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economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - GMDino - 05-07-2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/ Quote:On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - Nately120 - 05-07-2016 This is an economic formula: If you can honestly admit you can tell the difference between this and terrorism, I'm impressed! Seriously though, I am beyond amused we live in a country where white men are encouraged to walk around with assault rifles but Italians can't do math. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - Rotobeast - 05-07-2016 (05-07-2016, 06:02 PM)Nately120 Wrote: This is an economic formula: I can see the "Die Infidel, Die !" in there. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - Benton - 05-07-2016 I would rather people speak up when they're concerned. Ultimately it's a headache for security, but isn't that why we're pumping tax dollars into extra security? Hundreds of millions to Homeland Security grants every year, extra checks at airports. I don't fault the woman for being concerned, but airport security should vet the guy fairly quickly and move on. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - StLucieBengal - 05-07-2016 Really I have no problem with them pulling people aside. They should be targeting people instead of forcing everyone and wasting money. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - Brownshoe - 05-07-2016 (05-07-2016, 06:02 PM)Nately120 Wrote: This is an economic formula: Italians are... White (caucasian) RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - McC - 05-08-2016 Better to have ten thousand innocent people hassled than one guilty one bring down a plane full of innocent people. I know this doesn't mesh with this artificial PC bullshit culture in which we live. The real reality is that no one would want their loved ones to die because a suicide bomber slipped though the cracks. You can't have it both ways. That's the way vigilance works. It's not always perfect but if beats the lack of it. I know some of you guys spent a silly amount of time scouring the internet to find stories like these so you can prove over and over again how enlightened you are. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - GMDino - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 10:23 AM)McC Wrote: Better to have ten thousand innocent people hassled than one guilty one bring down a plane full of innocent people. Actually it was all over the news. But while I understand the desire to pigeon hole things and say if you see a brown person doing something you don't understand / like you should panic there is also something to be said about people being paranoid about things they don't understand like only when a brown person does them. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - bfine32 - 05-08-2016 That article and writer are absolutely hilarious,but I guess it feeds its target audience. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - GMDino - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 11:27 AM)bfine32 Wrote: That article and writer are absolutely hilarious,but I guess it feeds its target audience. Solid post on the topic of the article. Thanks for your insight. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - bfine32 - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 12:14 PM)GMDino Wrote: Solid post on the topic of the article. So now we can only comment on the topic and not the source? Sounds good. The article is designed to paint anyone that suspects foul play on an aircraft as an ignorant bigot. Ask yourself why we needed to know that the lady making the observation was a blond wearing flip flops. Then further ask yourself why the man is constantly refereed to in the descriptive such as: curly-haired, olive-skinned, foreigner, ect..Answer those questions and you will determine why I find this article to be hilarious and those that it feeds are equally as amusing. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - GMDino - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 01:25 PM)bfine32 Wrote: So now we can only comment on the topic and not the source? Sounds good. The article is designed to paint anyone that suspects foul play on an aircraft as an ignorant bigot. Ask yourself why we needed to know that the lady making the observation was a blond wearing flip flops. Then further ask yourself why the man is constantly refereed to in the descriptive such as: curly-haired, olive-skinned, foreigner, ect..Answer those questions and you will determine why I find this article to be hilarious and those that it feeds are equally as amusing. Because those were the actual facts of the situation. Because I while person saw a brown person doing something they didn't understand and held up a flight and got off the plane and suffers no consequences (so far) for her actions. I find amusing folks who think as long as it isn't a white guy getting profiled its, well, amusing. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - Rotobeast - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 01:37 PM)GMDino Wrote: Because those were the actual facts of the situation. Of course she didn't understand the situation. We're talking about a blonde and a differential equation here ! Seriously though, I'd probably give about anyone a pass on figuring out it was an equation ( given it was hand-written ). However, I don't understand what would be so dangerous about someone writing something. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - StLucieBengal - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 01:25 PM)bfine32 Wrote: So now we can only comment on the topic and not the source? Sounds good. The article is designed to paint anyone that suspects foul play on an aircraft as an ignorant bigot. Ask yourself why we needed to know that the lady making the observation was a blond wearing flip flops. Then further ask yourself why the man is constantly refereed to in the descriptive such as: curly-haired, olive-skinned, foreigner, ect..Answer those questions and you will determine why I find this article to be hilarious and those that it feeds are equally as amusing. Come on bfine.... These guys NEVER comment about a source. How dare you try to do so..... RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - StLucieBengal - 05-08-2016 I know some of you want to complain about the poor foreign scholar who was only doing his math. How could these ignorant amercians always pick on the foreign scholars who are only trying to do good in the world..... When I travel to Belarus no matter how many times I go there I get the same treatment .... They see I am an amercian and I get the full scan with my documents checked and questioned thoroughly. It's part of the deal of traveling. When any former soviet states travel here they have to go through additional screening.... Why we screen them is beyond me.... They don't blow up planes or cause any trouble. Unless it's the Chechens. When I was in turkey I got the extra screening... Same with Moscow. It's beneficial to target people from certain regions or countries. It's not racist ..... It's reasonable to expect and easy enough to abide. Like I said before, we should be doing more of this and less of worrying if someone thinks we are targeting people for anything other than likelihood of a crime. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - bfine32 - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 01:37 PM)GMDino Wrote: Because I while person saw a brown person doing something they didn't understand and held up a flight and got off the plane and suffers no consequences (so far) for her actions.I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say here. But hey, thanks to that hard-hitting, facts-based article; we know she was wearing flip flops. Uh oh Sandals, the common footwear of Arabs; maybe that is why she didn't get back on (not allowed back on) the plane. Or maybe it was because she was a woman. Contact Catherine Rampell I think we have a subject for her next hard-hitting, facts-based article. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - bfine32 - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 02:16 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Come on bfine.... These guys NEVER comment about a source. How dare you try to do so..... Not sure what I was thinking. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - Brownshoe - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 01:37 PM)GMDino Wrote: Because those were the actual facts of the situation. He is a white guy.... RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - bfine32 - 05-08-2016 (05-08-2016, 04:47 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: He is a white guy.... You do realize in this forum that race is not based on physical attributes. Makes it so much easier to call someone a racist. RE: economist ethnically profiled,interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight - BengalsRocker - 05-08-2016 Wouldn't it have been just as easy to tell the woman you are an Economist working on a math formula? The fact that Airport Security were trying to be vague and not put the guy on the spot(probably not too offend in public)is where the real fault is here. I just saw the new Captain America at the movie theater this weekend and they ran a service announcement about "sketchy characters". Basically they were saying pay attention and report something even if it's nothing. Just like taking your shoes off at the airport. It's the world we live in. People will make mistakes. It's not perfect... but safety is the main agenda. |