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angrychair

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13. What.the.hell.

Reply to Seedersandleechers (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 05:09 PM

Apr 2013

This kind of stuff really gets me on a rant quick. The blanket stereotypes piss me off. The "they have brown skin and speak funny so they must be bad" bullshit is the WRONG way to go about it. Same thing with this poor kid in Boston that was TACKLED when running away from the scene. He was brunt and hurting, scared and running like everyone else but was jumped and dragged to the cops because because he "looked different" and now, no matter what, people are going to look at him like he did something wrong when he didn't. Not the way to react to this situation.
If I were a betting man I'd wager that this job was homespun by white, right-wing fascist.
Time will tell.

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Plane brought back to gate at Logan Airport [View all] Seedersandleechers Apr 2013 OP

"...(T)wo men on that plane - not sitting next to each other - and speaking Arabic"? rocktivity Apr 2013 #1

As I understood it, they were talking to each other. They were not sitting next to each other. StrayKat Apr 2013 #2

So they talked across the aisle? Across some seats? Over some rows? rocktivity Apr 2013 #7

8 hrs after the incident, and it still doesn't say, so we're left to speculate. StrayKat Apr 2013 #10

There isn't even any indication whether the plane took off afterwards rocktivity Apr 2013 #17

I agree. n/t StrayKat Apr 2013 #26

And if someone was lingusitically advanced enough to be sure it was Arabic DFW Apr 2013 #6

Well, clearly they were speaking Terrist. Posteritatis Apr 2013 #16

Was that fluent Terrist or Pig-Terrist? tblue Apr 2013 #23

The word has a triple "r" DFW Apr 2013 #30

I don't know a word of either language (well, except for "pishi" in Farsi meaning "cat"), kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #18

Yeah, but that's cheating! DFW Apr 2013 #29

This is our ugliness at worse and I in general blame our reality tv/15 sec sound bite diabeticman Apr 2013 #3

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2013 #19

If my flight leaves tomorrow, remind me not to speak Catalan or Russian DFW Apr 2013 #4

Just keep posting in English at DU. Wait, they might not like that... freshwest Apr 2013 #31

Com pot ser això? DFW Apr 2013 #32

A similar thing happened at the Dallas airport Raven Apr 2013 #5

Which NOBODY managed to figure out BEFORE they were allowed to board... rocktivity Apr 2013 #8

Yeah, I know, and they actually had these Raven Apr 2013 #27

I hope there's more to it than that. tblue Apr 2013 #9

Those particular marathoners should have also been taken off the plane. leveymg Apr 2013 #11

The investigation may not yield results quickly bucolic_frolic Apr 2013 #12

What.the.hell. angrychair Apr 2013 #13

they cleared that poor guy in the hospital finally.. progressivebydesign Apr 2013 #21

Goes to show we don't trust TSA or screeners..... JustFiveMoreMinutes Apr 2013 #14

scared + stupid = lethal combination RufusTFirefly Apr 2013 #15

Ugh. here we go again. Shades of post 9/11 hysteria. progressivebydesign Apr 2013 #20

Exactly! SoapBox Apr 2013 #25

The entire American fleet was grounded for 4 hrs today frazzled Apr 2013 #22

Well it was a fox outlet WCGreen Apr 2013 #28

Ditto to "not this shit again" SoapBox Apr 2013 #24