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Yes, everyone should follow the rules. This is about how we as a society handle situations where people break the rules. I'm sure you've been pulled over for a traffic violation before. Imagine the best case interaction and the worst case interaction that's still within the bounds of enforcement regulations, and there's a spectrum of everything in-between. The problem people are pointing out is that one privileged group of people statistically get better interactions and another group statistically gets worse interactions.
This ends with a police interaction sure, but I just don't believe a run of the mill MTA worker who was ignoring how he was sitting prior to the complaint is forcing the interaction.
The old lady sure, ignore her. But when the train conductor tells you to sit right, just do it. Don't make it some low paid service workers problem, and force a whole train full of people to stop over it.
That's just a dick move, and I'll die on this hill pointing that out.
P.S No wonder you guys ended up with Trump in power. All sorts of exceptions to egalitarianism over there. No suffering normalcy for you lot. Stupid Americans.
There it is.
Have fun with Trump, and not following the rules because freedom, corruption and mass poverty are the same thing to you guys.
Go wave a flag (star spangled, rainbow, or both) and be for or against woke politics or Trump, anything but follow the fucking rules ... Even the basic ones like not putting your feet on the seats on public transport.
Little wonder your society is collapsing when the basics don't apply because of politics.
You sure do live in a rich imagination. What color is the sky?
What a deranged dipshit
Sure, it's a dick move. People should follow the rules and not be stubborn dicks. The point of the comparison is how we can expect the whole interaction, from the woman being upset to the arrest, to play out more likely one way than the other depending on whether the person being a stubborn dick is black or white.