The bolded parts are what caught my attention. Why couldn't you simply keep your mouth shut, at least during the designated boarding period, about wanting to move to a seat to which you were not assigned and to which you had no entitlement? Do you really not understand why the attendant was not being impolite by not telling you, "Yes, you can sit here, but you need to move if anyone comes"?
I doubt very much that your apparent sense of entitlement, or at least your sense of what a "polite" attendant might have told you, has much of anything to do with "white privilege." But it certainly does seem to arise from a sense of entitlement about what a rather low-level employee is both allowed and can reasonably be expected to say to yet another modestly disruptive customer who wants the rules to be bent a bit to accommodate him.
There’s now a thread about her on the Flyertalk message boards, and the response was ‘no, we do not know who your are, other than the person who held up a flight for no reason.’ And in general roasting her pretty hard.
There was plenty of criticism directed at the Tinman white boys. Social media focused rather than athletic. I see Richardson doing the same thing. Just run, no one in Jamaica really cares about your social media persona.
All the same people who were self professed experts on the Bell Curve now suddenly deeply invested in the sanctity of pedestrian traffic laws.
Seems as though you're the one falsely claiming to be an expert on "the Bell Curve" (obviously referring to the book by Herrnstein and Murray, not the common term for some Gaussian distribution used in the fields of probability and statistics). I had no familiarity with either Richardson or Griner until they were separately busted for violating governing drug regulations or laws, and my own anger about their cases had to do with efforts (in Griner's case, successful efforts) to give them a pass on the consequent punishment based on a combination of (1) the special treatment to which even marginally well-known athletes are accorded in the U.S., (2) widespread views in the U.S. about existing laws and regulations governing marijuana and cannabis products, (3) apparently spurious claims of racial discrimination, and (4) in the case of Griner, apparently spurious or unsupported claims (specifically made by President Biden and many others) that the criminal proceedings (including, in particular, the initial airport search and subsequent detention and criminal charges) were politically motivated.
Regarding Richardson, I seem to recall that voices from letsrun.com supported her inclusion and participation on the U.S. Olympic team at the expense of others (and in violation of governing rules), largely based on (1) her somewhat overrated sprinting ability and value to U.S. interests and (2) the perception that WADA and USADA regulations regarding in-competition limitations on cannabis metabolites are inappropriate, despite overwhelming support for such limitations throughout the world and the illegality of marijuana and cannabis possession and use in almost every country (including the U.S.). Richardson seems to have benefited from more general public outcries about racial discrimination, and apparently she and others are once again willing to excuse her behavior or criticize her treatment on similar grounds now.
Regarding the observations of others that Richardson gets more attention than individuals like Mu and McLaughlin, that's to be expected -- criminals and miscreants tend to get more attention than law-abiding and well-behaved persons, regardless of race. I do agree, however, that the time and energy devoted to defenses of or excuses for the conduct of someone like Richardson are peculiarly harmful within the ongoing discourse in this country about matters of race, and that exemplars like Mu and McLaughlin provide some counterweight to what one poster referred to as "the soft bigotry of low expectations."
PS. It's amazing how amped up people are on flights, including yours truly. I almost cried when a flight attendant let me move to an open row a few months ago.
Here is the back story. I was pretty sure I was the last person on the flight and wanted to sit an empty row and asked the flight attendant. He seemed to have no sympathy and told me the flight had not stopped boarding officially. I told him it was done as they were closing the door when I got on but he kept telling me to go to my seat. I was PISSED as I knew I was the last person on almost certainly. A few minutes later, though, he sought me out and said, "Sir, the flight has stopped boarding. You canmove now."
I don't know why he hadn't been polite at first and just said, "I can't officially let you sit here now but if not one comes, you can come back. Or, 'yes you can sit here' but you need to move if anyone comes."
But in the end he treated me well.
As a a white male, I know he wasn't racist or sexist. ShaCarri doesn't know that. And that is what I think is a) white privilege and b) what's wrong with modern society. People are taught to assume stuff is racist/sexist when the reality is flight attendants are often just as annoyed as we are on flights.
Please don’t post on this message board. K thanks!
so you thought it was a worthy cause to to spend your time to argue in favor keeping an American in prison in an undemocratic, corrupt, hostile and belligerent nation for 9 years for the equivalent of a misdemeanor?
Because of ...you know....the principle of it all.
There’s now a thread about her on the Flyertalk message boards, and the response was ‘no, we do not know who your are, other than the person who held up a flight for no reason.’ And in general roasting her pretty hard.
There’s now a thread about her on the Flyertalk message boards, and the response was ‘no, we do not know who your are, other than the person who held up a flight for no reason.’ And in general roasting her pretty hard.
No sympathy there.
Why would a hockey message board care about this?
the same reason a running message board is obsessed with britany griner
1) When did I ever say it wasn't racist? I NEVER said that. Perhaps my email wasn't the most well written - it came at 12:30 in the morning after a long day. I was just saying I know generally when bad things happen to me it's not the result of racism and that's privilege. I was trying to express symaphty to a little extent to ShaCarri as I almost went off on the flight attendant myself but decided to check myself.
rojo: "b) what's wrong with modern society. People are taught to assume stuff is racist/sexist when the reality is flight attendants are often just as annoyed as we are on flights."
If you don't understand what you are implying there you need to consider your vocation as a writer.
You are clearly trivializing the issue of racism in America by saying that the REAL problem, 'what's wrong with modern society', is people imagining racism.
To use your experience as a white male as evidence of this is comical.
You are making an equivalent error to the one you are accusing Sha'Carri of. You are accusing her of seeing racism where it doesn't exist. Your stance requires one to pretend racism doesn't exist when it in fact does.
so you thought it was a worthy cause to to spend your time to argue in favor keeping an American in prison in an undemocratic, corrupt, hostile and belligerent nation for 9 years for the equivalent of a misdemeanor?
I didn't spend any time arguing in favor of "keeping" an American in a Russian prison for a long time based on what you describe as "the equivalent of a misdemeanor." I did express my anger about the asserted bases for the successful efforts to give an American citizen (and primarily Russian athlete) a pass on punishment for violating governing law, including outright lies by the U.S. government about the factual circumstances of her case. I chose not to discuss a number of other matters relating to Griner's case, including the means by which the U.S. secured her release from prison, which required the release and return to Russia of the arms dealer known as "the Merchant of Death," at a time when Russia is specifically seeking to negotiate for and purchase foreign weapons with which to kill thousands of Ukrainians and take over their country.
There’s now a thread about her on the Flyertalk message boards, and the response was ‘no, we do not know who your are, other than the person who held up a flight for no reason.’ And in general roasting her pretty hard.
No sympathy there.
Why would a hockey message board care about this?
Flyertalk and not Flyerstalk. Flyertalk is a message board for frequent flyers, frequent travelers and travel hackers that’s been around since 1998.
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It's amazing how amped up people are on flights, including yours truly. I almost cried when a flight attendant let me move to an open row a few months ago.
Here is the back story. I was pretty sure I was the last person on the flight and wanted to sit an empty row and asked the flight attendant. He seemed to have no sympathy and told me the flight had not stopped boarding officially. I told him it was done as they were closing the door when I got on but he kept telling me to go to my seat. I was PISSED as I knew I was the last person on almost certainly. A few minutes later, though, he sought me out and said, "Sir, the flight has stopped boarding. You canmove now."
I don't know why he hadn't been polite at first and just said, "I can't officially let you sit here now but if not one comes, you can come back. Or, 'yes you can sit here' but you need to move if anyone comes."
But in the end he treated me well.
As a a white male, I know he wasn't racist or sexist. ShaCarri doesn't know that. And that is what I think is a) white privilege and b) what's wrong with modern society. People are taught to assume stuff is racist/sexist when the reality is flight attendants are often just as annoyed as we are on flights.
Thing is, he didn't know that. The amount of BS and inaccurate information they're given each day by passengers is going to be off the chart, plus people lying to get their own way as well. Passengers will say all kinds of things, make things up. If he had moved you and then you weren't the last person on that's going to cause problems. Or maybe there was something else going on, some information we're not privy to. So simply better to wait a few minutes until the door is locked and then move someone. And the reason why he didn't say what you mentioned is that had people come in, for all he knows you could've kicked off saying "but Mr flight attendant TOLD me I could go and sit in an empty row, he said... etc". It complicates the situation needlessly. These people go through these scenarios day in, day out. He was most likely doing what works and causes the least drama. Wait a few minutes until all is settled, then move you. Making promises to people in that situation isn't a good idea.
RE SC's situation:
It's flying. It's a plane. At the end of the day you sit down and shut up while they're doing that presentation. They don't want to be doing it. You don't film videos during safety presentations. It's rude aside from anything else, speaking of people being rude. You switch your phone off when you get on the plane. Or when they tell you to. Everyone does. Otherwise we would have people using cell phones during take off and throughout the entire flight. They have this rule and they can't keep altering it just because someone wants to do something else. You don't try to make exceptions to these rules, it doesn't matter how special you are. It doesn't matter who you are, if you can buy a plane. If the Queen of England had sat down in that seat she would have to switch her phone off. She's mentioning stuff that is completely irrelevant. Also, I doubt whoever was doing the safety presentation wanted that to be disrupted. She shouldn't film during a safety presentation, end of story. I would actually expect someone to be rude to me if I was doing that and disrupting things, then if I was asked to stop and then I carried on. There is too much pandering to people these days. I really feel for people working in the service industry face to face with customers. They get treated like shiit. You only have to spend five minutes in McDonalds to see it. People are vile to them..
This situation never should have happened. She gets on, doesn't film. Problem solved. Or "can you stop filming?" ... "OK". End of problem.
I've never gotten kicked off a flight before. But I also don't immediately ask to move to a different seat when I get on the plane, I don't talk on the phone when I know we're about to take off and phones need to be put on airplane mode. I don't talk back to flight attendants when they tell me something. I don't argue with other passengers. I don't record a flight attendant and talk crap about them on the video when I'm not happy with them. I don't escalate bad situations to make them worse.
I've never gotten kicked off a flight before. But I also don't immediately ask to move to a different seat when I get on the plane, I don't talk on the phone when I know we're about to take off and phones need to be put on airplane mode. I don't talk back to flight attendants when they tell me something. I don't argue with other passengers. I don't record a flight attendant and talk crap about them on the video when I'm not happy with them. I don't escalate bad situations to make them worse.