Thursday, December 22, 2016

Delta Airline

  1. This whole Delta Airlines b/s reminds me of public school in rural Idaho when teachers used to tell me as a child: Well they wouldn't treat you like a faggot if you didn't act like one. Or a police officer telling me that I can't be raped because I was a prostitute as a teenager.
  2. Kicking someone off a plane because they spoke a different language is racist. Trying to put someone in their place by forcing them to assimilate to the culture around them is ethnocentric and not a...n American value. Sanctioning someone for speaking in a different language than your own is discrimination.
  3. Equally expecting someone to remain calm, when they're being targeted for an assigned stigma you hold about someone else's culture, speaks to the level of privilege you hold over someone who is actually being victimized. I want you to know that I see you sticking up for Delta. I see you treating the victim as inferior.
  4. I see you. You disgust me.