UES moms’ ‘right’ hook
FB conservatives fume
Two Upper East Side moms are threatening legal action over a Facebook spat that includes allegations of racism and bullying.
The private “UES Mommas” Facebook page, with more than 27,000 members, has been a platform for racially charged battles this month — a sharp departure from its normal fare of Upper East Side lifestyle tips.
The two lawyered-up women declared themselves proud conservatives, with one of them writing on Facebook that “white privilege” is nonsense and that the Black Lives Matter movement “serves no purpose.”
The angry back-and-forth reached a fevered pitch when one of the women, threatened with legal action, wrote: “Holy s--t lady — I hope no one screenshots your racist rants & sends them to your employer or they get public somehow.”
The two conservative women retained criminaldefense lawyer Yifat Schnur, of Edison, NJ, who penned a cease-and-desist message and said his clients were unfairly called racists.
“Your continuous engagement in libelous, tortious, wrongful and illegal conduct maligning my clients on Facebook is unacceptable,” Schnur wrote in an e-mailed letter published by the site Jezebel.
“The repeated reference to my clients as ‘racists,’ ‘a racist’ . . . are all statements which are actionable under New York state law for tortious interference, libel and slander,” she wrote.
The cease-and-desist notice went to at least two “UES Mommas” members.
“The idea that someone would be upset about the consequences of their own words and try to put that blame on someone else is quite shocking to me,” a woman targeted by Schnur’s letter told Jezebel.
The two women have been booted from “UES Mommas,” Jezebel reported.
Schnur, group founder Christine Kelley Irwin and moderator Mariana Lopez Taormina did not return messages on Thursday.