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

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused about a couple of things. How is a Jordanian a WOC? Is it because she is an immigrant? Why do all the articles and quoted academics say she was "policing a black woman's body" when she reported a metro woman eating on the train?

Well, the woman of color bit seems subjective. I’m white and she’s definitely got more flava than me...
She’s certainly not a wasp.

The “policing black woman’s body” thing is meaningless.

Americans are crazy (and deeply racist, especially in DC)

You haven't seen true racism if you think D.C. is racist. Try going to Mississippi or St. Louis or the wrong side of L.A.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think she's getting some $13 million over this I've got a bridge to sell you

If you think the publisher is going to end up owing nothing or little I've got a bridge to sell you.

You just want the publisher to owe bc for whatever reason, you think this woman was wronged.

No. For a very specific reason. She was wronged for a very specific reason.
The publisher will likely settle.

And every business or media outlet will stay away from her. Even employers will question whether to hire her. She has been branded as "metro becky" and that's not good.

I know you want this to be true so badly....
But the publisher will settle. She will walk with enough to put this all in the rear view.

I think you overestimate the strength of her case - and overestimate the depth of this outfit's pockets. They are an indie publisher in Los Angeles, not some huge concern. Plus they apparently weren't even her publisher - they'd agreed to distribute the book for her publisher, California Coldblood, which appears to be even smaller.

http://www.californiacoldblood.com/

But I'm sure you're right that she'll support her family on the settlement for the foreseeable future. At least take them out for breakfast on whatever she gets.

Even crazier that a random distributor would issue a press release (falsely) attacking an author published by someone else.

Let them pay.

I hope the author continues to pay for stupidity. Hopefully this lawsuit will continue to ruin her.

Interesting. Trump is taped bragging about grabbing women's puss**** and has 16 sexual assault allegations against him. Yet, he is POTUS and a young woman who pointed out that a Metro employee wearing a metro uniform was breaking the rule that Metro has posted everywhere about not eating on the subway is losing her job and her sanity as people attack her.

I didn’t vote for Trump. Maybe you did. Either way, these are two separate issues. Learn to stay on topic.

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Pls stay in your bubble. You have absolutely no idea what an actual injustice is.

And you do? You know injustice that somehow other people do not? My, fancy that. I wonder who's the one that lives in the real bubble?

Still you.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the WaPo article. My conclusion is that she chose to make a big stink on social media rather than doing the most expedient thing, which would have been to contact WMATA directly to make a complaint. I am sure she thought the publicity would help her sell her book. Well, she wanted attention and she got attention. Then it sounds like she became a huge drama queen when the attention didn't go the way she thought it would, and so she started with her suicide threats and rushing out of the country. I think she got exactly what she deserved for her poor behavior choices. I just hope her bad acts don't cause lasting financial or reputational harm the publisher and distributor.

They didn’t have to chime in. They chose to make the exact same mistake she did. Plenty of room for ruin for all.

No, they were right to call her out and then to distance themselves from her. She sounds like she isn't very stable and is prone to making irrational decisions. If I were a small publisher or distributor, I would want to cut the connections, too.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the WaPo article. My conclusion is that she chose to make a big stink on social media rather than doing the most expedient thing, which would have been to contact WMATA directly to make a complaint. I am sure she thought the publicity would help her sell her book. Well, she wanted attention and she got attention. Then it sounds like she became a huge drama queen when the attention didn't go the way she thought it would, and so she started with her suicide threats and rushing out of the country. I think she got exactly what she deserved for her poor behavior choices. I just hope her bad acts don't cause lasting financial or reputational harm the publisher and distributor.

They didn’t have to chime in. They chose to make the exact same mistake she did. Plenty of room for ruin for all.

No, they were right to call her out and then to distance themselves from her. She sounds like she isn't very stable and is prone to making irrational decisions. If I were a small publisher or distributor, I would want to cut the connections, too.

Uh huh... they didn’t just “distance” themselves. They publicly shamed her and called her a racist. They made a very irrational decision. It is going to cost them.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused about a couple of things. How is a Jordanian a WOC? Is it because she is an immigrant? Why do all the articles and quoted academics say she was "policing a black woman's body" when she reported a metro woman eating on the train?

Well, the woman of color bit seems subjective. I’m white and she’s definitely got more flava than me...
She’s certainly not a wasp.

The “policing black woman’s body” thing is meaningless.

Americans are crazy (and deeply racist, especially in DC)

You haven't seen true racism if you think D.C. is racist. Try going to Mississippi or St. Louis or the wrong side of L.A.

Have you ever been to Mississippi?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused about a couple of things. How is a Jordanian a WOC? Is it because she is an immigrant? Why do all the articles and quoted academics say she was "policing a black woman's body" when she reported a metro woman eating on the train?

Well, the woman of color bit seems subjective. I’m white and she’s definitely got more flava than me...
She’s certainly not a wasp.

The “policing black woman’s body” thing is meaningless.

Americans are crazy (and deeply racist, especially in DC)

You haven't seen true racism if you think D.C. is racist. Try going to Mississippi or St. Louis or the wrong side of L.A.

Whoa. Neither of you have been abroad if you think that America is deeply racist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/?utm_term=.10b6cee0d85b

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused about a couple of things. How is a Jordanian a WOC? Is it because she is an immigrant? Why do all the articles and quoted academics say she was "policing a black woman's body" when she reported a metro woman eating on the train?

Well, the woman of color bit seems subjective. I’m white and she’s definitely got more flava than me...
She’s certainly not a wasp.

The “policing black woman’s body” thing is meaningless.

Americans are crazy (and deeply racist, especially in DC)

You haven't seen true racism if you think D.C. is racist. Try going to Mississippi or St. Louis or the wrong side of L.A.

What I see here against immigrants, Hispanics and Asians is more than enough, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Natasha Tynes is on social media getting into all kinds of fights.



For a media professional she’s not very smart - did the WB fire her or no?

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1220078252221321216

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People should stay off social media

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She also cancelled her lawsuit against the publisher because she couldn’t afford it. To those who thought the publisher was wrong for cancelling her book - she didn’t get a DIME out of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Natasha Tynes is on social media getting into all kinds of fights.



For a media professional she’s not very smart - did the WB fire her or no?

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1220078252221321216

Looks like Roxane Gay is also on social media getting into all kinds of fights. Defending cancel culture.

Still does not alter facts: Uniformed employee violated her own employer's rules in front of customers. Yeah, the employee had too little time to eat in the work day. That is a very real problem which WMATA should address as a workplace issue. Have they? I doubt it, because the story became only about cancelling and punishing the customer, not about why an employee would need to eat on Metro because of Metro's employee scheduling problems.

As always, the bigger picture got lost. So much easier to make it all about this one rider and just cancel her.

Are Gay and others advocating for Metro workers with their employer? Doubtful.

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Anonymous wrote:Natasha Tynes is on social media getting into all kinds of fights.



For a media professional she’s not very smart - did the WB fire her or no?

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1220078252221321216

Looks like Roxane Gay is also on social media getting into all kinds of fights. Defending cancel culture.

Still does not alter facts: Uniformed employee violated her own employer's rules in front of customers. Yeah, the employee had too little time to eat in the work day. That is a very real problem which WMATA should address as a workplace issue. Have they? I doubt it, because the story became only about cancelling and punishing the customer, not about why an employee would need to eat on Metro because of Metro's employee scheduling problems.

As always, the bigger picture got lost. So much easier to make it all about this one rider and just cancel her.

Are Gay and others advocating for Metro workers with their employer? Doubtful.

Roxanne Gay is a multi-New York Times bestselling and highly successful author. Natasha Tynes is a World Bank employee (if she still has a job) who is supposed to be a capable communications professional representing her employer online.

Looks like she’s doing a terrible job at it.

[Anonymous]

This is what is wrong with the US. Total loss of common sense. The woman taking a picture was not wrong; she could have looked the other way but she did not deserve all this.

[Anonymous]

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.

I SO agree.
It also gives certain people an idea that no matter what they do, everyone will be too chicken to call them out on it!