Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Mind-reading isn't required to determine that an individual or some group of individuals have behaved in a racist way. Racism can be evidenced by behavior/behavioral differences.
"Do you really 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?"
What is your answer to that question? It's not a strawman.
I would have no idea, as I wasn't there, nor were you, or any of us. We know scant facts at all about the situation. We don't even know the race of each of the passengers who deplaned, for that matter.
I know the FT unofficial hobby is
authoritatively speculating, but it is possible for people to have no opinion about the motives of random strangers we haven't met, and an incident we did not witness in person and only know about from a brief local news website.
Originally Posted by
Tchiowa
Actually it is. You can see that they acted in a negative way to a "person of color" but you can *not* say that they did it because of the color of his skin.
Exactly.
Originally Posted by
shenon1
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.
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