Posted on 05/07/2016 9:46:45 AM PDT by Republic_Venom
On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse.
Or so dozens of unsuspecting passengers thought.
The curly-haired man tried to keep to himself, intently if inscrutably scribbling on a notepad he’d brought aboard. His seatmate, a blond-haired, 30-something woman sporting flip-flops and a red tote bag, looked him over. He was wearing navy Diesel jeans and a red Lacoste sweater – a look he would later describe as “simple elegance” – but something about him didn’t seem right to her.
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The dumbing down of America continues terribly.
Let me guess — useless “math” for his useless marxist economics.
The goal of the article is to enable terrorists, even if this apparent Italian is not one. They want us to be afraid to mention anything.
Because we look forward to ridiculing you for your bigotry toward foreigners.
I always do math on flights...
I carry a cheap book of Suduko with me...
Obligatory shot at Trump in last paragraph.
I guess it’s better to be sorry than safe and labeled an eeeeevil racist for profiling someone.
Y’know - I had a lot of sympathy for this guy until the last quote:
“Rising xenophobia stoked by the presidential campaign, he suggested, may soon make things worse for people who happen to look a little other-ish.
“What might prevent an epidemic of paranoia? It is hard not to recognize in this incident, the ethos of [Donald] Trump’s voting base,” he wrote.”
If anything I’d brand her as an SJW following Obama’s edicts and triggered by your very own xenophobia, hatred and bigotry because she doesn’t look like you.
Blaming Trump for paranoia cultivated by Obama is itself a form of paranoia. The Post is a screaming rant of malice and hatred.
Me too. I find that the airplane atmosphere is just not conducive to deriving complicated logarithmic functions.
The crap from the journalist is that last paragraph were they blame Trump for it. The Journalist is as bad as the lady in the story. An unfounded conclusion by an idiot.
The most disturbing aspect of this story is that the Captain looked at the paper and did not know enough about math, to know it was math.
probably Al-Gebra using weapons of math instruction
She gives blondes a bad name......what a ditz. Italian not Mideastern. Math not Arabic. Delays everyone for two hours over a college professor intent on his math problem. Clueless and stupid does not begin to explain the ditz who caused all this.
Obligatory shot at Trump in last paragraph.
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Trumpophobia.
It’s not OK to be on the lookout for terrorists but it is OK to mock the people who want to make America great again.
He’s an award winning Ivy League economist. They’ve done more damage than the 911 terrorists.
The article was incredibly snarky and the comments ridiculously liberal and cruel. The upshot? The next person will ignore his or her feelings and another terrorist attack will occur.
Ever see a mathematician’s handwriting??
What not Bush’fault anymore? Trump’s fault!
And so it begins ...
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