The 2nd Commandment of SJW: Thou shalt not hold the Diverse to account, for they are innocent of evil and devoid of all responsibility for their actions. Do not violate it, lest you be discredited, disemployed, disavowed, deplatformed, and depublished.
Jordanian-American journalist and writer Natasha Tynes faced Twitter wrath after she alerted the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to a black woman in a Metro uniform eating on a train presumably on her way to work. Tynes, who has since deleted her tweet, reportedly wrote: “I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train. This is unacceptable. Hope @wmata responds.”
“When I asked the employee about this, her response was, ‘worry about yourself,’” Tynes said.
It did not take long for WMATA to respond. The transit authority asked Tynes to provide the exact time and location of her encounter and thanked her for helping to “make sure all Metro employees are held accountable.”
But that was only the beginning of the story, as Twitter erupted with outraged posts accusing Tynes of being a snitch. The backlash mostly focused on the race and gender of the employee, with many calling out Tynes for contributing to the oppression of women of color.
Shortly afterwards, Tynes locked her account – but the Twitter evisceration was not the end of the story for her. Rare Birds, the publishing house that was supposed to distribute Tynes’ novel, said it considers the author’s behavior “horrible” and has “no desire to be involved with anyone who thinks that it’s acceptable to jeopardize a person’s safety and employment in this way.”
In a statement on Friday, her publisher, California Coldblood, said it was discussing “appropriate next steps” with their distributor. With the backlash showing no signs of waning on Saturday, the company announced that it was “halting all shipments from the warehouse, and postponing the book’s publication date” while working on the “next steps to officially cancel the book’s publication.”
The 1st Commandment of SJW, of course is this: The Narrative is the truth and the reality. Thou shalt have no other truths before it.