first paragraph, yes people suck. of all creeds colors and races, no disagreement there. and i too have been in sorta the same situations, but opposite end. you know how many times white people ask for info at restaurants or bars simply cause i'm mexican?! i could have a drink in my hand or just been staring at the overhead menu, nope, see my skin color and bam assume i'm working. but i shrug and walk away although it happens once every couple months. hell, this past friday during my lunch break this liquor store owner, to be fair he was south asian but i couldn't tell you from where exactly, sorta kept eyeing me while i looked through his bourbon collection on park and 23rd. casual friday, you know the city was hot and humid, so i wore shorts and a tshirt to work. i'm minding my own but dude keeps asking if i'm looking for anything in particular and i'm not since his collection was sub-par and anything good was astronomically priced. anyway, as i'm about to head out he goes, "hey you need a job? you got any friends that do? if you do let me know, can always need a guy or friends like you". so yeah, shit happens. although if he had better prices or selection, shit i might take him up on a 5hr work week, fucking bourbon prices are insane in the city.
as to your second paragraph, you've been saying the same thing since the onset of the thread (or damn near the beginning). don't think it was true then and still don't see a video here to support that "narrative shift". I will say that you have a valid viewpoint that may be considered down the road since i personally don't want to be part of a group think that creates "yet another category of hate and spite towards" anyone, but i stand by the assertion that we aren't there yet. Twenty four pages of vids and mostly surly bs, and still not aware of any of those vids were the "filmee" was unfairly maligned. You raise a point that I think should be considered but that is also not even close to being near its tipping point IMO.
agree to disagree on whether a tenant has the right to ask. this might be an nyc thing so an owner, i'll give some more leeway. (i say some cause not sure i run into too many building owners. you mean like a condo?). for a doorman, i will definitely answer no hesitation. but a tenant, not so much. maybe in the rest of the country i guess the tenant can ask if they suddenly get some kind of unassigned self bestowed sense of ownership in common areas but if the entering person gives a general normal answer, seems like most level headed folk should let it go IMO. Otherwise, this dude is veering close to that crazy psycho blonde bitch who stood in the doorway, followed the dude to his apartment, and still hounded him after HE PUT IN HIS APT KEY. honestly, that chick and this dude are both on the same spectrum of "fucked up" as tenants. she had no right and without more info i'm leaning hard towards most tenants don't either in normal circumstances. Sure context matters but in most cases i'm going with people should mind their business.
as for specifically people tailgating in, maybe i'd feel different if i wasn't in nyc, but there are too many people going in and out of most non-doorman buildings. and buildings with doorman, if a tenant gave me any kind of question...oh boy. phone would be out on the quickness. maybe cause its nyc or i just don't really hit up condo buildings but unless you are doing suspicious shit, people generally know better (although there was that one chick in bk a couple months back). but hey, maybe its different around the country with different time priorities and communities. I think i see where you're coming from on tailgating but in a city that is always in a hurry, with deliveries of all kinds at all hours of the day, if a non doorman tried to stop me from going in, almost definitely I'm going to think bc of the color of my skin. A doorman asks, sure no problem sir, here is my info, name, ID if you need it, whatever. but a tenant? hell nah. it aint there fucking job.
yeah, any more info on this story? i saw it hit most outlets like yahoo, google news, etc but no real follow up.