Twitter’s main character of the day is this white woman, who found herself in a confrontation with a black avid bird-watcher, at the Bramble in NY’s Central Park. I generally strongly caution against internet pile-ons. But while I understand the genesis of this incident is ambiguous, the part where she completely lost my sympathy was first saying "I'm going to tell them an African-American man is threatening my life." What is the most charitable interpretation of that? The novel bit of information she's trying to communicate to him is "I am going to tell the police that a person is threatening me" so the "African-American man" part seems superfluous if it's not carrying any weight. So to me, the only way I make sense of it is to conclude that she's implying "We know cops are more likely to show up in force when the suspect is a black man, do you want to take that chance?"
Bramble-Gate
Bramble-Gate
Bramble-Gate
Twitter’s main character of the day is this white woman, who found herself in a confrontation with a black avid bird-watcher, at the Bramble in NY’s Central Park. I generally strongly caution against internet pile-ons. But while I understand the genesis of this incident is ambiguous, the part where she completely lost my sympathy was first saying "I'm going to tell them an African-American man is threatening my life." What is the most charitable interpretation of that? The novel bit of information she's trying to communicate to him is "I am going to tell the police that a person is threatening me" so the "African-American man" part seems superfluous if it's not carrying any weight. So to me, the only way I make sense of it is to conclude that she's implying "We know cops are more likely to show up in force when the suspect is a black man, do you want to take that chance?"