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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is DCUM is full of BBQ Becky’s so of course they think this is awful. How many threads have been posted here with people asking if they should call the cops about various non-criminal irritants like music coming from the roofing crew working across the street? I posted last summer about someone at the pool calling the cops TWICE on two boys who said they had left their pool passes at home and everyone here was like “well that seems fine, they can’t swim in our pool without a pass!!!”

DCUM is predominantly middle to upper middle class who’re women who are used to tattling on people who minorly inconvenience or annoy them because they a) would never have to worry over someone else causing them to lose their job for the same and b) don’t know or care what it’s like to have to actually fear interacting with law enforcement. They’re all identifying with the author here who they see as doing nothing wrong and got  her book deal unfairly taken for this. [/quote]

Nope. You still don’t get it. 
I grew up riding the metro from out in fairfax county. It was mostly a bunch of middle class professionals, quietly reading while we rode in. Maybe people had coffee in a thermo. I never remember seeing people eat. 
People were respectful.
This is a culture clash. 
I remember the pool pass post. When I was a kid ( 80’s), if we were asked to go home and get our pass, WE WALKED HOME AND GOT THE PASS. 
We didn’t argue about it, because we didn’t feel entitled to behave that way. 
The is absolutely about entitlement, but not in the way you think.
For the record, I don’t agree with posting the worker’s picture and think a bit of karma came into play. But this isn’t about race. It’s about expectations in public spaces and class.
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What culture clash?[/quote]

Civil, rule abiding and respectful vs not[/quote]

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