Thread by @KaraCalavera

This investigation by Buckingham Palace into supposed bullying is unprecedented because no one in The Firm has had to take orders from a Black woman--or any Black person--before.

That's all this is. Courtiers take orders from spoiled brats who think they've been chosen by God.

https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1367456057329659912

There is no way you can make me believe that a woman who just married in--a 36-year-old woman whose former co-workers never had but nice words to say about her--swept in and bullied workers in something referred to as The Firm.

No one was shaking in their well-heeled boots over her reactions to their work. They've served the Queen and her self-righteous offspring for decades. These are people taught to make themselves invisible when their betters walk down the hallway.

I do not believe, for even a millisecond, that Meghan Markle walked in with the demands of a diva. If anything, I'd imagine she'd have felt uncomfortable with the formality of it all.

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and assume that she asked her staff to do things, and then her staff went to other people and asked them if they had to do those things.

I saw this happen in action years back when I managed a restaurant and another manager was a Black woman. And sometimes her crew would, like, ask me to OK her orders. And sometimes my crew would ask the male manager to OK my orders.

And often when she and I told our crews to do things--things that were their literal jobs--we were bullying bitches. They'd whine to me about her being a bitch, and whine to him about me being a bitch.

A few times, the Black female manager and I got called in to talk to the owner about, like, tandem bullying because people would come to me with complaints about her, and I'd say, "She told you to do it, so you have to do it."

People don't want to believe this happens--that there's no sexist or racist bias in these things--but there is. There are some people who don't want to be ordered around by people they see as their inferiors. They have an inherent bias.

(As if I didn't have enough to do for $8.50 an hour. If she'd been asking them to lick the floor clean, I'd have addressed it. She was just saying, "Wipe down the counters before you leave." It takes 5 minutes to wipe down a counter, and 15 minutes to complain about it later.)