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

[Anonymous]

Stop announcing your business and other folks business to the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Absolutely this. It is like we have become a nation of teenagers. You know why Switzerland is really effing nice? Because everyone follows the rules to make it so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Absolutely this. It is like we have become a nation of teenagers. You know why Switzerland is really effing nice? Because everyone follows the rules to make it so.

Grab your t-shirt and go.

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of a time one weekday morning when I was drinking my coffee on Metro, going to work, and this guy said "Excuse me! There's no eating or drinking on Metro."

Lol. DC - where hall monitors go when they grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Stop announcing your business and other folks business to the world.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think NT was targeting the worker because of their race, but I do think the online mob is targeting NT because she is a woman. Specifically a “white” woman.

NT is not a white woman.

This whole thing is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think NT was targeting the worker because of their race, but I do think the online mob is targeting NT because she is a woman. Specifically a “white” woman.

NT is not a white woman.

This whole thing is ridiculous.

+1

[Anonymous]

It's ridiculous and a sad sign of the times that the whistleblower should be shamed and punished to such an extreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think NT was targeting the worker because of their race, but I do think the online mob is targeting NT because she is a woman. Specifically a “white” woman.

NT is not a white woman.

This whole thing is ridiculous.

+1

Read this thread. She apparently isn’t dark enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It's ridiculous and a sad sign of the times that the whistleblower should be shamed and punished to such an extreme.

Whistleblower by butt. She’s no Woodward and the crazy thing is this came out due to her own actions and social media account. No one secretly taped an expose of her.

[Anonymous]

I keep thinking about this. I think part of the issue here is that NT tweeting about this woman was off brand. NT's brand seems to have been as an advocate for POC - but this tweet seemed very much like a BBQ Becky thing to have done.

We can argue all day about whether BBQ Becky was right or not - I think not, many here obviously disagree - but I think we can agree that if Becky's public image was based on being an ally or advocate to POC, then the reaction to tattling or calling the police would, and should, be especially swift.

Basically: Don't profit off your ally status and then do something like this.

I get this. I am a writer. I am pretty careful not to say or do things publicly/on social media that would compromise my "brand" as a writer. I know if I were seen in that way, it would destroy an image that I rely on. (Luckily I don't often feel the urge to do things that would be compromising - I imagine it's more of a struggle if you brand yourself as an ally but you also really want to get that uppity rule breaker in trouble.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Absolutely this. It is like we have become a nation of teenagers. You know why Switzerland is really effing nice? Because everyone follows the rules to make it so.

Agree. It is called social capital. When people don’t invest in it, the community goes to hell.

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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.

So when people point out the rules you're breaking, they are trying to RUIN YOUR LIFE? Aren't you a tad dramatic? She wasn't trying to get anyone fired and it's a wild overstatement to say she knew what her actions would result in.

If you think only morally perfect people should be allowed to generate creative output, I assume you've purged all records of Michael Jackson from your library. have you?

I don't think there's a question of her ability to generate creative output. But that doesn't mean a publisher or distributor has to sell it, as demonstrated by the decision to cancel the publication of the book in question.

She's welcome to seek out other avenues to publish the book. Or put her head down, stop using social media as a whipping post and be thankful she can at least walk into her job this morning and collect a paycheck.

A paycheck she wanted to deny this other woman.

Right. Dozens of black rappers with prison records continue to sell their stuff so clearly the sins of the world don't bar one from publication and distribution within the black community. Neither is a history of child abuse (cough Michael Jackson cough). But hey, Natasha Tynes. Where does the red line go exactly?

You have no evidence she wanted the woman to be fired. That's your projection, same as the racist agenda attributed to her postfactum.

What?? I don't know why you're referencing other people who have either served their time or were cleared in a court of justice.

Natasha Tynes got what she was asking for. She thought that the woman would at least be disciplined (otherwise why include her face and the train line/train identifiers) but I guarantee firing was on her mind. Mainly because the woman was being smart and told her to 'mind her business'.

Guess she should have listened because now her business is in flames.

Anyone who enjoys seeing anyone else's life up in flames is a total a$$hole. Hope Karma doesn't forget you.

Anyone who tries to publicly mock/shame is a total a$$hole. Hope karma doesn’t forget about you. Oops guess it didn’t forget...

What NT did was wrong, but what your online mobsters did was much, much worse. This is not the same as crazy Betty who denied a black person entry into their own building. It's not racially-motivated. It was entitled and petty, but to turn her into a monster, attack her and her kids online? Target all her platforms? That was some vicious shit.

Why is what happened to her worse? Bc NT lost something and the other woman didn’t? You don’t get to publicly mock/shame someone and walk away. She tried to ruin someone’s life and privacy. She brought it all on herself. No one forced her to post on Twitter. She wanted attention and she got it. Next time she will either mind her own business or contact the company privately like a normal person. While I don’t believe it was racially motivated I do believe she is an awful, petty woman. She is self absorbed and didn’t care what happened to another person. She didn’t care if that woman lost her job or was ridiculed on Twitter. She didn’t care if that woman had her own family who could’ve been targeted when she posted on Twitter. NT is just as bad and vicious.

Nailed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of a time one weekday morning when I was drinking my coffee on Metro, going to work, and this guy said "Excuse me! There's no eating or drinking on Metro."

Lol. DC - where hall monitors go when they grow up.

Should have taken your photo and posted it.

[Anonymous]

Eating in public is just so trashy. Why do it?