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Jury: Airline not racist
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Posted on 02/13/2006 11:51:51 AM PST by SmoothTalker

"A jury on Friday said Southwest Airlines did not racially discriminate against an overweight passenger when she was asked to buy a second seat on her flight."

"The jury deliberated for a little over an hour before finding against Nadine Thompson, who sued Southwest in federal court. She claimed that she was singled out because she is black and that the airline’s "customer of size" policy was unfairly applied to her after she boarded a flight at Manchester Airport in June 2003."

" Southwest’s policy states that a "customer of size" is someone who can’t sit in a seat without having the armrest raised and is sitting on part of the adjacent seat. Thompson, who said she doesn’t consider herself a customer of size, didn’t challenge the policy; rather, she claimed, it allows any random employee to operate "in a discriminatory way about that policy." "

"Joel Drake, a Southwest employee, testified earlier Friday that Thompson accused him of being a "motherf--- racist pig" and wished that his family would die from cancer when he tried to explain the company’s policy to her."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; bigfatmama; choosesalad; fat; food; fork; hollottawoman; lawsuit; obesity; passengerofsize; racistfatpig; ruling; southwest; southwestairlines; xxl
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To: mewzilla

He does it because he's a fanatic and wants to kill all infidels, not because he's fat.


101 posted on 02/13/2006 1:26:48 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: mewzilla

LOL


102 posted on 02/13/2006 1:27:55 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
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To: pbrown

No, we don't. We're too busy eating. :)

(5'11", 260...I think I'd only have to buy one seat on Southwest, but I've never flown on a 737 so I'm not sure. I fit in the crappy seats on an Airtran 717 OK.)

}:-)4


103 posted on 02/13/2006 1:28:17 PM PST by Moose4 ("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
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To: pbrown
He does it because he's a fanatic and wants to kill all infidels, not because he's fat.

True, but not what you said before :)

You said:

Fat people don't run around sawing off peoples heads, and wanting to kill everyone who isn't fat.

And I just pointed out that al Sadr does :)

104 posted on 02/13/2006 1:30:09 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: pbrown

No, but Muslims do get offended at what the rest of the world finds funny, which is my point. Don't be disingenuous.


105 posted on 02/13/2006 1:30:20 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: mewzilla; pbrown

But al Sadr wouldn't mind killing skinny infidels, too, so I guess we're both right :)


106 posted on 02/13/2006 1:31:55 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
Please, do you see how ridiculous your statement is? You named one FAT man, name tens of millions of FAT people that want to saw off heads.
107 posted on 02/13/2006 1:33:12 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: Moose4

Fear of heights and enclosed places keeps me from flying.


108 posted on 02/13/2006 1:34:14 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: pbrown
Please, do you see how ridiculous your statement is? You named one FAT man, name tens of millions of FAT people that want to saw off heads.

Well, technically you said fat people, so I don't really need to name millions, just more than one. So....How about the little wart that runs North Korea, Kim Jong Il? I'd say he fits (har, har) the bill, with the proviso that he'll happily kill skinny and fat alike, of course :)

109 posted on 02/13/2006 1:36:43 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: pbrown

But then there's the sawing off the heads aspect, that's true...Kim would just as soon nuke 'em. Oh, never mind. You win :)


110 posted on 02/13/2006 1:38:17 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Is "cow" or "sow" more politically correct?

Heifer is appropriate if one is young, unmarried and childless.

Cow is appropriate for those older singles and those married but without children.

Sow is appropriate when one has children in tow.

111 posted on 02/13/2006 1:42:36 PM PST by Freebird Forever (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice.)
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To: from occupied ga



Next time you fly, try to be the last person to board. As you walk through first class see if there are any empty seats. If so, and you are seated next to a fat person, just walk to the front and in a calm but firm voice, explain the situation to the flight attendant. Tell him/her that you do not want to make a scene but you just can't fit in the seat.

It is an unwritten policy of most airlines that they would rather give you a first class seat rather than have a confrontation.

Works every time.


112 posted on 02/13/2006 1:43:16 PM PST by babydoll22 (If you stop growing as a person you live in your own private hell.)
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To: EagleUSA; 6SJ7

You have to distribute the 'persons of size' evenly front to rear and side to side. Or just have a couple of La-A-Boy couches right over the CG so there will be a place to put them without being sued or called a racist pig. Price those couch seats at a premium, baby...you gotta pay for all that fuel somehow. I can see it now...a metal gate at the boarding ramp about 18" wide...if you can't get through it, you ride 'couch'.


113 posted on 02/13/2006 1:46:04 PM PST by Sender (As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions. Be without form. -Sun Tzu)
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To: Freebird Forever

I appreciate the clarification..


114 posted on 02/13/2006 1:50:25 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: SmoothTalker
Southwest’s policy states that a "customer of size" is someone who can’t sit in a seat without having the armrest raised and is sitting on part of the adjacent seat.

"Customer of size"..........I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

115 posted on 02/13/2006 1:54:19 PM PST by Godebert
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To: Xenalyte
This isn't about muslims. Trying to changing horses in the middle of the stream won't play.

Have you even read all the comments on this thread?

116 posted on 02/13/2006 1:55:05 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: SmoothTalker

The "Flatuance Factor" would be bitch.


117 posted on 02/13/2006 1:55:25 PM PST by hdstmf (too)
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To: mewzilla

As long as he gets to kill somebody...anybody, he's happy I guess.


118 posted on 02/13/2006 1:56:23 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: pbrown

Yes, and I've also said that as a fat woman I don't have a problem with them.

It's called an analogy, by the way. An example, if you will, not an exact parallel.


119 posted on 02/13/2006 1:58:10 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: EagleUSA

"Now, all you fat hogs to the BACK OF THE AIRPLANE!!!! "


No way! Airplanes have a genter of gravity they must pay attention to!


120 posted on 02/13/2006 1:58:58 PM PST by CodeToad
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