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I did not suggest this justifies anything - in fact I said this was severely mishandled. I merely tried to explain the slight against overbooking some people se
by problems 9y ago
I did not suggest this justifies anything - in fact I said this was severely mishandled. I merely tried to explain the slight against overbooking some people seem to have - which is mostly unrelated entirely, but that's why I didn't respond to the top post, but to a post complaining about the practice of overbooking.
Though I don't see anything that makes me think this was a racist act, where'd you get that idea?
- jessaustin 9y agoSorry I thought you were talking about airline profits, and offering an opinion about them. I disagree with the opinion I thought you offered, because every deregulated airline in existence has similar or worse margins, nearly all the time. Somehow most of them have been able to avoid both brutalizing their passengers and United-level overbooking. It's racist because a small middle-aged Chinese physician was forcibly removed. There's no way they would have removed a middle-aged white physician. Likewise, even the big tough airline security asshole who assaulted the physician would have hesitated to forcibly remove someone his own size or larger. This passenger was someone he could handle the way he would handle a child or a woman, without suffering the same legal repercussions that handling a child or woman in that fashion would entail. Yes, I know there are reports of using a "random computer" to select this passenger. That's what's known in the airline industry as "lying" and in the media industry as "we like to copy and paste press releases".