistic environment worse, never better.

I’ve lived in the Middle East for 11 years, so I know a little more than you, and this is not some gross generalization. I’ve witnessed it, black Arabs have told me about their experiences, and other Arabs have discussed it with me. This is not ‘blathering’ but something that actually happens. I did not say all Arabs; I said many.

What my Arab friends tell me is that American blacks are the most racist people they have met in their lives.

Not American whites or Latinos. Blacks.

Maybe your friends aren’t hiding their racism very well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So - a DC woman tweeted out a photo of a uniformed metro employee eating on the Metro, noting that Metro prohibits eating on the metro, and complaining about a metro employee violating the same rule metro employees ask riders to respect. The tweeter is Arab American and the metro employee she complained about is a black woman. Now her publisher and book distributor are cancelling her novel's publication as a result. (See Post article below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/11/dc-pundit-shamed-metro-worker-eating-train-now-her-book-deal-is-jeopardy/?utm_term=.804898e5dbb8).

So, I agree her tweet was unnecessary and thoughtless: metro employees are low wage workers who get very short breaks, and this poor metro employee could now get fired.

But a) Metro does enforce its no eating policy, often in absurd and horrible ways, often against people of color, so is it really inherently horrendous for the tweeting author to highlight that this is a bit hypocritical? (see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?utm_term=.fe6adc99091b)

And b) If she had instead posted a photo of a uniformed DC cop breaking a law that other people go to jail for breaking (maybe having an open container of alcohol, or peeing in an alley), would everyone be calling her a racist if the cop in her photo was African America - as opposed to thanking her for highlighting police hypocrisy?

And c) Her book was cancelled, WTF? Even if you think her tweet was completely thoughtless, should this really lead to her book being nixed?

I consider myself very much on the left and I think both commuters and metro employees should be able to eat on the metro without fear of arrest or discipline, and I also think low wage workers get a shitty deal, and low wage African American female workers get a particularly shitty deal. But I also think it's frightening that this tweeter's NOVEL has been cancelled because of a tweet that was, at worst, thoughtless, for which she has already apologized.

Am I missing something?

While we don’t want to jump on the race bandwagon, many Arabs are racist. They will often be obsequious to white people but dismissive or outright rude to black people. Is this writer racist? I don’t know. Would she have taken a picture of a white employee eating? I don’t know the answer to that either. I do have an issue with her publishing the employee’s picture. Regardless of the fact that she was breaking the rules, she doesn’t deserve to be shamed publicly. Metro has a system in place for complaints, and she should have gone that route.

See the bolded statement. That one gross generalization about an entire group negates the rest of your entire post. Too bad, because you had a point there when you say she should have filed a complaint rather than posting online. But blathering that "many Arabs are racist" is so vastly general and nasty that it paints you pretty poorly. Fill in any other group for "Arabs" there and it's an equally stupid generalization, and those kinds of blanket statements only make today's antagonistic environment worse, never better.

I’ve lived in the Middle East for 11 years, so I know a little more than you, and this is not some gross generalization. I’ve witnessed it, black Arabs have told me about their experiences, and other Arabs have discussed it with me. This is not ‘blathering’ but something that actually happens. I did not say all Arabs; I said many.

What my Arab friends tell me is that American blacks are the most racist people they have met in their lives.

Not American whites or Latinos. Blacks.

Maybe your friends aren’t hiding their racism very well.

Maybe.

Or maybe they have a point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So - a DC woman tweeted out a photo of a uniformed metro employee eating on the Metro, noting that Metro prohibits eating on the metro, and complaining about a metro employee violating the same rule metro employees ask riders to respect. The tweeter is Arab American and the metro employee she complained about is a black woman. Now her publisher and book distributor are cancelling her novel's publication as a result. (See Post article below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/11/dc-pundit-shamed-metro-worker-eating-train-now-her-book-deal-is-jeopardy/?utm_term=.804898e5dbb8).

So, I agree her tweet was unnecessary and thoughtless: metro employees are low wage workers who get very short breaks, and this poor metro employee could now get fired.

But a) Metro does enforce its no eating policy, often in absurd and horrible ways, often against people of color, so is it really inherently horrendous for the tweeting author to highlight that this is a bit hypocritical? (see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?utm_term=.fe6adc99091b)

And b) If she had instead posted a photo of a uniformed DC cop breaking a law that other people go to jail for breaking (maybe having an open container of alcohol, or peeing in an alley), would everyone be calling her a racist if the cop in her photo was African America - as opposed to thanking her for highlighting police hypocrisy?

And c) Her book was cancelled, WTF? Even if you think her tweet was completely thoughtless, should this really lead to her book being nixed?

I consider myself very much on the left and I think both commuters and metro employees should be able to eat on the metro without fear of arrest or discipline, and I also think low wage workers get a shitty deal, and low wage African American female workers get a particularly shitty deal. But I also think it's frightening that this tweeter's NOVEL has been cancelled because of a tweet that was, at worst, thoughtless, for which she has already apologized.

Am I missing something?

While we don’t want to jump on the race bandwagon, many Arabs are racist. They will often be obsequious to white people but dismissive or outright rude to black people. Is this writer racist? I don’t know. Would she have taken a picture of a white employee eating? I don’t know the answer to that either. I do have an issue with her publishing the employee’s picture. Regardless of the fact that she was breaking the rules, she doesn’t deserve to be shamed publicly. Metro has a system in place for complaints, and she should have gone that route.

See the bolded statement. That one gross generalization about an entire group negates the rest of your entire post. Too bad, because you had a point there when you say she should have filed a complaint rather than posting online. But blathering that "many Arabs are racist" is so vastly general and nasty that it paints you pretty poorly. Fill in any other group for "Arabs" there and it's an equally stupid generalization, and those kinds of blanket statements only make today's antagonistic environment worse, never better.

I’ve lived in the Middle East for 11 years, so I know a little more than you, and this is not some gross generalization. I’ve witnessed it, black Arabs have told me about their experiences, and other Arabs have discussed it with me. This is not ‘blathering’ but something that actually happens. I did not say all Arabs; I said many.

What my Arab friends tell me is that American blacks are the most racist people they have met in their lives.

Not American whites or Latinos. Blacks.

Maybe your friends aren’t hiding their racism very well.

Maybe.

Or maybe they have a point.

Yes, I’m sure your friends are always right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So - a DC woman tweeted out a photo of a uniformed metro employee eating on the Metro, noting that Metro prohibits eating on the metro, and complaining about a metro employee violating the same rule metro employees ask riders to respect. The tweeter is Arab American and the metro employee she complained about is a black woman. Now her publisher and book distributor are cancelling her novel's publication as a result. (See Post article below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/11/dc-pundit-shamed-metro-worker-eating-train-now-her-book-deal-is-jeopardy/?utm_term=.804898e5dbb8).

So, I agree her tweet was unnecessary and thoughtless: metro employees are low wage workers who get very short breaks, and this poor metro employee could now get fired.

But a) Metro does enforce its no eating policy, often in absurd and horrible ways, often against people of color, so is it really inherently horrendous for the tweeting author to highlight that this is a bit hypocritical? (see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?utm_term=.fe6adc99091b)

And b) If she had instead posted a photo of a uniformed DC cop breaking a law that other people go to jail for breaking (maybe having an open container of alcohol, or peeing in an alley), would everyone be calling her a racist if the cop in her photo was African America - as opposed to thanking her for highlighting police hypocrisy?

And c) Her book was cancelled, WTF? Even if you think her tweet was completely thoughtless, should this really lead to her book being nixed?

I consider myself very much on the left and I think both commuters and metro employees should be able to eat on the metro without fear of arrest or discipline, and I also think low wage workers get a shitty deal, and low wage African American female workers get a particularly shitty deal. But I also think it's frightening that this tweeter's NOVEL has been cancelled because of a tweet that was, at worst, thoughtless, for which she has already apologized.

Am I missing something?

While we don’t want to jump on the race bandwagon, many Arabs are racist. They will often be obsequious to white people but dismissive or outright rude to black people. Is this writer racist? I don’t know. Would she have taken a picture of a white employee eating? I don’t know the answer to that either. I do have an issue with her publishing the employee’s picture. Regardless of the fact that she was breaking the rules, she doesn’t deserve to be shamed publicly. Metro has a system in place for complaints, and she should have gone that route.

See the bolded statement. That one gross generalization about an entire group negates the rest of your entire post. Too bad, because you had a point there when you say she should have filed a complaint rather than posting online. But blathering that "many Arabs are racist" is so vastly general and nasty that it paints you pretty poorly. Fill in any other group for "Arabs" there and it's an equally stupid generalization, and those kinds of blanket statements only make today's antagonistic environment worse, never better.

I’ve lived in the Middle East for 11 years, so I know a little more than you, and this is not some gross generalization. I’ve witnessed it, black Arabs have told me about their experiences, and other Arabs have discussed it with me. This is not ‘blathering’ but something that actually happens. I did not say all Arabs; I said many.

What my Arab friends tell me is that American blacks are the most racist people they have met in their lives.

Not American whites or Latinos. Blacks.

Maybe your friends aren’t hiding their racism very well.

Maybe.

Or maybe they have a point.

Yes, I’m sure your friends are always right.

How does someone making a point translate into them always being right? Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Anonymous wrote:I love the metro employee for this:

"You worry about yourself."

That is perfect advice.

So that’s an acceptable thing to say when you are caught doing something wrong? I’m so going to use that next time I get pulled over for something.

Cop: “ma’am, I pulled you over because you were doing 75 in a 55mph zone.”

Me: “worry about yourself.”

PP would LOVE me. And DCUM would be so proud!

That would be the cop’s job.

Questioning the metro worker eating and posting that photo was not Metro Mandy’s job.

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Also some clarification here:

The worker had an open plate of food on her lap. Correct?

Is an open plate somehow more offensive?

Yes. Much
Plate of food spilling everywhere/ stinking up the train
Vs
Granola bar

Exaggerate much

Yep, PP assumes spilling and that the food is stinky (a dog whistle for “ethnic” food) although we don’t have that info.

Why does it have to be ethnic food? Are you actually debating that an open plate of food gives off less aroma (stinky is debatable - what stinks to one may not stink to another) than a granola bar? Or were you just itching to throw DOG WHISTLE (another phrase du jour) into the conversation?

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Anonymous wrote:I love the metro employee for this:

"You worry about yourself."

That is perfect advice.

So that’s an acceptable thing to say when you are caught doing something wrong? I’m so going to use that next time I get pulled over for something.

Cop: “ma’am, I pulled you over because you were doing 75 in a 55mph zone.”

Me: “worry about yourself.”

PP would LOVE me. And DCUM would be so proud!

That would be the cop’s job.

Questioning the metro worker eating and posting that photo was not Metro Mandy’s job.

So what you are saying is that unless it it your job, no one can call out another person for doing something wrong? So if one of the off leash morons in my neighborhood has his dog off leash, because I’m not Animal control I can’t tell him it’s illegal to have your dog off leash in our county, and then request him to leash his dog, because it’s NOT MY JOB TO DO THAT?

This is priceless.

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Anonymous wrote:So - a DC woman tweeted out a photo of a uniformed metro employee eating on the Metro, noting that Metro prohibits eating on the metro, and complaining about a metro employee violating the same rule metro employees ask riders to respect. The tweeter is Arab American and the metro employee she complained about is a black woman. Now her publisher and book distributor are cancelling her novel's publication as a result. (See Post article below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/11/dc-pundit-shamed-metro-worker-eating-train-now-her-book-deal-is-jeopardy/?utm_term=.804898e5dbb8).

So, I agree her tweet was unnecessary and thoughtless: metro employees are low wage workers who get very short breaks, and this poor metro employee could now get fired.

But a) Metro does enforce its no eating policy, often in absurd and horrible ways, often against people of color, so is it really inherently horrendous for the tweeting author to highlight that this is a bit hypocritical? (see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?utm_term=.fe6adc99091b)

And b) If she had instead posted a photo of a uniformed DC cop breaking a law that other people go to jail for breaking (maybe having an open container of alcohol, or peeing in an alley), would everyone be calling her a racist if the cop in her photo was African America - as opposed to thanking her for highlighting police hypocrisy?

And c) Her book was cancelled, WTF? Even if you think her tweet was completely thoughtless, should this really lead to her book being nixed?

I consider myself very much on the left and I think both commuters and metro employees should be able to eat on the metro without fear of arrest or discipline, and I also think low wage workers get a shitty deal, and low wage African American female workers get a particularly shitty deal. But I also think it's frightening that this tweeter's NOVEL has been cancelled because of a tweet that was, at worst, thoughtless, for which she has already apologized.

Am I missing something?

While we don’t want to jump on the race bandwagon, many Arabs are racist. They will often be obsequious to white people but dismissive or outright rude to black people. Is this writer racist? I don’t know. Would she have taken a picture of a white employee eating? I don’t know the answer to that either. I do have an issue with her publishing the employee’s picture. Regardless of the fact that she was breaking the rules, she doesn’t deserve to be shamed publicly. Metro has a system in place for complaints, and she should have gone that route.

See the bolded statement. That one gross generalization about an entire group negates the rest of your entire post. Too bad, because you had a point there when you say she should have filed a complaint rather than posting online. But blathering that "many Arabs are racist" is so vastly general and nasty that it paints you pretty poorly. Fill in any other group for "Arabs" there and it's an equally stupid generalization, and those kinds of blanket statements only make today's antagonistic environment worse, never better.

I’ve lived in the Middle East for 11 years, so I know a little more than you, and this is not some gross generalization. I’ve witnessed it, black Arabs have told me about their experiences, and other Arabs have discussed it with me. This is not ‘blathering’ but something that actually happens. I did not say all Arabs; I said many.

What my Arab friends tell me is that American blacks are the most racist people they have met in their lives.

Not American whites or Latinos. Blacks.

Maybe your friends aren’t hiding their racism very well.

DP. I believe we see colorist attitudes and racism everywhere but I also think it’s a total lie to say that in some pockets, on an individual level, that African-Americans don’t engage in hideous behavior against others on the basis of race. Come on.

NT was absolutely in the wrong and anyone who wants someone disciplined for truly petty BS is a person I don’t want to know. All of that can be true without her getting the brunt of the She’s a racist! overreaction. I think she’d have done the same tweet-shaming of a white male WMATA employee.

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Anonymous wrote:I love the metro employee for this:

"You worry about yourself."

That is perfect advice.

So that’s an acceptable thing to say when you are caught doing something wrong? I’m so going to use that next time I get pulled over for something.

Cop: “ma’am, I pulled you over because you were doing 75 in a 55mph zone.”

Me: “worry about yourself.”

PP would LOVE me. And DCUM would be so proud!

That would be the cop’s job.

Questioning the metro worker eating and posting that photo was not Metro Mandy’s job.

So what you are saying is that unless it it your job, no one can call out another person for doing something wrong? So if one of the off leash morons in my neighborhood has his dog off leash, because I’m not Animal control I can’t tell him it’s illegal to have your dog off leash in our county, and then request him to leash his dog, because it’s NOT MY JOB TO DO THAT?

This is priceless.

It’s not your job! MYOB. Why is that a hard concept to grasp?! You call the person whose job it actually is to handle those situations. He’s not going to put a leash on his dog bc you decided to confront him. You are no one and have no authority. If you want to patrol ppl and tell them what is illegal or not then you are setting yourself up. Ppl have actually gotten killed for what you think is your right to do.