Posted on 05/16/2019 4:50:03 PM PDT by OddLane
Last week, Natasha Tynes complained about a public transit employee eating on a train. Of course, that’s not all she did, or I wouldn’t be writing this installment of the newsletter about her. She also took a picture of that employee with her smartphone, then posted it to Twitter, and tagged the woman’s employers, wanting to know what they intended to do about it. And, for a while, it looked like the Washington, D.C., public transit authority was going to take Tynes’ complaint seriously.
The social media world, however, had other ideas, and by the end of the day, Tynes was not only reviled as a racist, the publishing house that was working with her book publisher announced that it was going to refuse to distribute her novel—and they were recommending that her publisher drop her as well. In fact, her publisher announced that they were postponing her novel, which was supposed to come out next month, and looking into how they could just cancel it outright.
Now, let’s be clear before we go any further into this: Natasha Tynes did a really shitty thing, and she deserves our scorn and opprobrium. That’s… I mean, I gather there are some people out there who dispute this, but they’re wrong. So: No defending Natasha Tynes for attempting to publicly shame a woman and possibly get her fired...
(Excerpt) Read more at ronhogan.substack.com ...
Don’t mess with Black Privilege
Who?
She forgot one of the most important and cherished rules of the last few years: “You RESPECK da queen when you sees her!”
Who?
Somebody who deleted her entire Twitter account.
She bit a piece of the biscuit off and choked on it. Whoops.
Wow. Do I feel cheated. I just read the whole article and at the end realized that the only mention of what actually happened was all up front. Normally I don’t click on blog links. Should have stuck to that.
I hope that Farina learned a valuable lesson.Don’t mess with other people just because you can.
I don’t know or care of the race of either of them.
But why couldn’t she just leave things alone, none of it was hurting her personally, or anyone else.
Maybe she should have kept her opinion to herself instead of broadcasting it world wide on farcebook. Sometimes ones highest and best use is to serve as a warning to others.
You know, there are rules for the “public” that the maker of the rules can avoid. We see this all the time. Quite frankly if I saw a transit worker eating lunch between stops or whatever, hey, that’s part of the gig. I understasnd if all the transit patrons are slurping around and gnoshing in tendies, the joint will become a mess. The drivers and other such employees have a bit of an incentive to keep things clean.
Quite frankly, I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to take a photo of someone and posting it to the world so I can feel better about myself. Then again, I am not a social media type of person.
Play foolish games and win foolish prizes. I have sympathy for the transit worker who is just trying to get through their day. I have no sympathy for busy-bodies...I don’t care about the color or ethnicity of any of the parties, it has no being really....
Being= bearing....then again there is being and nothingness
Rules are for the little people.
There was a time folks led by example - especially those who are paid by the public.
Mr Smith got fired from his CFO job when he returned to the office, losing his $200,000 annual salary and $1 million in stock options.
At last check, he and his wife and four kids are living in an RV and are on food stamps since he can't find anyone to hire him.
When you search that woman’s name in Twitter and see the replies - it’s pretty shocking.
Granted I hate busybodies and trying to get someone fired will
get no support from me. But, people are cheering the fact that this woman’s professional life is finished.
How's that social media strategist gig working out?
Just deserts. If these mental midgets can’t figure out by now the internet and social media are a double edged sword, the y deserve what they get.
“Strategy.” I do not believe that word means what you think it means.
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