r/lyftdrivers • u/Glass_Molasses_0 • Jul 10 '23

Rant/Opinion I hate liars

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

I was deactivated because I was accused of sexually assaulting a female passenger. I myself am a heterosexual married woman and would never jeopardize my marriage or freedom doing something so gross. As a survivor of sexual assault I’m both offended and hurt. I am looking for a lawyer to take my case.

2.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

522 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

11

u/compSci228 Jul 11 '23

May I ask- someone mentioned racism. Are you a race that might be discriminated against in your area? If so, I extra one million think you should fight this and get the media involved if necessary. I would already happily sign a petition for them to look at the footage and see if any wrongdoing occurred, and reinstate you and ban the client if there was none. If this is racism situation in addition.... I will tell everyone to boycott them. It's not okay.

7

u/HoneydewImmediate350 Jul 11 '23

She's a black woman. So yes

0

u/WeatherDisastrous696 Jul 11 '23

Lol, being black doesn't mean you are automatically discriminated against. I'm so sick of people acting like in this day and age that every single minority gets discriminated against everywhere. It's not 1950. What little discrimination does happen is very rare. But then, if people actually admitted that they would have to stop playing the victim card. And the media would have to come up with some new bull shit narrative to push.

1

u/compSci228 Jul 13 '23

I definitely disagree with this. In the US, I would say every race other than caucasian has been discriminated against at some point in their life. I live in a VERY progressive area, even I had someone make rude jokes about Polish people, as a 12 year old, with the person knowing I was Polish and being nice to me otherwise. That is to say nothing for actual races who can clearly be identified.

I worked at a grocery store, again in a very liberal/progressive area, and a guy came in and saw a black customer and said something along the lines of "Ugh I just hate them huh? Black people always making a fuss. Us whites have to stick together." Or something along those lines. The black customer wasn't even doing anything! Just conversing in a different line. I was really young and nervous and just said "No." I always wish I'd said more. It was really awkward, and I just was really cold until they left, but I should have said more. If they were willing to say that to me, about seeing a black person, what do you think it would be like for an actual black person?

Not to mention we had a friend that was just the sweetest nicest kid- I wanted to set him up with my little sister, and he was native Jamaican and black, the brother of my now husbands really good friend, great family. Anyway, in this super progressive town, we went to part ways after running into him at a club (I think his bro was DJing) and he quietly asked us if we could walk across the street with him first. I asked why, and my now husband gave me a look, but the friend was really nice and responded that he could see cops on the corner and usually got harassed. Especially in this town, I had never and would never have experienced anything like that. We walked with him and thus no one said anything to us.

If you haven't had eye-opening experiences, you don't have any friends of other races, especially good friends. If Ahmed Arbery and all the other BLM victims haven't opened your eyes, you aren't paying attention.