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Alby_da_Wolf on 22 December 2016
Lawlight said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Now just imagine being killed by a paranoid that overreacts to anything. Speaking Arabic isn't jump scaring people, there have been scientists reported as Arab terrorists by ignorant people with shit instead of brains in their skulls and kicked off planes for having a beard and writing math formulas with greek letters.

Why are you defending that schmuck?

He didn't kill or harm anybody, he didn't even vaguely come close to doing or threatening it. A stupid prank is far different from a dangerous prank, and stupid people reacted in the same way also with people that weren't doing pranks at all, so it's quite likely overreaction is the problem this time too.



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Slimebeast on 22 December 2016
hershel_layton said:

https://mobile.twitter.com/omgAdamSaleh/status/811531782982078464/video/1

 

I find this very disappointing. What's even worse is the people waving goodbye and smiling that he's being kicked off.

 

Edit: so apparently he's the type of person to make those stupid pranks. Question is, are they simply dumb, or are they "isis on planes!" Pranks? Even if they're horrible and not funny, it'd be a bit shallown to kick him off if it isn't anything bad

I'd hate to bash on all airline employees though. I'd also not want to jump to bashing everyone. These types of incidents are obvious one out of a million, so it's clear that it's simply bad judgement. However, it's unfortunate that we must still deal with such prejudice. 

 

One can hope that 2017 brings change.

Your racist hunt failed in an epic manner.

Now show some honest behaviour and edit your OP properly, including the thread title, so that it becomes clear for everybody that it's this foreign instigator and provocateur that should be in focus and discussed, rather than imagined "white racists".



Slimebeast on 22 December 2016

So in truth this was just another example why we should stop immigration from the third world entirely.

Europeans, we need to rise up!



Lawlight on 22 December 2016
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Lawlight said:

Why are you defending that schmuck?

He didn't kill or harm anybody, he didn't even vaguely come close to doing or threatening it. A stupid prank is far different from a dangerous prank, and stupid people reacted in the same way also with people that weren't doing pranks at all, so it's quite likely overreaction is the problem this time too.

You don't need to harm anyone to be a nuisance. I'm all for nuisances being kicked off planes. Flying is already a hassle without idiots being disruptive.



Mr Puggsly on 22 December 2016
ArchangelMadzz said:

I don't know what's worse, the fact that this is a prank,

Or the fact that it worked.

I work at the airport and I see middle eastern speaking different languages all the time.

Do I think its possible somebody got concerned for hearing different language? Its possible. But I suspect there is more to this story and we aren't seeing it.



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Mr Puggsly on 22 December 2016
Lawlight said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

He didn't kill or harm anybody, he didn't even vaguely come close to doing or threatening it. A stupid prank is far different from a dangerous prank, and stupid people reacted in the same way also with people that weren't doing pranks at all, so it's quite likely overreaction is the problem this time too.

You don't need to harm anyone to be a nuisance. I'm all for nuisances being kicked off planes. Flying is already a hassle without idiots being disruptive.

This.

Airports don't put up with much bullshit. If you bring attention to yourself at the airport the cops/security will investigate it immediately.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 22 December 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
Lawlight said:

You don't need to harm anyone to be a nuisance. I'm all for nuisances being kicked off planes. Flying is already a hassle without idiots being disruptive.

This.

Airports don't put up with much bullshit. If you bring attention to yourself at the airport the cops/security will investigate it immediately.

Investigating for serious reasons is different from doing it because ignorant paranoids report anything they don't understand, like a bearded scientist writing formulas, in the latter case the really disruptive ones are the ignorant paranoids, and despite that prankster being quite an idiot on average, this time the prank just wasn't so stupid and actually pointed out this ignorant and paranoid attitude.



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Qwark on 22 December 2016
bananaking21 said:
JRPGfan said:

Why would you count down in arabic on a plane, other than to scare people shitless ?
Thats like Yelling "I have a b*mb!" on a plane, you just dont do it.

Senseless and mean thing to do.

The question is, why does counting down in Arabic scare people shitless? If the man counted down in English, would he have been kicked off the plane?

 

 

However, this kind of behaviour is stupid. If he was fishing for a reaction from the passengers and employees, and got it. Then he shouldn't complain. This whole act is childish and only puts fuel on the fire of a current issue. He doesn't help, he only makes things worse, and for no reason other than being a dick. 

Perhaps this has something to do with the recent attacks of IS and that two planes once flew into two world trade center buildings in NY. Both of these where according to most media isalmic terrorist attacks. Feel free to believe otherwise though, since there are conspiracy theories the US did it to themselves for oil. So yeah I get it, also the plane with Russians which crashed a while ago in Egypt also was rumoured to be a terrorist attack since on the black box they could retrieve something that indicated the plane exploding mid-air. I don't think it is totally unjustified for people being anxious when someone starts speaking arabic on an airline which doesn't come from an Arabic country.



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Lawlight on 22 December 2016
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Mr Puggsly said:

This.

Airports don't put up with much bullshit. If you bring attention to yourself at the airport the cops/security will investigate it immediately.

Investigating for serious reasons is different from doing it because ignorant paranoids report anything they don't understand, like a bearded scientist writing formulas, in the latter case the really disruptive ones are the ignorant paranoids, and despite that prankster being quite an idiot on average, this time the prank just wasn't so stupid and actually pointed out this ignorant and paranoid attitude.

Go ahead and scream "bomb" on a plane or at an airport. Harmless, right? I mean, come on, sometimes you need to use common sense.



bananaking21 on 22 December 2016
Qwark said:
bananaking21 said:

The question is, why does counting down in Arabic scare people shitless? If the man counted down in English, would he have been kicked off the plane?

 

 

However, this kind of behaviour is stupid. If he was fishing for a reaction from the passengers and employees, and got it. Then he shouldn't complain. This whole act is childish and only puts fuel on the fire of a current issue. He doesn't help, he only makes things worse, and for no reason other than being a dick. 

Perhaps this has something to do with the recent attacks of IS and that two planes once flew into two world trade center buildings in NY. Both of these where according to most media isalmic terrorist attacks. Feel free to believe otherwise though, since there are conspiracy theories the US did it to themselves for oil. So yeah I get it, also the plane with Russians which crashed a while ago in Egypt also was rumoured to be a terrorist attack since on the black box they could retrieve something that indicated the plane exploding mid-air. I don't think it is totally unjustified for people being anxious when someone starts speaking arabic on an airline which doesn't come from an Arabic country.

thats like saying its rational and ok for people in italy to be scared of a black man speaking with an american accent while in a store. since the black arrest rate for robbery was 8.55 times higher than whites in the USA. or people in a school in germany being afraid of an american, since the number of school shootings in the USA since 2013 is over 200. the actions of the few (very few), certainly do not represent the actions of the many. and being afraid of someone because he is speaking a different language is the definition of ignorance, and will certainly lead to prejudice.