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

[Anonymous]

I love the metro union quote in the article about non enforcement of rules. I'm going to be destroying some Jersey Mike's on my metro evening commute. Thanks, author lady!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really wanna know what she was eating.

Sh!t.

That's what sh!teaters eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the drama of intersectionality, I guess being Jordanian-American doesn’t carry much weight.

You would be correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There used to be a succinct response to your type of bile, which seems appropriate now:

“America - Love it or leave it!”

And this is why, boys and girls, you can never have a nuanced conversation about America with Americans if you're an immigrant. The only emotion you are allowed to display is unadulterated adoration. I've gone through this hundreds of times and no matter how liberal or sophisticated the crowd, it always comes back to this. Always.

Yes, I always try to start nuanced conversations with lines like "First, fk your dumb ass, racist post"; it always helps to establish rapport first.

I wasn’t trying to have a nuanced conversation. I am beyond sick and tired of all of you self-important, self-professed Middle East experts and your constant racist, condescending generalizations. What I was doing is cussing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:In the drama of intersectionality, I guess being Jordanian-American doesn’t carry much weight.

She would be considered as white.

I thought what she considers herself, how she self identifies, is what she is. She says she is a POC, and so she is.

Another Rachel Dolezal, but dumber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There used to be a succinct response to your type of bile, which seems appropriate now:

“America - Love it or leave it!”

And this is why, boys and girls, you can never have a nuanced conversation about America with Americans if you're an immigrant. The only emotion you are allowed to display is unadulterated adoration. I've gone through this hundreds of times and no matter how liberal or sophisticated the crowd, it always comes back to this. Always.

Yes, I always try to start nuanced conversations with lines like "First, fk your dumb ass, racist post"; it always helps to establish rapport first.

I wasn’t trying to have a nuanced conversation. I am beyond sick and tired of all of you self-important, self-professed Middle East experts and your constant racist, condescending generalizations. What I was doing is cussing.

Then why mention nuanced conversation like you did, right there in your first sentence?
DP

[Anonymous]

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

I was wondering the same thing. They may be tired and busy like the rest of us, but how do we know they are.low paid? That assumption says a lot about our attitude to blue collar work in this country.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone remember when Fawn Hall got a ticket for eating a banana in metro at the height of Iran Contra? It was one more only in DC twist. I would like.metro to enforce rules on fare jumping, eating and have more policing and patrols. I don't think a metro worker eating is a fireable offense but there certainly is an irony there.

[Anonymous]

On the metro, there are theee white people with food/drink in my car (including me).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the metro, there are theee white people with food/drink in my car (including me).

Photo?

[Anonymous]

I don't get the pile-on here. I didn't see the original tweet, just the backlash for shaming a black woman for eating her breakfast. But the tweet was calling out a WMATA worker for violating WMATA rules that have been around for a long time and have been (apparently until recently) enforced by WMATA and mostly respected by passengers.

Is it really off-limits to point that out? I follow some of the Metro criticism accounts like Unsuck Metro and I think it's good that there is a way for the public to point out where the system is failing. Would the backlash here have been as bad if the tweet had tried to anonymize the WMATA employee? And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the pile-on here. I didn't see the original tweet, just the backlash for shaming a black woman for eating her breakfast. But the tweet was calling out a WMATA worker for violating WMATA rules that have been around for a long time and have been (apparently until recently) enforced by WMATA and mostly respected by passengers.

Is it really off-limits to point that out? I follow some of the Metro criticism accounts like Unsuck Metro and I think it's good that there is a way for the public to point out where the system is failing. Would the backlash here have been as bad if the tweet had tried to anonymize the WMATA employee? And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?

Because she tried to ruin another woman's life and get her fired. She knew what her actions would result in by not only tagging a hate account of WMATA (unsuckdcmetro) but also by tagging WMATA - the woman's employer and identifying the train plus train line the woman was on in addition to a very clear photo of her face.

She wanted to publicly mock and vilify the woman in order to get her fired.

Now the rest of twitter is doing the same to her.

I didn't see the tweet about her kids, but I imagine - trying to get an employee fired and getting her book deal canceled pretty much make them even.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the metro, there are theee white people with food/drink in my car (including me).

Good for you. We're all above the law! What's the union going to do now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the pile-on here. I didn't see the original tweet, just the backlash for shaming a black woman for eating her breakfast. But the tweet was calling out a WMATA worker for violating WMATA rules that have been around for a long time and have been (apparently until recently) enforced by WMATA and mostly respected by passengers.

Is it really off-limits to point that out? I follow some of the Metro criticism accounts like Unsuck Metro and I think it's good that there is a way for the public to point out where the system is failing. Would the backlash here have been as bad if the tweet had tried to anonymize the WMATA employee? And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?

Because she tried to ruin another woman's life and get her fired. She knew what her actions would result in by not only tagging a hate account of WMATA (unsuckdcmetro) but also by tagging WMATA - the woman's employer and identifying the train plus train line the woman was on in addition to a very clear photo of her face.

She wanted to publicly mock and vilify the woman in order to get her fired.

Now the rest of twitter is doing the same to her.

I didn't see the tweet about her kids, but I imagine - trying to get an employee fired and getting her book deal canceled pretty much make them even.

No, one was breaking her workplace rules, but didn't care. Union. She knows she won't get fired. Maybe not her, but it is also well documented that they sleep on the job.

Another was called horrible for what any DC hall monitor would have done. Come on all you DC hall monitors, can you not relate? Rules are for all of us. Otherwise it's chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the pile-on here. I didn't see the original tweet, just the backlash for shaming a black woman for eating her breakfast. But the tweet was calling out a WMATA worker for violating WMATA rules that have been around for a long time and have been (apparently until recently) enforced by WMATA and mostly respected by passengers.

Is it really off-limits to point that out? I follow some of the Metro criticism accounts like Unsuck Metro and I think it's good that there is a way for the public to point out where the system is failing. Would the backlash here have been as bad if the tweet had tried to anonymize the WMATA employee? And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?

Nobody ruined her book deal. Her publisher independently pulled the book after they saw her tweets. Their statement about it is what made the whole thing get noticed.