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

[Anonymous]

WTF is a blue check mark?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF is a blue check mark?

It shows that Twitter says that it has verified that your Twitter account is you.

Twitter accounts with blue check marks include @billnye, @iamcardib, and @realdonaldtrump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who made her the Metro police?

What you’re missing is that black people cannot and do not do this stuff—acting as though they are the enforcement unit for shared public space. It’s entitled behavior.

Metro in our society at large made her the metro police. See something say something, right? That phrase been pounded into our heads since 911 but suddenly you’re not supposed to point out wrong doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who made her the Metro police?

What you’re missing is that black people cannot and do not do this stuff—acting as though they are the enforcement unit for shared public space. It’s entitled behavior.

Metro in our society at large made her the metro police. See something say something, right? That phrase been pounded into our heads since 911 but suddenly you’re not supposed to point out wrong doing?

About food? And tweeting it to thousands of people? That's a stretch.

[Anonymous]

Not just verification

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/twitter-our-blue-check-marks-arent-just-about-verification/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who made her the Metro police?

What you’re missing is that black people cannot and do not do this stuff—acting as though they are the enforcement unit for shared public space. It’s entitled behavior.

Metro in our society at large made her the metro police. See something say something, right? That phrase been pounded into our heads since 911 but suddenly you’re not supposed to point out wrong doing?

Doing so might subject the person who says something to potential social ostracism and/or litigation, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who made her the Metro police?

What you’re missing is that black people cannot and do not do this stuff—acting as though they are the enforcement unit for shared public space. It’s entitled behavior.

Metro in our society at large made her the metro police. See something say something, right? That phrase been pounded into our heads since 911 but suddenly you’re not supposed to point out wrong doing?

+1

The person calling out the bad behavior is not the entitled one. Quite the opposite.

[Anonymous]

When are we going to get Lunching Loretta’s name?

[Anonymous]

She should take it and run with it create a whole social media persona from it...
Tweet pics of librarians eating granola bars while sitting at the library front desk and tweet pics of cops double parking and videos of them speeding and not properly signaling before a turn.
She could become a social media sensation.

[Anonymous]

Why don't metro eaters EVER put their garbage in the trash?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She should take it and run with it create a whole social media persona from it...
Tweet pics of librarians eating granola bars while sitting at the library front desk and tweet pics of cops double parking and videos of them speeding and not properly signaling before a turn.
She could become a social media sensation.

see now you're thinking - so she f*cked up her platform as an ally to POC. she can re-brand as school marm to the masses. if you're going to be a becky, be a f*cking becky!

[Anonymous]

31 pages about this? I didn't read the whole thread (because c'mon...no), but I sure hope someone pointed out that a 20 minute break to eat between assignments is nuts, and if you are all dead set about defending this call-out that then got called out, you are some really awful humans who could stand a real problem.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually know this woman, she's not a racist, conflating her stupid tweet with racism is ridiculous. Calling out people is what she does. Why she did it this time, in this fashion, I'm not sure. BUT, she's not a racist.

I don't think she is I just think she's an idiot.

This seemed more classist to me than racist, but I think it also fits in with the overall issue of black people being monitored and policed in a different way from everyone else. I would imagine if NT had done this in the years before BBQ Becky and all those others, it would have been taken differently than it is now.

Bad judgment for a supposed communications expert. But I think it's also worth remembering that this could happen to any of us, who speak without thinking sometimes.

The OP here (op of the comment not thread). Possibly, but knowing her, I can tell you if this was an old white man WMATA employee, she'd have made the same tweet. It wasn't class or race based. Part of her brand is calling out hypocrisy when she sees it. In this case, she made several really bad mistakes. But who of us doesn't. And while I completely understand the hypocrisy sentiment, I'd never have posted the woman's picture. But to drag her through the mud and ask for her head was WAY way crazy of a reaction. I'm a liberal and consider myself both woke and an ally, and I think the reaction to this has been hysterical and vindictive. And Unsuckmetro is trash. I didn't realize this till this whole debacle happened.

This is PP again (and thank you for being able to talk about the nuances about this and not engaging in hysterics in either direction). I think the thing is that she didn't need to have racist or classist intent for it to come across as racist and/or classist. It just looks real bad when a blue check mark author on Twitter tweets out a photo of a black woman in a uniform, with what sounds like a petty complaint - that the woman didn't obsequiously respond to the author's complaint that she should not be eating on the Metro. I haven't quite parsed through my thoughts about this (outside of that it was obviously just shooting herself in the foot, to tweet this, given that she was looking to be embraced by exactly the people who were clearly going to be offended by this whole thing).

Maybe it just seemed dickish more than anything? Let's even throw a bone to the BBQ Beckys here - say she was right that this person was flagrantly violating important rules and then was rude to boot. It's still dickish to decide that THIS is the thing you want to ruin someone's day over.

What is her personality usually like? Is she petty? Is she overall kind but quick to jump down someone's throat if she thinks they've done wrong? Was she just in a bad mood?

Just reading some of the coverage - it doesn't sound like her book was canceled, just delayed. If I were her I would start immediately trying to rehabilitate my image.

PP again. I honestly haven't fully processed how I feel either. What she did was pretty dickish and petty imo, but I am convinced her intent wasn't to harm the woman in the photo. I think she was possibly annoyed and in the heat of the moment expressed to what she thought would be a supportive audience. I don't know what her frame of mind was, if it came from having a bad morning without sleep or because she was feeling uppity, but I would like to think that based on my knowledge of her, her intent wasn't to harm the wmata employee. She's not that type of person.

Whether her book is published or not is the last of her concerns now, imo. I honestly feel like her whole world is ruined. Her kids won't be able to go to school without being noticed and recognized and possibly judged, her paycheck is in jeopardy. Yes, she put the WMATA employee's paycheck in jeopardy too, but unintentionally. I really think she did the wrong thing with that tweet, but not wrong enough to wish her whole life's destruction like some gleeful posters about karma shared. The mob went after NT with everything it has, trying to ruin her completely. If you google her, all the crap comes up. This is not some family with a 1.5 million dollar townhouse in the heart of DC, and the mom just decided to write a book. They went after her hard, and I worry about how this will impact her whole life. I find posters who only cared about the WMATA employee's check, and only stood by her because of race to be hypocritical. I'm not white btw. I'm tired of people ganging up on the other. If the issue with the tweet was that it adds to the body of media policing women of color, then we shouldn't join the ranks of some gang, doing the same exact thing to someone else, under the guise of justice.

I really like your comment and agree without knowing NT. She was eviscerated on GoodReads by people who obviously never read an ARC of her book -
the scarily immature and utterly vicious self-anointed “book reviewers” easily beat the Twitter mob. I’m not even approaching the hypocrisy of “what intersectionality? She’s pale!” crazypants.’ Some can’t be reached or reasoned with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should take it and run with it create a whole social media persona from it...
Tweet pics of librarians eating granola bars while sitting at the library front desk and tweet pics of cops double parking and videos of them speeding and not properly signaling before a turn.
She could become a social media sensation.

see now you're thinking - so she f*cked up her platform as an ally to POC. she can re-brand as school marm to the masses. if you're going to be a becky, be a f*cking becky!

Exactly she could tweet pics of mail carriers briefly parking in front of hydrants and tweet pics of hundreds of employees outside dozens of offices downtown smoking within 100 feet of entrances. She could single handedly get thousands of people reprimanded or potentially get them fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She should take it and run with it create a whole social media persona from it...
Tweet pics of librarians eating granola bars while sitting at the library front desk and tweet pics of cops double parking and videos of them speeding and not properly signaling before a turn.
She could become a social media sensation.

see now you're thinking - so she f*cked up her platform as an ally to POC. she can re-brand as school marm to the masses. if you're going to be a becky, be a f*cking becky!

Exactly she could tweet pics of mail carriers briefly parking in front of hydrants and tweet pics of hundreds of employees outside dozens of offices downtown smoking within 100 feet of entrances. She could single handedly get thousands of people reprimanded or potentially get them fired.

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