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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]

But again, this is a difference between a regular person and a book author. Authors basically HAVE to be on social media because it's part of your platform for selling books. That means you have to not be a total f*cking idiot on social media, because you're doing it in part for your job. Don't undermine your platform on Twitter just because you are feeling petty about some Metro employee who's doing something you don't like.

That said, if you don't need to be on social media and you feel like the risks are too high, then maybe it is smart to avoid it.[/quote]

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