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Southwest sees speaking Arabic as a threat - kicks man off flight

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Apr 18, 2016.

  1. Northside Storm

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    1) The fact that it wasn't.

    2) The flight crew chose to act the way they did and used those words as their justification. You seem to be doing the same. I wonder why?

    3) What "colors" am I showing then?
     
  2. sirbaihu

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    I guess it depends who was wanting to snitch and what they said to me. If the wrong snitch told me someone said "the martyrs," I would not worry about it. Then, we would fly safely to our destination and this thread would not exist.
     
  3. Northside Storm

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    so...what you're saying is that you crafted a narrative?

    lol.
     
  4. Cohete Rojo

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    How would you have known it was a "non-threat"? I'm confused. Are you saying you would have exercised somekind of psychic future-telling powers?
     
  5. Cohete Rojo

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    What do you mean by "snitch" and what exactly is the "wrong snitch"?
     
  6. Northside Storm

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    lol, I actually looked up examples of people getting kicked out of planes so I could point out how that was different from these instances, but I forgot I was "debating" with you and I can sum up your arguments in terms of their pure intellectual laziness.

    so dickish.

    Can you point me to examples of people getting kicked out of planes because they looked White? thanks.

    My life is great Bobby, thanks for asking, maybe you should reconsider how you "debate" if you have to refer to people's lives outside of the forum. I'm not the one with what, 20 posts a day?
     
  7. Bobbythegreat

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    And at some point your random judgment would be wrong leading to the death of everyone on your plane and it would be your fault.....or the airline would find out that you dismissed a potential threat and you'd be out of a job and rightfully blacklisted from working in that industry.

    No, I'm saying I used common sense, something it seems a lot of people in the D&D lack. I look for rational reasons why things might have happened, you assume that everyone is racist or that there is some conspiracy to hassle people.

    Looking at things your way, sure sometimes you'll be right, but you'll look like a moron the vast majority of times.
     
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  9. Northside Storm

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    A kid speaking a few words in Arabic is not a threat, especially after they have been searched and the plane has been searched. The fact that you can't see this is actually really really indicative of how irrational your biases are.
     
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    So basically you made a lot of assumptions, created a narrative, and then passed that off as "common sense."

    Got it.
     
  11. Northside Storm

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    You used common sense--LOL. More like your mind couldn't take the facts so you had to "bend" them your way, what you're claiming I do, based on--what, have you even bothered looking into individual cases beyond your vapid imagination?

    Par for the course. The strict Constitutionalist who hasn't read an opinion in his life. The "rational reasons" man who comes up with a conspiracy on the part of Muslims to get hassled on airplanes for their appearance.

    Thanks very much. I can see you "cair".
     
  12. Northside Storm

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    what did you think Justin Bieber was sent to do
     
  13. Bobbythegreat

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    This is just another example of your inadequacy, you don't know why those people were kicked off the flight and you didn't post anything containing actual facts. You just posted that they "looked middle eastern" and the fact that they got kicked off the plane and are implying that the reason it happened was solely because they "looked middle eastern".....it's sad that you don't see how that's flawed. For all you know there was a perfectly valid reason why they were kicked off the flight, but you saw all you needed to see and you decided to cry racism or bigotry without looking into the matter further.

    A hammer saw a nail.
     
  14. Northside Storm

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    Well, actually Vox posted that, and you're free to do research on your own if you want to look for extenuating circumstances. I don't have a monopoly on research here, though it seems I do have one for intellectual effort in our discussion.
     
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    The snitch is the person who wrongly narced on an innocent person.

    The "wrong" part means the narc-snitch provided useless information which led to a wrong conclusion about the person the narc-snitch was afraid of.
     
  16. Bobbythegreat

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    There was a lack of facts, so instead of assuming something unlikely I thought of logical reasons why events would happen. You assume racism because you can't help yourself, I assume there is a logical explanation for actions given no disciplinary action or legal action.
     
  17. Northside Storm

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    So you need consequences for it to be real?

    Are you following the case where the FAA is being sued?

    I can take you down a rabbit hole of positions where you'll have to reconcile your squirmy illogic with factual violations of the Constitution as determined by federal courts that clearly show a pattern of anti-Muslim bias. Despite your professed love of the Constitution, I often wonder if you've ever read it.
     
  18. Cohete Rojo

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    That does not explain how you would have known that it was a "fact" that he was a "non-threat". How exactly would you have known this was a fact at the time?

    He may be a kid but he is also an adult - in fact he is a graduate student in college.
     
  19. Cohete Rojo

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    So your assumption is that this person is a snitch? Without evidence?
     
  20. Bobbythegreat

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    I need a real reason to think that it was racism or bigotry because I don't just assume that like you do. To you, all you need to know is that a "middle eastern looking" person was kicked off a plane and you take that as evidence of racism or bigotry....kind of says a lot about your credibility.
     

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