[Republic_Venom]

I'm going to start doing math on the flight from now on. This is beyond stupid.

[CodeToad]

The dumbing down of America continues terribly.

[sagar]

Let me guess — useless “math” for his useless marxist economics.

[PghBaldy]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

“If you see something, say something.”

Because we look forward to ridiculing you for your bigotry toward foreigners.

[Tennessee Nana]

I always do math on flights...

I carry a cheap book of Suduko with me...

[Drango]

Obligatory shot at Trump in last paragraph.

[NYRepublican72]

I guess it’s better to be sorry than safe and labeled an eeeeevil racist for profiling someone.

[Skywise]

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.

[poinq]

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.

[Timpanagos1]

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.

[thoughtomator]

probably Al-Gebra using weapons of math instruction

[tioga]

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.

[miss marmelstein]

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.

[frithguild]

What not Bush’fault anymore? Trump’s fault!

And so it begins ...

[nascarnation]

[ruination]

The author is a Jewish millennial who inherited hostility toward WASP America from her parents.

[Albion Wilde]

Menzio... says he was “treated respectfully throughout,” though he remains baffled... by a “broken system that does not collect information efficiently"...as well as “a security protocol that is too rigid—once the whistle is blown everything stops without checks—and relies on the input of people who may be completely clueless. ”

But she was blonde. That should have alerted authorities to cluelessness right there.

[BlackAdderess]

That’s pretty embarrassing...

[Rome2000]

This is why I never talk to anybody on airplanes, and I fly two, three times a week.

Thank God for noise canceling headphones and a tablet full of TV shows.

I have a flight simulator program that I was using one day and one of the other passengers actually asked me if that was our plane that I was flying.

[chuckee]

The lady’s chain of thought:

7 + 2 = 9 Terrorist math
Seven plus two = Nine Not a terrorist math