I wonder if their computer had “randomly” picked a black person or a Latin-American person, if they would have ignored that pick and tried the computer again. The airline may have assumed that a white or Asian person has no rights—but would they have made the same assumption in the case of someone from one of the “protected classes”?
Well, I know this, the continent of Asia definitely thinks Asians should be protected so they are organizing a boycott of United. We’ll see how much that affects things. There are a lot of them, Asians.