Quote: (04-11-2017 03:27 PM)C-Note Wrote:
This story is starting to be part of the current culture wars. I'm noticing on social media that since it is coming out that this guy was gay, a bad doctor, and generally shady character, the SJWs are getting defensive about it. I see some good trolling opportunities ahead.
I'm a little surprised more people aren't drawing how this is tied directly to the current culture wars - even disregarding the guy's orientation or history, this is SJW fetishism that almost everyone in this thread is buying into?
When I saw this story blow up, I couldn't help but associate it with what else always happens: people being brazenly rude, disrespectful, and ignoring lawful orders; and when their actions are caught on photo or videos, get a shit-ton of virtue signalling done on their behalf online. So yeah, I draw a short line between this event, and the disrespect that SJWs show to authority or, as they would put it, white supremacist patriarchal cishet-normative power structures. And the massive social media pile-on leftists do against an organization they don't agree with.
Maybe I've grown far too authoritarian; but based on the system they had in place, he lost the lottery, he had to get out. When this guy refuses to leave, what are they supposed to do at this point?
"Well, this gentleman is refusing to leave, I guess we'll randomly select someone else"? Then you'd be incentivizing belligerent, disrespectful, and anti-authority behaviour. Follow the rules.
Also, for people saying "they should've kept upping what they offer" - there needs to be a limit, once word gets out that there's no limit to airplane offers nobody would ever take the first or second offer, defeating the entire purpose.
Ultimately United fucked themselves by boarding the entire plane before kicking people off, of course, but still: this story's blown up, and this guy is being made famous, for a situation of his creation - and I can't help but think of so many BLM protests and riots that resulted from situations of a person's own creation.
And guess what? Now this story has gone massive and everyone's mad. How many people are going to stir up shit, not just in this case but in other kinds of situations in the future? Rebel against that eeeevil corporation (or law enforcement entity!), kick up a huge fuss, cry and scream with no shame? Create a tense and possibly violent situation because they know it will go viral and they can leverage it for fame, maybe even a lawsuit and payout?
What happened to law and order, and respect for that law and order? Or even respect for your fellow man? 4 people being inconvenienced (and pretty well-compensated) so 80+ won't be due to a missed flight?
The CEO's original statement was right: the passenger was disruptive and belligerent, and of course he had to walk that statement back because of the world we live in. Society functions based off following the rules; I know this is a severely unpopular take, but I respect a normally-functioning society too much to really support someone that creates this kind of situation. I think. I'm probably a hypocrite or will be in the future but not aligned to the consensus on this case.