OMG the man was Chinese

[samintx]

That they dragged off the plane…..I heard he was Chinese and he is alleging that is why they tried to boot him. What a terrible mess. The airline acted like brown shirts. And if he IS a Doctor…..wow….how do you spell law suit for millions?

[cbelt3]

The ethnicity is irrelevant to me. The airline treated an elderly passenger TERRIBLY.

The fact that they were 'within their rights' is also irrelevant. Hopefully this incident will produce a level of change in the industry, and passengers will not be treated like idiot cattle. But.. I'm not holding my breath. The 'laws' put in place that allow mistreatment were typical 'security' over-reactions.

So many failures at so many levels.

[rjmacs]

cbelt3 wrote:
The ethnicity is irrelevant to me. The airline treated an elderly passenger TERRIBLY.

It's not irrelevant to the people of China. They have viewed the videos hundreds of millions of times, and to many of their eyes, the incident seems patently racist. This is going to be a major headache/problem for United in China.

[beagledave]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
The ethnicity is irrelevant to me. The airline treated an elderly passenger TERRIBLY.

It's not irrelevant to the people of China. They have viewed the videos hundreds of millions of times, and to many of their eyes, the incident seems patently racist. This is going to be a major headache/problem for United in China.
It's all good. Our POTUS has a FABULOUS relationship with the Chinese. He loves them.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....according to Trump....it is pronounced......Gina.....

[samintx]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
The ethnicity is irrelevant to me. The airline treated an elderly passenger TERRIBLY.

It's not irrelevant to the people of China. They have viewed the videos hundreds of millions of times, and to many of their eyes, the incident seems patently racist. This is going to be a major headache/problem for United in China.
Exactly. I don't care what he was CHinese, black, Indian whatever. It is the perception if he was not a white American or European. It only mulitiplies the problem for the airline. AND after the Chinese visit.

Will Trump call in the airline CEO and give him a tongue lashing?

[$tevie]

People are mocking the constant refrain that passengers were "randomly selected" to be removed.

[OWC Jamie]

Yes, security took him off the plane because of his ethnicity, not because of his belligerence and refusal to cooperate.

[rjmacs]

$tevie wrote:
People are mocking the constant refrain that passengers were "randomly selected" to be removed.

I wrote - and erased - on the other side a comment about how I'm sure that Asian people are probably just inventing their claims of racist treatment out of whole cloth, in the interest of compelling "politically correct" behavior from the airlines. I'm sure that is has NOTHING to do with frequent experiences of racism when dealing with American (and other western) corporations. Nope. It's just a well-coordinated campaign - designed to appear spontaneous and widespread - of several hundred million people designed to malign the good name of a fair-minded and equitable American corporation.

Mmm-hmm. Yup. That explains it.

[samintx]

BEIJING (AP) — Images of a bloodied passenger being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago drew widespread condemnation in China following a witness' report that the man said he was targeted because he was Chinese.

Video of the violent incident posted on China's popular Twitter-like microblogging service Weibo had been viewed more than 210 million times by late Tuesday. Many responded with outrage over perceived ethnic bias against the passenger and some called for a boycott of the U.S.-based airline.

"Rubbish!" writer Su Danqing posted on Weibo. "When they were treating this Asian man, they never thought of human rights, otherwise they wouldn't have done it that way."

"Damn it! This airline must be boycotted!" said a posting from Liu Bing, a telecommunications company worker.

JUST PART of a news story from China.