Is it racist ?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48257825

Woman reports staff member eating on train and telling her to "mind herself" where people are explicitly forbidden from eating

Woman loses book deal because staff member happens to be black and everyone cries racism

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Pretty crap way to lose your future because you complained about a rude member of staff breaking rules you're not allowed to break
 
Caracus2k said:
Given that the 'target' was an employee I think it's quite a stretch to claim without further information that you could attribute racial animus or discrimination here other than to the people who jump straight to must be racist because black person...
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Also the fact the person doing the reporting of the rude staff member is a minority, being Jordanian
 
cheesyboy said:
'Rules' don't mean you're not in the wrong on a human level.
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The question is "Is it racist?" not "Is it moral?"

Beside the employee was rude telling her to mind her own business when challenged, if the woman felt the need to report the employee then that's her choice, it doesn't make it racist though which is the whole reason she's lost her book deal
 
cheesyboy said:
So?

We were talking about the busybody woman's actions, not the employee. Do keep up.
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Yes, the employees actions caused the customers actions

There isn't a right or wrong in all of this, certainly not enough to cause the woman to lose her book deal or is everyone supposed to lose their jobs now when they report people for breaking rules (and laws?) ?
 
cheesyboy said:
No they didn't. The customer had a choice, and chose the bad faith "uphold the rules" option. Publicly. In their own name. When their name is their brand.

She knew the employee would probably lose her job. For eating lunch on public transport. Losing her own book deal seems actually quite proportionate.
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Except she's only lost her book deal because people cried racist, not because she reported a staff member for breaking rules and being rude :rolleyes:
 
cheesyboy said:
Not that I agree (she lost it because of the furore, not because of racism), but so what?

If losing the book deal was proportionate (you've not argued that point), does it matter the mechanism?
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How is it proportionate ? She wasn't breaking any rules or telling customers to mind their own business

It was the staff member doing that and they don't sound like very good staff if they ignore rules and tell customers to politely eff off

Not mentioning the fact that nobody actually gives a **** she was reporting the staff member, they only care because the staff member was black

Now where's the morality in only caring due to skin colour ? ;)
 
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