YouTube star Adam Saleh's Arabic discrimination accusation against Delta airlines
12-21-2016, 10:10 AM
This story. The knee jerk thought when I saw the video is that this kid is a little bitch.
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It's an unfortunate situation. I get that he's mad, and I get that Delta pulled him from that flight.
- He was checked for 30 minutes and they put him on another flight. Nobody likes to be delayed, but that doesn't seem that terrible. We've all had delays, many times much longer than an hour or two. I've had to wait overnight for a flight. It's not ideal, but if this is representative of the evils of U.S. and Western civilization, it doesn't seem that bad.
- He's being a little bitch, just because Delta doesn't feel comfortable without further precautions to check him. I can't see myself appealing to the crowd for justice, certainly in a moment like this. If I were being led to the guillotine. I could see, in a very last ditch effort, to appeal to the crowd. But not getting booted off a plane, for an understandable, albeit not ideal, situation.
- Is this just another example of giving young millenials a microphone to attention-whore? Have there always been little bitches like him, but now with technology they have the means for us to see it?
- He's mad at the people who felt uncomfortable. I get that. But I don't get calling them out in the moment, on camera, with the audience he has. If somebody pisses me off and inconveniences me, I might be mad, but I'm not going to try and ruin their life. I might even want to punch them, but I don't think they're "evil" because they were stupid/inconsiderate/ageist/sexist/bigot (make no mistake, he thinks they're evil).
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Delta responds to YouTube star Adam Saleh's Arabic discrimination accusation
Delta Air Lines responded Wednesday to accusations from a YouTube star that he was kicked off a flight because he spoke Arabic to his mom on the phone before takeoff.
In a statement, Delta said: “Two customers were removed from this flight and later rebooked after a disturbance in the cabin resulted in more than 20 customers expressing their discomfort. We’re conducting a full review to understand what transpired. We are taking allegations of discrimination very seriously; our culture requires treating others with respect.”
Delta was responding to a series of widely circulated tweets by Adam Saleh, who has over 1.6 million subscribers to his TrueStoryASA YouTube channel, and over 2.2 million subscribers to his Adam Saleh Vlogs YouTube channel. Saleh’s YouTube channels are full of prank videos as well as videos about Muslim life, and he is a self-described “professional idiot.”
In one video posted to Twitter that was retweeted 83,000 times in just 2 hours, Saleh can be seen getting escorted off the plane.
As he is slowly walking down the aisle of the jet, Saleh says he is being kicked off for “speaking a different language.” He said he was just innocently talking to his mother when “white” people around him began complaining about his use of Arabic. This led to a handful of Delta personnel asking Saleh to leave the flight.
In the video, some passengers can be seen telling the apparent Delta employees that they did not want Saleh removed, while others can be seen waving and saying “bye” as he walks away.
It is not clear in which city the incident took place, although according to Saleh’s social media accounts, he was on his way from Australia to New York.
He later tweeted that police and security officials interviewed him and the other person kicked off the flight multiple times.
Saleh later said he got on a flight to New York with a different airline after being “checked” for 30 minutes.
After the incident, a #boycottDelta hashtag began trending on Twitter.
It's an unfortunate situation. I get that he's mad, and I get that Delta pulled him from that flight.
- He was checked for 30 minutes and they put him on another flight. Nobody likes to be delayed, but that doesn't seem that terrible. We've all had delays, many times much longer than an hour or two. I've had to wait overnight for a flight. It's not ideal, but if this is representative of the evils of U.S. and Western civilization, it doesn't seem that bad.
- He's being a little bitch, just because Delta doesn't feel comfortable without further precautions to check him. I can't see myself appealing to the crowd for justice, certainly in a moment like this. If I were being led to the guillotine. I could see, in a very last ditch effort, to appeal to the crowd. But not getting booted off a plane, for an understandable, albeit not ideal, situation.
- Is this just another example of giving young millenials a microphone to attention-whore? Have there always been little bitches like him, but now with technology they have the means for us to see it?
- He's mad at the people who felt uncomfortable. I get that. But I don't get calling them out in the moment, on camera, with the audience he has. If somebody pisses me off and inconveniences me, I might be mad, but I'm not going to try and ruin their life. I might even want to punch them, but I don't think they're "evil" because they were stupid/inconsiderate/ageist/sexist/bigot (make no mistake, he thinks they're evil).
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