240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

UGA....your thoughts on this from earlier perhaps:

This particluar story shory should home in on the point that the person that threatens to blow up a plane may very well look like you


http://www.ajc.com/services/content/...svc=7&cxcat=13

Video: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?se...les&id=6592616

Sure the person who threatens to might look like any of us. How about the people who have actually blown up passenger jets in the last 50 years? What have they looked like? Are there a couple of IRA guys in the mix maybe? Why don't you dig up the data?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...aft_hijackings

It still wouldn't mean much in terms of how we ought to treat the non-plane blowing up passengers.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

How about the people who have actually blown up passenger jets in the last 50 years?

And exactly how often does this happen?


How often have planes blown up in the past 50 years?

For that matter, can you say what is the ratio of actual bomb threats and racial makeup of those who are perceived as actually going thru with said threat?

I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that the majority of people who attempt bomb scares are our own non minority US citizens

and BTW...we are talking US hijackings....nice wikipedia source (not 100% reliable mind you) and I am going off the assumption you were talking about actually BLOWN UP planes.

So let's get this straight are you referring to actual BLOWN UP planes or simple hijackings...make it clear.

ETA: Furthermore, after looking over your wiki link hmmm we have

Lebanese, Egyptian, US citizens, Chinese, Indian, Ethiopian, Iranian, Filipino, Sri Lankan, Croatian, Cuban, German, Japanese and so on...

You know what that says, anybody can be a hijacker...

[AlphaDeltaDelta]

A semi off topic comment but this reminded me of it. Mark Bingham, one of the men credited with stopping the terrorists on United flight 93 from crashing the plane into the Pentagon, was a member of my Alpha. I was looking over the room I'm moving into next semester in the Lodge, and found his name carved into the wall. The whole plane hijacking topic reminded me of it, sorry to do a hijacking of my own.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by AlphaDeltaDelta

A semi off topic comment but this reminded me of it. Mark Bingham, one of the men credited with stopping the terrorists on United flight 92 from crashing the plane into the Pentagon, was a member of my Alpha. I was looking over the room I'm moving into next semester in the Lodge, and found his name carved into the wall. The whole plane hijacking topic reminded me of it, sorry to do a hijacking of my own.

Thankfully nobody died with your hijacking....lol

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

And exactly how often does this happen?


How often have planes blown up in the past 50 years?

For that matter, can you say what is the ratio of actual bomb threats and racial makeup of those who are perceived as actually going thru with said threat?

I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that the majority of people who attempt bomb scares are our own non minority US citizens

and BTW...we are talking US hijackings....nice wikipedia source (not 100% reliable mind you) and I am going off the assumption you were talking about actually BLOWN UP planes.

So let's get this straight are you referring to actual BLOWN UP planes or simple hijackings...make it clear.

ETA: Furthermore, after looking over your wiki link hmmm we have

Lebanese, Egyptian, US citizens, Chinese, Indian, Ethiopian, Iranian, Filipino, Sri Lankan, Croatian, Cuban, German, Japanese and so on...

You know what that says, anybody can be a hijacker...

Why don't you find the accurate list of planes that have blown up?

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Why don't you find the accurate list of planes that have blown up?

Sweetie...that's not what we are talking about, please try to keep up.

Racial profiling in American airports is the topic...instead of getting frustrated, snarky and making asinine requests for stats....just talk...that's all...I know you are itching for any chance to put me down but damn, JUST TALK to the topic...


Now...as it is, to the topic, part of the problem with profiling in general is that as the public makes generalizations of a particular group overlooking their neighbors.

Thus the 'shock' when you have that 1 'aberration'.

For instance:

How many people were shocked:

- the Virginia Tech was Asian and not a white man?
- the Beltway sniper was black and not Middle Eastern?
- the Oklahoma bomber was a white male and not middle eastern?
- the anthrax attacker was also a white male and not middle eastern?

In some of these cases notably the last one, people play on the public's fears by making it look like another element 'commonly shown' to commit such acts.

ON another tangent but in the same ballpark, see Susan Smith and Charles Stuart.