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Originally Posted by MSD
My favorite episode. A brilliant social commentary that will always hold true.
This wasn't random, this was a family being removed from a flight because a bunch of Muslims were talking how close other planes were and made ignorant passengers uncomfortable. If white people said it, nobody would have given a shit. I was talking with a friend about the "can't say bomb on an airplane" bit from Meet The Parents last time I was in an airport and nobody cared because we were just a couple of white guys who looked ordinary except for being unusually tall. I got to Miami and found a .22 casing in my luggage (anyone who shoots will tell you that those fucking things end up everywhere) and had managed to get past security.
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While we all have our opinions, I still do not onsider this profiling. If i heard ANYONE making a comment that made me uncomfortable I would say something. Maybe it is just me, but personally I would be fine with ANYONE being removed from a flight because someone was concerned about a comment. I was on a flight even BEFORE 9/11 and me and 3 of my friends were removed from a flight because someone claimed that we were talking about bombs...which we were...considering one of my fellow Marines was in explosive ordinance disposal...Looking back I realize that our discussion was DEFINATELY not in good taste considering the situation, but none of us really thought about it until after. So if someone makes a comment that makes another person uncomfortable (i.e. safety conditions, 'wow I am right by the engine, can you imagin if..." then sorry, time to get checked out and if necessary removed from that flight. Now did the airlines take things overboard considering they were a Muslim family? Maybe, I wasn't there, and I really don't put much faith in the media these days. But again, this is just my opinion.