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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

Nobody ruined her book deal. Her publisher independently pulled the book after they saw her tweets. Their statement about it is what made the whole thing get noticed. [/quote]

No, they pulled it after the saw the tweetstorm and getting tagged by thousands of people.

Another feat of hypocrisy.[/quote]

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