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How about if airlines instead offer a refund or voucher to scared white people who are afraid to share a flight with a brown person and decide to get off the pl
by bunderbunder 11y ago
How about if airlines instead offer a refund or voucher to scared white people who are afraid to share a flight with a brown person and decide to get off the plane?
- mc32 11y agoHow do you know this passenger was "brown". ME people come in many shades. Muslims come in pretty much all shades. What if he were Albanian and kicked off, would that have been okay? It's not always white vs other. You can find this kind if fear in India (where you have violent clashes pretty frequently). Are you saying somehow Americans are better than other people and somehow therefore should be other than human? I know we should all strive to be better people. Looking at things along stark racial lines is not always helpful. Treating a subgroup of people as the Other is not particularly a "white" thing. It happens to all people --travel a bit. We should expect more from all people.
- bunderbunder 11y agoI know he's brown because it says so right there in the article. 'Brown' is a catch-all term that folks of many ethnicities, including Middle Eastern ones, use to describe themselves. And the existence of racism on the other side of the planet does not somehow diminish or excuse or modulate how racism occurs in the USA.
- mc32 11y agoThere are people in India who are essentially the same "race" who do violence and injustice to each other, so it's not entirely clear to me "racism" is what causes people to act biased. That is my point. People are quick to attribute many ills to race but we see the same thing intra-racially, so there would appear to be other causes. That's not saying racism does not exist. It does, but I don't know this is attributable to it.
- jeremysmyth 11y agoAll too often, the scared white person is wearing the airline's uniform.