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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually know this woman, she's not a racist, conflating her stupid tweet with racism is ridiculous. Calling out people is what she does. Why she did it this time, in this fashion, I'm not sure. BUT, she's not a racist. [/quote]

I don't think she is I just think she's an idiot.[/quote]

This seemed more classist to me than racist, but I think it also fits in with the overall issue of black people being monitored and policed in a different way from everyone else. I would imagine if NT had done this in the years before BBQ Becky and all those others, it would have been taken differently than it is now.

Bad judgment for a supposed communications expert. But I think it's also worth remembering that this could happen to any of us, who speak without thinking sometimes. [/quote]

The OP here (op of the comment not thread). Possibly, but knowing her, I can tell you if this was an old white man WMATA employee, she'd have made the same tweet. It wasn't class or race based. Part of her brand is calling out hypocrisy when she sees it. In this case, she made several really bad mistakes. But who of us doesn't. And while I completely understand the hypocrisy sentiment, I'd never have posted the woman's picture. But to drag her through the mud and ask for her head was WAY way crazy of a reaction. I'm a liberal and consider myself both woke and an ally, and I think the reaction to this has been hysterical and vindictive. And Unsuckmetro is trash. I didn't realize this till this whole debacle happened. [/quote]

Her only mistake was to be brave, and to denounce something that needed to be publicly denounced.[/quote]

Yes, it’s oh so very brave to take someone’s picture without her permission because you’re upset and want your followers to vindicate you. If she really wanted to change things, she could have omitted or deleted her face. [b]This was personal.[/b] Whether the employee was right or wrong is a separate issue.[/quote]

DP. Of course it was personal. If someone tells me to go jump after I point out that they're doing something they're not allowed to do that they've told other people to not do, you can bet I'd be annoyed too. She should have apologized and smiled nicely and at least made up some sort of excuse and said it wasn't something she'd normally do. Or something. The fact is that it *IS* my business if I want to eat on metro and I'm not allowed to do it because I'd get in trouble if a metro employee sees me... and then there's one doing it in front of me who feels immune to the rules.

That arrogant comment quite possibly changed the post from being something with face blurred out to something with face showing.[/quote]

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