You heard the one from a week or so ago where the passengers on a plane didn't like the colour of the skin of a couple of fellows who got on, so they all walked off and the flight was cancelled and the two were taken in and asked if they were planning to blow the plane up, yes?
One of the choice quotes from a scared passenger on that one was that it was all very civilised, no one yelled names or anything, they all just got off. Right. Because it's only racist if you're rude about it.
I had heard that because they were talking Urdu (ie a language that the other passengers couldn't understand), they thought they might be terrorists.
Although I think that being made to remove an "offensive" t-shirt is worse, since it was undertaken by people in authority. I kind of expect people-in-the-street to be ignorant, but I would hope that security guards at an airport had some kind of better behaviour.
rparvaaz has pointed out this article about some Indian citizens who were arrested on a flight from Amsterdam (http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=313649&rel_no=1&back_url=).
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Date: 2006-08-30 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-30 03:52 pm (UTC)One of the choice quotes from a scared passenger on that one was that it was all very civilised, no one yelled names or anything, they all just got off. Right. Because it's only racist if you're rude about it.
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Date: 2006-08-30 04:03 pm (UTC)I had heard that because they were talking Urdu (ie a language that the other passengers couldn't understand), they thought they might be terrorists.
Although I think that being made to remove an "offensive" t-shirt is worse, since it was undertaken by people in authority. I kind of expect people-in-the-street to be ignorant, but I would hope that security guards at an airport had some kind of better behaviour.