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Old Aug 29, 2019, 3:45 pm
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Originally Posted by RangerNS
Absolutely.

And while I'm confident that Kardinal Offishall has experienced racism in their lives, and that Air Canada does surely have horrible agents, that isn't enough that this particular incident can automatically be categorized as racist in nature.

Its a special kind of privilege to assume that someone being an ....... to you isn't just an ......., and they have selected you for their wrath.
To be fair, it wasn't Kardinal who used the word "racism" anywhere. It was the media making a HUGE leap to infer "they're racist" from this statement:

Nevermind the fact that they still say “sir this line is for Business class or priority passengers” half the time I’m ready to board.
@24left pointed this out way upthread, but most people seem to have missed it.
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