Solidarity, let alone eye contact, isn’t easy to come by on the New York City subway, but on Saturday night, according to a Facebook post by 27-year-old lawyer Gregory Locke that’s gone viral, New Yorkers worked together to scrub swastikas and slurs from the walls of a train car.
Locke explains in his Facebook post that he boarded the Manhattan subway car on Saturday night to find, “Swastikas on every advertisement and every window.” Everyone in the car was silent, by Locke’s account, until one guy broke the ice by remarking, “Hand sanitizer gets rid of Sharpie.” From there, a group of strangers, undoubtedly tired and desiring only to return home, got to work removing the antisemitic hate speech, together. And without calling the cops.