In response to a recent incident of racial profiling, Southwest seems to endorse prejudice.
In two separate incidents this week, Southwest Airlines has kicked Arabic-speaking passengers off their flights following customer complaints. The airline doesn't seem to understand this is something corporations should not do in 2015.
In one case, business owners Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad were asked to step aside because fellow passengers were, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia, "afraid to fly with them." Eventually, the boarding agent told the two men they could not get on the flight because other passengers overheard them speaking Arabic.
"If that person doesn't feel safe, let them take the bus," Khalil said to a Southwest Airlines gate agent, according to NBC 10. "We're American citizens just like everybody else."
As Gawker's Melissa Cronin notes, this effectively deputizes bigots to eject whomever they want, a trend Southwest should put a stop to unless it wants to become the official airline for the country’s bigots.
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14 comments:
I am flying Southwest now forever! They are going to get all my business, this is what needs to be done across the board. If no one did any business with, or any interactions with Muslims, they would leave! No true American wants these anti-christ animals here!
If you are American, then speak English.
10:04, EXACTLY! In the current climate, a wise Muslim would avoid stirring things up until it quiets down. Unless, of course, you plan on doing something that you don't want the other passengers to know about!
Most people on the eastern shore are americans and barely speak english.
Excellent, sign me up.
@10:04 EXACTLY @ 11:06 I take it you are a TRANSPLANT to the Eastern Shore, and since you care enough to put the people who live here down, why not do us a favor and go back to where ever you came from!
10:04 nailed it - 11:06 is a moron!
Start throwing them out at 35,000 feet! The slimes think up new ways to kill infidels every day - we should be so creative!
Bunch of marble mouthed shorebillies. Yes throw out the transplants - the only redeeming culture in this decrepit ghetto community.
Rejoice rejoice and lets not let anyone else in. Let us continue to live in the prehistoric times and not progress into 2015. Let us continue on with our ignorant gossiping backstabbing belittling ways.
Run and hide in fear if an outsider enters and brings new ideas and thoughts.
1:00pm
You are no different than the terrorist and the illegals that are coming to this country and want us to change to meet their needs. If you do NOT like the Eastern Shore pack up and leave and stop trying to change things to fit your agenda. I moved here years ago to get away from people like you! Go back across the bridge.
1:04 - BRAVO!
1:04 as an admitted transplant you will also be exiled.
Amazing that you made all that BS up on your own, as nowhere did I say you had to conform to my ways. But thank you for proving my point with your baseless rant and ignorance. Hooray
1:20
No I don't think so. I don't want to change people. I accept them for who they are. Maybe you should try it.
Just because I speak the truth doesn't mean is it made up. I'm sure others feel the exact same way. You don't agree with the way things are done so you try to belittle someone to make yourself seem more important. Weren't you the one that said that people here were the ones that belittle others? Pot meet kettle.
That's crazy talk 1:00. Don't ever speak those treasonous words in public lest you be lynched. The bornhere's relatives came to this land, stole it from the indians, interbred amongst their own, developed their own language and ultimately an IQ of backwood wisdom that you can never know. How some respect!
What the hell is everybody arguing about, from here come here I'm a come here about 40 years ago and love it. The only ones that bother me are the ones that come from another country illegaly'
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