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To: tejek who wrote (855356)	5/8/2015 6:07:49 PM
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Somethings worse than a dispute over local school taxes:

To: tejek who wrote (855356)	5/8/2015 6:10:25 PM
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Cop Did a Nice Thing When Political Commentator Forgot Her Wallet. She Called Him Racist For It By Victoria Taft (4 hours ago) \| Culture, Nation, Politics Sally Kohn is a hard left pundit on MSNBC. She took to Twitter yesterday to give a shout-out to a D.C. MTA cop for saving her when she forgot her wallet and couldn’t pay for the subway. But she also couldn’t help but impute political and racial motives for the gesture: [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-1" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe]Forgot my wallet. MTA officer let me on subway for free. #classprivilege #whiteprivilege — Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) May 7, 2015 It was the hashtags on her post that got her taken to the Twitter woodshed. She assumed she’d received the favor because of her race and class. Followers let her have it: [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-2" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] @sallykohn Then why didn't you stop him and lecture him about how you should've been stopped and interrogated? You USED your privilege! — Steve in TN (@pavehawk2007) May 7, 2015 [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-3" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] @sallykohn I've seen blacks not get arrested for smoking on the metro and seen whites get ticketed for it. Privilege? — Steven (@ArlingtonSteve) May 7, 2015 [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-4" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] @sallykohn A black woman at the gas station forgot her wallet, and I paid the $32 for her. Oddly, I would have done the same were she white! — Jefferson McIrish (@JeffMcIrish) May 7, 2015 [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-5" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] @sallykohn Must have not recognized you — OhioGrassman (@Ohio_Grassman) May 7, 2015 [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-6" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] @sallykohn Why do you assume he never did it for a black lady or gentleman in the same circumstance? — M. Fehrman (@MFehrman) May 7, 2015 [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-7" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe]Or maybe just simple #fameprivilege RT @sallykohn: Forgot my wallet. MTA officer let me on subway for free. #classprivilege #whiteprivilege — Michele Frost (@michelelfrost) May 7, 2015 [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-8" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] @sallykohn You just confirmed Mark Twain's cynicism. No good deed goes unpunished. — writeonright (@Writeonright) May 7, 2015 Kohn tried to defend her prejudices: [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-9" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe]A. Naming class/race privilege isn't calling bestower of privileged treatment classist or racist. Just a fact of biases we all possess. — Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) May 7, 2015 But that was a no-go, too: [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-10" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe]So you're saying he wouldn't have let you through if you weren't white, correct? @sallykohn — Kate Hyde (@misskathrynhyde) May 7, 2015 [iframe class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-11" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: currentColor; display: block; visibility: hidden; position: absolute; min-width: 220px; max-width: 100%; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] @sallykohn Explain away it if makes you feel better. The right thing to do is to thank the person, not to assume they're racist. — B A L D W I N (@baldwin100) May 7, 2015 Recently, Kohn gave a TED Talk in which she explained about imputing good motives to people: “(W)hat I’ve realized is political persuasion doesn’t begin with ideas or facts or data,” she said. “Political persuasion begins with being ‘emotionally correct.'” ijreview.com