beware of this man.
i was getting on bart today. when i’m on public transportation, i have my headphones in. chances are, ive usually had a long day of human interaction and this is my only time to have time to myself. he came up to me and asked me if he could come in behind me. i gave him an extremely polite answer. i said “i’d prefer if you didn’t.” and he got incredibly angry. i went and loaded my clipper card. i wouldn’t have been able to get home if i hadn’t and he found another way in. essentially, i thought the interaction was over. but then i get up on the platform and he’s gone, i don’t even care. i stand there and get on my phone. i’m simply trying to get home but then he comes up to me and starts saying how since im a black person, i should have let him do it and that im a karen because i didnt let him do it. then he kept antagonizing me, calling me a karen. and i lost my shit so i start cussing right back at him. then he tried to flip the switch and say that i was coming up on him and made a big scene in the train because he kept coming back to call me out of my name. he clearly just wanted to have something to say and tried to use my identity against me having boundaries and social preferences. im posting this here because i honestly just wanted people to be aware that these folks exist.