Crying
Oh my god. I don't know if I can handle life today after reading that. Someone DIDN'T UNDERSTAND MATH AND THOUGHT IT WAS ARABIC. And thinking it was Arabic, thought the person next to them must be a terrorist. There are so many failures in that person's logical reasoning that I'm not sure I have what it takes to just be American today.
They should put that person in jail
She ought to be charged for everyone's time that she wasted.
@ellemef For serious. This is "if you see something, say something" taken to its most extreme conclusion. But honestly, one lone xenophobe wasn't to blame here, the fact that she alerted the stewardess and the pilot, both of whom are presumably grown ups, and they didn't say "ma'am, you're being a fucking loon, you don't have the authority to stop the plane, sit the fuck down or face arrest when we reach the terminal" is frustrating beyond belief.
Made the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...
Doesn't every flight have an air marshal aboard now? If so, why wasn't he/she alerted? This issue could have been solved in less time than it took me to tap this post out on my phone.
Ah, the infamous Al Gebra strikes again!
And those devious terrorists even got their evil Arabic numerals so embedded in our lives that we think nothing of the dangerous terrorist numbers. Back to Roman numerals for me! #WhatWouldJesusAdd
@Lockjaw That plan isn't really en vogue these days. When they realized that the return on the money they were spending was minimal (as with many ill-planned panic security measures tend to be), they massively scaled the program back - especially as the airlines are trying to grub every last dollar of revenue. Nowadays, it's more of a random sampling of high-probability flights rather than a butt on every plane.
Philly represent, yo!
It really is time to put stupid people on the no fly list.
It's not a story about math or Arabic, it's a story about white supremacy. It's not a story about a bigoted passenger, it's a story about a bigot-enabling industry.