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

[Anonymous]

I think it's wrong to police black people for living while black. I also think it's sad if we can't call out bad behavior if the person committing it is a minority. While it was foolish to use social media the way the author did, she should not be vilified to this degree, lose books deals, etc. Over reaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these people must not be old enough to remember the days when Metro cops would cite and/or arrest people for eating on Metro. Remember the girl arrested for eating fries? In that context, seeing a Metro worker eating and then defensively telling people to mind their own business would have triggered a lot of people. It just represents the lack of care that many Metro employees have for the customers and for the system. If you've lived here a long time, you might just be done with all of that. Plus some of us are rule followers and we're sick of watching the breakers take advantage. How many of us have had to throw out food or drink on the way into the station?

Every time I read about this story I think of the little girl eating french fries. I completely agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Well, they've now changed the rules because enforcement us too hard/out style. I cant believe how the woke hipsters have discovered our city, and are doing their best to turn it into a trashheap. Look what we have to look forward to... a trashheap of vermin and mayhem like NY. Well, have fun with your "green commute" hipsters. I no longer ride metro. Such a shame.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/05/13/disgusting-subway-car/

[Anonymous]

This isn't policing while black. It's policing while doing something wrong. As unsuck said "woke Twitter is the worst Twitter."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't policing while black. It's policing while doing something wrong. As unsuck said "woke Twitter is the worst Twitter."

Unsuck has always been against metro, its unions, and transit proponents in general.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/13/what-happened-to-unsuck-dc-metro/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these people must not be old enough to remember the days when Metro cops would cite and/or arrest people for eating on Metro. Remember the girl arrested for eating fries? In that context, seeing a Metro worker eating and then defensively telling people to mind their own business would have triggered a lot of people. It just represents the lack of care that many Metro employees have for the customers and for the system. If you've lived here a long time, you might just be done with all of that. Plus some of us are rule followers and we're sick of watching the breakers take advantage. How many of us have had to throw out food or drink on the way into the station?

+1.

It's like the criminals have taken over the city.

+2

And the PC police/WOKE people will defend them at all costs.

See: Brianne Nadeau and the hot mess that is Columbia Heights.

+3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't policing while black. It's policing while doing something wrong. As unsuck said "woke Twitter is the worst Twitter."

Unsuck has always been against metro, its unions, and transit proponents in general.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/13/what-happened-to-unsuck-dc-metro/

Unsuck seems to be very #smart, given what we're just seeing.

[Anonymous]

Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

I agree. I don't use twitter and I don't embarrass people publicly. That said, an employee wearing a WMATA uniform needs to recognize that they're representing WMATA and follow its rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

The thing happened at 9 am, what lunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

The thing happened at 9 am, what lunch?

Breakfast, whatever.

I don't like people posting photos of my kids or others on social media----so I sure as hell don't like the idea of outing strangers and publicly vilifying them. That takes a special kind of entitled, c*nt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

I think almost everyone who wants to eat on public transit has some sort of reason or excuse, otherwise they wouldn’t feel the need or desire to do it. That’s what creates an entitlement attitude - people feel entitled to speed because THEY are running late or have other things to do, they feel entitled to talk during performances because THEY have something they want to say, they think they can throw a piece of their trash on the ground or leave it on a bench because they JUST have one piece, etc. It’s a very slippery slope when people start believing that the rules don’t apply to them.

And that’s before we even start considering the implications of one race breaking rules and people never being allowed to call them out on it because they’re untouchable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

The thing happened at 9 am, what lunch?

Breakfast, whatever.

I don't like people posting photos of my kids or others on social media----so I sure as hell don't like the idea of outing strangers and publicly vilifying them. That takes a special kind of entitled, c*nt.

You are truly crazy.

We are talking about an ADULT on DUTY and in UNIFORM while BREAKING the law.

Not a kid, or a "stranger."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public outings are *ssholish behavior, even if your own sh*t don't stink. You are just asking for Karma to come bite you.

When I read that the employee had to get to another train (due to malfunction on another train) and had no time for lunch I had sympathy for her.

I don't tend to get up in other people's business and I've never been a fan of social media. This just confirms my feelings on it. I also never post pictures of strangers and comment on them---that's just wrong.

The thing happened at 9 am, what lunch?

Breakfast, whatever.

I don't like people posting photos of my kids or others on social media----so I sure as hell don't like the idea of outing strangers and publicly vilifying them. That takes a special kind of entitled, c*nt.

I said it before and I’ll say it again - the entitles c*nt isn’t the one calling the person out. It’s the one doing something wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Rules are for all of us indeed. There is a societal rule against social media bullying. She tried to bully the metro employee for a petty wrongdoing. She got bullied ten fold.

She could have posted all the information without the picture, and things would have been much different. Metro could have reached out to her for the picture if it was interested. Instead she exposed the employee for all to see. She got the same. I feel bad for both women. However, I think the writer deserves the public mess more than the metro employee did. She set out to socially humiliate someone else(she is a big fat liar if she claims she never knew that she was publicly humiliating the metro employee), and she ended up getting even worse public scrutiny. He who lives by the sword...