Bob Collins
Lindsay Gottlieb, a basketball coach at Cal, said Southwest Airlines didn’t think it was good enough when she showed her son’s passport to the gate agent, she said in a series of tweets. Her son is biracial. Read more →
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Tag: Southwest Airlines
Here’s an idea. If you’re uncomfortable with someone speaking Arabic on an airplane, maybe you should get off. Read more →
The fact that a pizza shop owner was pulled from a flight at Midway Airport in Chicago because he was speaking Arabic, and that made another passenger nervous, isn’t even the most surprising thing about the incident this week. We’ve heard it before and it’s hardly surprising that we haven’t evolved.
It’s the utter lack of logical thought that goes with the utter lack of logical thought.
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A Minneapolis man and his two kids were thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday because he tweeted his displeasure that the two kids weren’t allowed to “priority board” with him. “In leaving I said, you know, ‘Real nice way to treat an A-list. I’ll be sure to tweet about Read more →