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In reply to the discussion: Story about 69 year old Dr. David Dao; the man United dragged off the plane [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)Should the passengers have held out for $10,000 or more of compensation? That would simply make the passengers turn on one another for the additional delay.
I questioned his authenticity because everyone kept bringing up the fact that he was a doctor and no doubt had desperate patients he needed to serve. Right from the start, these enormous assumptions were made.
And now? Now this is all evidence of fascism, class warfare, racism, corportocracy, authoritarianism, and on and on and on. I expect to see a Nazi reference soon.
When all this really was about was a passenger who refused to get off the plane. He is Vietnamese and he's on probation, which may explain his reluctance to go with police, but we have a somewhat fuller picture today than we did yesterday.
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