Thread: Look, I am just going to put this out there, let the arrows come as they may. I was really disturbed by this video of the woman in the park yesterday. I was disturbed at how she weaponized the race of the man filming, clearly understanding the implications. (cont) https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/1264965252866641920

I was disturbed at how she escalated and changed her story while on the phone with the police, ending in a wildly hysterical over-exaggeration of the situation that she clearly engineered for several purposes I outline in the next tweet.

1. To scare the daylights out of the guy filming
2. To get the police to respond to what she was explaining as a life threatening situation as retribution for the events preceding the filming, and likely because she is racist.

There are probably a lot more problems with her.

I was EQUALLY as disturbed at the way she handled her dog. This dog was CLEARLY in distress. It was ALARMING. You couldn't say that on the tweet, otherwise, it meant you were placing the life of the dog over the life of the man and you were a racist. There was a ton of this:

Go and read the comments. It gets scary. So the outrage about the video grew and grew until someone finally doxxed her and everyone she knows. It didn't stop there. By the end of the day, her employer had responded.

They put her on administrative leave. When I woke up this morning, there were several articles written about the situation, some with her comment. https://twitter.com/FTI_US/status/1265111264335986689

This was the original Facebook post that I saw when I started reading the articles this AM. https://www.facebook.com/671885228/posts/10158742137255229/?d=n Ok, I'm sorry- now I dislike this dude just as much as I dislike this woman. Who DOES THIS?! She is clearly in the wrong, but, so is HE!

Him being in the wrong doesn't erase the fact that she is clearly an entitled, stuck up, virtue signaling, holier than thou, elitist snob. Her being in the wrong doesn't erase the fact that this dude thought it was "OK" to say what is in the photo below..

I mean, IMO, a kindhearted, well meaning person just does NOT act this way!! It's disturbing in and of itself and also exhibits this air of "elitist" behavior. It's scary! He thinks this is perfectly fine, in response to an unleashed dog who is messing with vegetation for birds

So, I read all of these stories, and then sadly read the comments on the posts. The media never mentions her political affiliation, because it doesn't fit their typical mold of trying to attack conservatives- she is a liberal who donated to many D candidates.

But, people in the comments assume she is a Trump supporter. Conservatives really don't act this way. We just don't. We aren't racist, and we care about our animals. So then it starts a political war about how horrible R's are, and how horrible D's are and it just gets ugly.

Then, the woman loses her job. She gets fired. https://twitter.com/FTI_US/status/1265348185201008641?s=20 And this is where I am going to likely diverge from lots of people on both sides, but I think this mob mentality is absolutely terrifying. The FLAMING PITCHFORKS are ALARMING. My goodness.

These are folks who have come now not only for this woman, whose life has been summarily destroyed, but for the company, even after she was fired. Comment after comment after comment:

I have so much to say here. Amy Cooper is probably a really unhappy person generally. She is obviously miserable inside. She obviously doesn't care about others. But what this represents is absolutely terrifying.

Let's talk about a few issues here. People are saying that the guy filming had his put life in jeopardy because he was black and the cops could have shown up and just shot him on the spot without any questions asked. Atypical. That isn't what happens usually.

Not only that, it DIDN'T go down that way anyway. She left, he left, the cops didn't even question anyone. The 911 operator didn't know the guy was filming and that she was lying. For all they knew there was a serious threat. The point is, without the police knowing this (cont)

was a woman lying about the situation, they both left before the cops even GOT THERE, he went home, and put this video on the internet. So spare me the "could'a, would'a, should'a" stuff. Secondly, people are all up in arms that some were concerned (rightly)

about the dog!! There was good reason to be concerned about the dog!! It was being treated like crap. It doesn't mean we value his life less or that we are racist! Anyone implying otherwise is just being disingenuous and looking for something to virtue signal about.

Next, Amy Cooper. Amy Cooper went to Central Park yesterday and didn't follow a leashing rule. She acted like a petulant child, and got caught doing it. She used the race of another human as what SHE PERCEIVED as a weapon. That speaks to her character. Horrible.

Today, Amy Cooper is the most hated woman on the internet. She lost her high paying job. She lost her dog. News agencies are calling her. Her friends and coworkers are being doxxed. She has people calling for her to be jailed and killed.

She is probably really, really unwell today. That bothers me. Actions have consequences, yes- but at some point we need to look in the mirror and wonder if this is all worth it. What she did is reprehensible, but is what he did better? Is what everyone is doing to her (cont)

online OK? Is this the type of world you want to live in? Where the mob comes for everything you have ever worked for, tarnishing your reputation forever, harassing your former employer? NOTHING that company does will be good enough. Does this punishment fit?

I am sorry- the reaction to this is sick. And it is fed by nothing but hatred. I know a lot of people wont agree with me here, but how much better are those of you who have reacted in some of the ways you have, as compared to what this woman did in Central Park?

Does it make you FEEL GOOD to be so hateful towards someone who already clearly has problems? Does this mob mentality not scare you?? I think it is perfectly OK to think the behavior of both of these supposedly grown adults is abhorrent, and still disagree with the online mob.

Each of you on the attack here had better hope and pray it is never you that is on the other end of that lens committing some infraction that someone else doesn't like. It will never end. They will keep coming for more and more. It's hate everywhere. It makes me ill inside.

You can be fine with her getting fired. You can be fine with her losing her job even. But when will this end for Amy Cooper? Maybe I am wrong. This is just how I feel. She isn't a good person, but man oh man is this world brutal. Arrows come on in...

PS: The fact that I was SCARED TO POST this should say everything.. Sigh.