Anonymous wrote:Poor lady. The twitterverse tried to make her life not worth living just because she pointed out (accurately) a public employee breaking a rule.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2019/06/08/natasha-tynes-sues-rare-bird-its-actions-metro-shaming-scandal/1395567001/

Jordanian-American author Natasha Tynes is suing book publisher Rare Bird Lit. Inc., for more than $13 million in damages, alleging the company defamed her and breached a publishing contract amid a social media shaming scandal in May.

The incident left Tynes essentially stripped of a book deal, placed on leave from her job and hospitalized for multiple conditions, including suicidal thoughts, a lawsuit filed this week in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles alleges.

Jordanian-American author Natasha Tynes is suing book publisher Rare Bird Lit. Inc., for more than $13 million in damages, alleging the company defamed her and breached a publishing contract amid a social media shaming scandal in May.

The incident left Tynes essentially stripped of a book deal, placed on leave from her job and hospitalized for multiple conditions, including suicidal thoughts, a lawsuit filed this week in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles alleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Tynes is suing the publisher for defamation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/06/08/an-author-lost-her-book-deal-after-tweeting-about-metro-worker-shes-suing-million/?utm_term=.c12bd51f6c75

Good for her

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Tynes is suing the publisher for defamation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/06/08/an-author-lost-her-book-deal-after-tweeting-about-metro-worker-shes-suing-million/?utm_term=.c12bd51f6c75

Good for her

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like Tynes is suing the publisher for defamation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/06/08/an-author-lost-her-book-deal-after-tweeting-about-metro-worker-shes-suing-million/?utm_term=.c12bd51f6c75

Good for her

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Tynes is suing the publisher for defamation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/06/08/an-author-lost-her-book-deal-after-tweeting-about-metro-worker-shes-suing-million/?utm_term=.c12bd51f6c75

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Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

NP. You’re an idiot. And where did the poor decision making for AAs generate? When reading was illegal for my great-great grandmother? Was the poor decision making in the gerrymandered districts? The fair housing that was occurring in cost and right to ownership of property? The public investment in education and medical systems for people of color? And that’s just in the US — not even going into the details of the immigrants here who strive to make it.

Everyone didn’t get a fair start in this life, all from the same place on the track when the mark was set to go. People aren’t all poor because of their decisions. Do you know how hard it is to make the jump from the poverty line to lower class? Lower to middle? The bands are HUGE. Don’t be an ass.

Well I actually grew up poor. And believe it or not, there is a way out of poverty, ESPECIALLY in the US.

It starts with finishing school and trying to do the best you can, getting some sort of job as soon as you're legally able and then continuing to work throughout your schooling, following the rules, not getting involved in gangs, not getting pregnant before choosing a partner you actually intend to make a family with, not making stupid decisions that land you in prison or worse. I can promise you that I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs in my life and gotten around on public transport and I've never once eaten a plate of food under a "no eating" sign, let alone told someone to shove it for pointing out that I shouldn't be doing that.

It sucks that some people start on third base and think they hit a home run. I get it. It annoys me too. I'm shocked again and again on this forum when I see how easy some people have it. But I'm so sick to death of people acting like there's just no way out of poverty unless someone buys you everything. And that being poor is somehow always an excuse to break rules. It isn't.

Thanks for answering my question: you’ve always been a dick.

Really? Not pp, but makes sense. Doesn’t matter what I earn or where I have to take my lunch break —I don’t eat food in a contained space where people may be allergic (and where it says not to). I especially don’t break rules as an employee of a company that sets them. I don’t care what race you are (and, I’m sorry to say, I feel if she were white we wouldn’t care). Many of us are lucky to have jobs and work our butts off — your skin color doesn’t give you an excuse to break protocol.

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Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

NP. You’re an idiot. And where did the poor decision making for AAs generate? When reading was illegal for my great-great grandmother? Was the poor decision making in the gerrymandered districts? The fair housing that was occurring in cost and right to ownership of property? The public investment in education and medical systems for people of color? And that’s just in the US — not even going into the details of the immigrants here who strive to make it.

Everyone didn’t get a fair start in this life, all from the same place on the track when the mark was set to go. People aren’t all poor because of their decisions. Do you know how hard it is to make the jump from the poverty line to lower class? Lower to middle? The bands are HUGE. Don’t be an ass.

Well I actually grew up poor. And believe it or not, there is a way out of poverty, ESPECIALLY in the US.

It starts with finishing school and trying to do the best you can, getting some sort of job as soon as you're legally able and then continuing to work throughout your schooling, following the rules, not getting involved in gangs, not getting pregnant before choosing a partner you actually intend to make a family with, not making stupid decisions that land you in prison or worse. I can promise you that I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs in my life and gotten around on public transport and I've never once eaten a plate of food under a "no eating" sign, let alone told someone to shove it for pointing out that I shouldn't be doing that.

It sucks that some people start on third base and think they hit a home run. I get it. It annoys me too. I'm shocked again and again on this forum when I see how easy some people have it. But I'm so sick to death of people acting like there's just no way out of poverty unless someone buys you everything. And that being poor is somehow always an excuse to break rules. It isn't.

Thanks for answering my question: you’ve always been a dick.

Really? Not pp, but makes sense. Doesn’t matter what I earn or where I have to take my lunch break —I don’t eat food in a contained space where people may be allergic (and where it says not to). I especially don’t break rules as an employee of a company that sets them. I don’t care what race you are (and, I’m sorry to say, I feel if she were white we wouldn’t care). Many of us are lucky to have jobs and work our butts off — your skin color doesn’t give you an excuse to break protocol.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time you make one bad decision,
let’s take away YOUR livelihood.

Happens to poor people all the time.

News Flash:
Indeed it often happens to poor people...
of EVERY color.

I agree that there's probably a correlation, but the causation goes the other way. The being poor is a product of poor decision making in the first place. You can't save people from themselves.

NP. You’re an idiot. And where did the poor decision making for AAs generate? When reading was illegal for my great-great grandmother? Was the poor decision making in the gerrymandered districts? The fair housing that was occurring in cost and right to ownership of property? The public investment in education and medical systems for people of color? And that’s just in the US — not even going into the details of the immigrants here who strive to make it.

Everyone didn’t get a fair start in this life, all from the same place on the track when the mark was set to go. People aren’t all poor because of their decisions. Do you know how hard it is to make the jump from the poverty line to lower class? Lower to middle? The bands are HUGE. Don’t be an ass.

Well I actually grew up poor. And believe it or not, there is a way out of poverty, ESPECIALLY in the US.

It starts with finishing school and trying to do the best you can, getting some sort of job as soon as you're legally able and then continuing to work throughout your schooling, following the rules, not getting involved in gangs, not getting pregnant before choosing a partner you actually intend to make a family with, not making stupid decisions that land you in prison or worse. I can promise you that I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs in my life and gotten around on public transport and I've never once eaten a plate of food under a "no eating" sign, let alone told someone to shove it for pointing out that I shouldn't be doing that.

It sucks that some people start on third base and think they hit a home run. I get it. It annoys me too. I'm shocked again and again on this forum when I see how easy some people have it. But I'm so sick to death of people acting like there's just no way out of poverty unless someone buys you everything. And that being poor is somehow always an excuse to break rules. It isn't.

Thanks for answering my question: you’ve always been a dick.

Really? Not pp, but makes sense. Doesn’t matter what I earn or where I have to take my lunch break —I don’t eat food in a contained space where people may be allergic (and where it says not to). I especially don’t break rules as an employee of a company that sets them. I don’t care what race you are (and, I’m sorry to say, I feel if she were white we wouldn’t care). Many of us are lucky to have jobs and work our butts off — your skin color doesn’t give you an excuse to break protocol.

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Anonymous wrote:I love the metro employee for this:

"You worry about yourself."

That is perfect advice.

I love this too. She could have said “F— off,” (I would have), but she handled it gracefully.

Telling someone to mind their own business is not "graceful". If she really thought that she had the right to eat on the train, she should have calmly explained that. But she was defensive, because she knew that she was wrong.

Anonymous wrote:^ R u living in 1985? Is Breakin’ 3: Khokl8 City filming at your metro station?