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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Photography on Metro trains is forbidden.

I would sue Ms. Tynes for “defamation of character” and “invasion of privacy!”

The Metro employee defamed her own character (such as it is) by breaking the law while in uniform). Metro should toss her out on her ass.

Did you read the article? She did NOT break the law

What does “it is unlawful to eat...on Metro” mean exactly?

[Anonymous]

Man sticklers you are all so brave here behind your keyboard. Go ahead - you be the next Metro Millie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her tweet just seemed mean-spirited and vindictive. Yes, the employee was eating on the train, but is it necessary to report her to her boss and try to get her fired? How would that help or serve anyone?

I don’t blame her publishers for declining to associate with someone like that. No one is obligated to publish her work. She should have just sat there and looked at her phone.

Disciplining an employee who is flagrantly flouting the law would be a deterrent to others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Talk about racism and the soft bigotry of low expectations - that it’s somehow unreasonable to expect a black person to obey the law. Wow!

+1.

And not just any person -- an employee, in UNIFORM!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I travel with my 3yo by metro every day and feel guilty about discreetly feeding him snacks, but now plan to just do it in the open. The rules are over.

Total FREE PASS. Keeping little people fed needs no explanation..

Good. Then I’ll expect to see you down on the floor of the train, cleaning up the mess that your child has made. No?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is political correctness run amok. All the woman did is tweet a picture of an employee flouting Metro's own rules. And now the employee is the victim? Ridiculous.

Welcome to cancel culture!!

Let’s cancel all of the self-styled social justice warriors and race apologists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her tweet just seemed mean-spirited and vindictive. Yes, the employee was eating on the train, but is it necessary to report her to her boss and try to get her fired? How would that help or serve anyone?

I don’t blame her publishers for declining to associate with someone like that. No one is obligated to publish her work. She should have just sat there and looked at her phone.

So I take it you have destroyed all your Michael Jackson recordings and change the station when his sound comes on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PSA:
Metro workers are NOT low wage workers. jobs at Metro are great jobs for often low/unskilled workers.

this! isn't the median salary like $80k plus full pension after 25 years? and median of the execs is like $200k?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh but they’ve given the author a nickname

Metro Molly

Metro ought to tell its lawbreaking employee, “Bye, Felicia. And don’t come back to work!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad this happened. A snitch tried to get someone’s job because the woman told her to worry about herself, which she should. This author identifies as a POC when it benefits her but then attacks a black woman by dragging in her boss on Twitter. She got the smoke she wanted m!

So you think identifying as a POC means never criticizing anyone darker than snow?

If black solidarity existed, there would be no black on black crime so let's stop telling this particular fairy tale.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Then Metro should alter their rules so that all passengers who are in similar situations get to eat on Metro if they choose.

From the same article. I assume it includes passengers?

Though the union acknowledged it is against Metro rules to eat on a train or in a station, Hobson’s statement also referenced an email from Metro Transit Police Chief Ron Pavlik sent May 8, ordering officers to “cease and desist from issuing criminal citations in the District of Columbia for fare evasion; eating; drinking; spitting, and playing musical instruments without headphones until further advised.”

So now it’s ok to spit and play music blasters in the Metro?

[Anonymous]

MYOB is just another variation of Don’t Snitch.
There is a reason some communities are nice, and don’t experience much crime.
Sure, what’s the harm using the public park for your family reunion? It’s not a big deal. It’s not hurting anyone.
Why does it matter if a couple of kids use the pool without passes? It doesn’t really matter.
So what if someone eats last night’s lasagne on the metro? It’s not really my concern.
But that’s not true.
We have rules and guidelines for a reason. It’s never just one person. If every Weekend has people partying and trashing the park, it ruins the park for all. If the pool is overrun with unsupervised kids, it ruins the pool for everyone. If everyone eats on the train, it ruins the train for everyone.
Communities with the mantra “worry about yourself” tend to not be the places posters coo over on the real estate forum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is political correctness run amok. All the woman did is tweet a picture of an employee flouting Metro's own rules. And now the employee is the victim? Ridiculous.

Welcome to cancel culture!!

But why did she do it? Is she going around the city taking pictures of everyone who flouts the rules? Maybe she was annoyed about the worker eating, but most normal people (I hope) don’t take pictures of others without permission and then post them online. What did she hope to achieve?

Agree. I don’t care about their race, taking a candid picture of a stranger and posting it on the internet for the whole world to see is awful. I see it all the time in memes, viral fb posts and so on. It’s rude and I’m glad she was fired from her publisher. Enough is enough.

This. Social media shaming is awful, immature and low class. This is why she should lose the book deal.

Diddling little kids is all that and more, yet a Michael Jackson record is sold every day. Help me understand where your red line is drawn about only perfect people being allowed to generate and publish creative output.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that it's entitled behavior. But should her BOOK be cancelled as a result?

She used her minority status to book interviews talking about being marginalized and discriminated against. Yet she called out another minority woman on the train and tagged her employer at the same time. Did she out any of the white commuters regularly drinking starbucks on the train?

The Complicated Reality of a Minority Writer

A writer of color is the label that currently defines my literary persona. Whether I like it or not, that’s who I am in the eyes of many in the writing community. Am I a writer of color? What color exactly?

Born in Amman, Jordan, a fairly homogeneous city where we called ourselves Jordanians, Arabs, I never thought of myself as any color. I’m not white, brown or black. I was what I was. I had to fly thousands of miles to the U.S. to discover my brownness. To describe my skin color as olive, and my eyes as almond. To explain my ethnicity every time I opened my mouth and people heard my accent.

As I embarked on writing They Called Me Wyatt, a novel set between Jordan and the U.S., which explores societal challenges faced by women and what it means to defy your cultural norms, I slowly started to embrace my label as a writer of color.

https://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/damned-if-i-do-damned-if-i-dont-the-complicated-reality-of-a-minority-writer

What a phony hack. I googled her, she's a fair skinned Persian, I'd guess? Since when is that a person of color? I know Italians and Greeks darker complected than her.

[Anonymous]

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White (and white presenting) women invoking authority because they assume they will be taken seriously by virtue of their whiteness (or the way that they present as white) is very much the issue here.

The reason this has blown up, and Tynes should have known this, is that Black men and women have their bodies policed by white strangers from dawn to dusk. So this is stacked on all of those other incidents. It is not identical, but it clearly resonates in the same context.

I see. So you think that if the metro employee in question was white, Tynes should have kept her book deal then?