Youtuber kicked off Delta airplane. Update on Page 21.

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1 hour ago, River said:

Yes sure! the fact that I'm a dark skin person is having a huge impact on how people see me and treat me.. if I'm not shaving for example, I start to see the fear of the people and I don't even grow the facial hair how it suppose to be in Islam lol but people are scared anyway..

I even tried to dress like a typical French (live in France atm) and it didn't help at all..

It's so bad that I'm unemployed for 2 years already..

Funny fact: I went to the Israeli film festival in Nice 2 years ago, I was the only one that they did a full check on, at the end of the check they asked for my passport and they saw Israel.. they apologized immediately  

This is horrible! It's no one's right to discriminate like this. I feel very sorry for you

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3 minutes ago, Saint Laurent said:

I personally don't buy into the ridiculous accusation that somebody is 'racist' because they are uncomfortable with somebody on a aeroplane speaking Arabic,

 

How is that not racism? 

These people cannot even tell a difference between Arabic, Urdu, Farsi or Swahili. In some cases even Hebrew. If it's normal to you that every Arabic speaker is connected to terrorism, then every white male should be suspected to be a school shooter? 

 

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1 hour ago, MonsterPaws said:

After this I don't think I'll ever speak Arabic in public again. This is terrible, like what the actual f**k is wrong with people.

And the fact that nobody even stood up to say something (except for that one guy), and just started waving 'bye'. I'm starting to hate white Americans at this point .

 

You shouldn't let the racist people win. This should not become acceptable. 

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15 minutes ago, Saint Laurent said:

Obviously this is wrong, but I personally don't buy into the ridiculous accusation that somebody is 'racist' because they are uncomfortable with somebody on a aeroplane speaking Arabic, a language synonymous (perhaps unjustifiably) with terrorism.

Especially given the recent terror events.

Nevertheless, hope he sues them and gets a nice little pay off.

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1 hour ago, MarryTheKnight said:

See I think it's less about language and sadly more about whiteness.

I am half Jewish and speak hebrew, but all my grandparents came from Eastern Europe so I look white.

I don't feel scared to speak Hebrew in public despite it being a Semitic language because people can clearly see my family and myself are white. It's a sad, tragic world we live in. 

One flight I took from london to toronto there was a security delay on my plane because a white passenger reported that a Muslim mother was giving her children pills (I am assuming it was Gravol or something common) but that dumb white broad thought they we're suicide pills or some ****. And that really rattled me because if the mother were white and her kids were white, people would note have even taken notice. 

 

1 hour ago, River said:

Yes sure! the fact that I'm a dark skin person is having a huge impact on how people see me and treat me.. if I'm not shaving for example, I start to see the fear of the people and I don't even grow the facial hair how it suppose to be in Islam lol but people are scared anyway..

I even tried to dress like a typical French (live in France atm) and it didn't help at all..

It's so bad that I'm unemployed for 2 years already..

Funny fact: I went to the Israeli film festival in Nice 2 years ago, I was the only one that they did a full check on, at the end of the check they asked for my passport and they saw Israel.. they apologized immediately  

 

2 hours ago, River said:

And this is why I speak only in English during flights.. I know I speak Hebrew but it's not that different than Arabic, same sounds and same hysterical faces from people.. it's just scary not to be a white American/European right now.. at any moment someone can treat you like ****..

Well and very often I say Yalla and other Arabic words lol it's really part of me and my Iraqi origins that I love to show up lol

 

 

 

Just compare these stories and tell me how it's not racism @Saint Laurent 

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Just now, Joanne Angelina said:

 

I just saw that, perhaps lol

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1 minute ago, lego said:

 

How is that not racism? 

These people cannot even tell a difference between Arabic, Urdu, Farsi or Swahili. In some cases even Hebrew. If it's normal to you that every Arabic speaker is connected to terrorism, then every white male should be suspected to be a school shooter? 

 

I personally do not think it's racism because they are simply expressing a discomfort, a discomfort which I understand and that is totally reasonable at the moment, rather than being purposefully discriminatory. Then again, I've never experienced racism to fully understand it, nor do I know the full details of what happened in this situation.

I'm merely trying to say that I don't think it's racist that a large majority of people are experiencing a certain level of discomfort as to the languages commonly associated with terrorism. 

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I did notice cheers at the end though, which, with context, would sway me to believe that this was an act of racism, rather than a genuine and understandable discomfort

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2 minutes ago, Joanne Angelina said:

I say perhaps because it is a fact that some of the terrorist organisations do speak Arabic, but then again they also speak English, French etc. which is why I'm not certain as to whether it's justifiable.

What we can be certain of though, is that the media does try to tell us that a large number of terrorists are Arabic speaking. I don't think we can blame people for believing that, can we?

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4 minutes ago, Saint Laurent said:

large majority of people are experiencing a certain level of discomfort as to the languages commonly associated with terrorism. 

 

Large majority.... terrorism doesn't have  a language. Any educated non-bigoted person wouldn't complain about someone using their mother tongue, unless there is serious suspicion of something sinister happening. 

People have been discriminated against on Delta before. 

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Just now, lego said:

 

Large majority.... terrorism doesn't a language. Any educated non-bigoted person wouldn't complain about someone using their mother tongue, unless there is serious suspicion of something sinister happening. 

People have been discriminated against on Delta before. 

Correct, but terrorism is portrayed as most definitely having a language. That language is Arabic and it's understandable why people believe that.

Ok well I'm not personally aware of that, as a British person I'm not even aware of the airline so I'm just giving judgement based on what has been presented to me, which is a short clip with no context.

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24 minutes ago, Saint Laurent said:

Obviously this is wrong, but I personally don't buy into the ridiculous accusation that somebody is 'racist' because they are uncomfortable with somebody on a aeroplane speaking Arabic, a language synonymous (perhaps unjustifiably) with terrorism.

Especially given the recent terror events.

Nevertheless, hope he sues them and gets a nice little pay off.

wut

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I don't think it's always racism, it's probably more fear then anything else. I don't say it's okay, but with all the things happening around the world, people are just scared.

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شراميط...

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Just now, Adam Shams said:

شراميط...

Indeed

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1 minute ago, MonsterPaws said:

wut

So you don't think that people believe Arabic is a language synonymous with terrorism?