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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, let's stipulate that her tweet (for which she has apologized) was [b]unnecessary and thoughtless. Let's even go further and say that her tweet reeked of racial and class entitlement. [/b]

Stipulate all that. But: Why has her book contract been cancelled?

In exactly what way is social justice enhanced by preventing her novel from being published?

That's the kind of sick sh*t that happens in totalitarian societies. Twitter mobs go after you; your friends and colleagues instantly desert you and condemn you; you become a non-person.

This does not advance racial justice. It just adds another injustice on top of the first.[/quote]

I dispute the bolded. People go on social media all the time to complain about service. I have no issue with her tweet.

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Except the woman wasn't in service. She was a fellow rider, probably heading to her early morning shift. [/quote]

Please try to be a little more intelligent: the service is keeping the Metro clean. The employee was not doing her part, that is, she was caught breaking the rule of not eating on the Metro. What's worse, she was in uniform, therefore representing the company (it doesn't matter whether her shift had started or not).
She totally deserves to be called out.

The publisher has stupidly put itself in a weird situation where because it's so afraid of being called racist, it actually punishes the person who complained about rule-breaking, in an effort to defend the rule-breaker. Surreal and nonsensical.
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NP +1

It's actually racist to NOT hold African Americans to the same standard. It's like a public statement/acknowledgement that black people aren't civilized, and just can't help themselves but break the rules and eat and make a mess wherever they want and so let's just try to ignore it. Kind of like how people make excuses for small children.

It's frankly insulting. And it's sad that society has come down this far that literally everything is racist now unless proven otherwise.

It's sad, really.[/quote]

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