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No, I do not think anyone should eat on the underground public transport in a city full of rats.

This author was not in the wrong in calling an employee out.

I do not know the reason for the publication cancellation, but if the tweet is really the reason, then it's deplorable. And really weird.

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If the employee was a White man then the author would have been lauded.  I think the author was correct in tweeting this as a metro customer.   She got dinged because the employee was a black female.

If using social media was overreaction, then so was publishing it in WaPo.

What did the Black employee or Metro lose? Nothing.  What did the whistleblower lose - quite a lot.   She should sue the Metro and her publisher. [/quote]

Good luck to her.  In this day and age hell she could end up with her own reality show as a result of all this but I bet you one thing, she'll think twice before she tweets again.[/quote]

DP. This whole debacle illustrates why some of us are glad we're not and never were on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Originally I wasn't on them because I don't need to have a public bulletin board about my life and can use other ways to tell actual friends what's going on. Now I'm glad I was such a stick in the mud, because increasingly anything on these forums can end up attracting the attention of individual nuts or of the mob (right-wing mob or PC mob--take your pick). And don't think that privacy settings will always protect you if you've ever allowed even a few public posts. [/quote]

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