Originally Posted by GUWonder

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Originally Posted by shenon1


Racist - man of African American decent gets on plane, passengers as to leave because he is on plane.

Not Racist - man of African American decent gets on plane, takes pictures, takes out sim card, snaps in half, throws it in toilet, scuffles, people see him leaving in handcuffs. Likely poor communication and explanation to passengers who are left to weigh risks of continuing on a flight that has seen at least one incident already. For all I know passengers saw him talking with three other pale faced men with large clown shoes.

Racist - baiting others by using language such as brown, white and sun-burned, scary brown men. I don't know that certain passengers on the flight were or were not racist as there really isn't enough information on their thoughts and actions however it is clear who is racist in reading through this thread.




African, not African-American, according to one article.

Do you believe a seventeen year old girl of only ethnic European appearance in the same circumstances as this guy would have had the same passengers and crew freaking out in the same way? The hysterical minority on the flight behaved as if there was a terrorist on board. Do you think that the hysteria would be the same if the passenger were not a "scary dark male" and was a teenager of ethnic majority background?

It really isn't so hard to answer these questions. Try.