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Woman sees olive-skinned man doing math. Thinks it’s Arabic. So, he must be a terrorist.
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May 7th, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Clearly, WACIST!
Also, dumber than a box of hammers…..
May 7th, 2016 at 7:32 pm
Yeah, but they use that math stuff to make bombs, right?
May 7th, 2016 at 8:38 pm
So WaPo has to get the jab in at the end that anything to do with Trump or anyone who might consider the truth he tells is ignorant and paranoid. Endarkenment? Nah. Not really seeing her ethnic profiling to be so wrong, and those who may fit the profile should get used to it; beats the fuck out of blue-shirted boobies feeling up my grandmother or granddaughter in the interest of even-handed PC.
Certainly the airline’s and the TSA’s handling could have been better and way less intrusively inconvenient for the passengers. But I guess the math nerd should just be glad nobody had any poison arrows.
May 7th, 2016 at 9:50 pm
I suppose the DHS admonition, “if you see something, say something” needs a qualifier that what you say not violate what anyone may consider any PC rules.
May 8th, 2016 at 7:12 am
She is a product of an American education over the last 40 years; she wouldn’t know arabic from a quadratic equation even if it had been tattooed on her butt.
May 8th, 2016 at 9:09 am
Twilight Zone “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
Shatner played a mathematician.
Not Italian, though. Bill doesn’t do Italian.
Qualcosa…sull’ala…
May 8th, 2016 at 9:32 am
OMG he’s not a mathematician. He’s an economist and
“…his research has been focused on designing the optimal mechanism to redistribute income inequality caused by the presence of search frictions in the labor market.”
It really was a terrorist nightmare.
May 8th, 2016 at 12:01 pm
As far as math goes… It may as well be Arabic for most peeps.
May 8th, 2016 at 1:22 pm
If you see someone doing math say something? Yeah, the DHS warning needs a qualifier…anyone who thinks that someone writing equations is somehow suspicious is a moron.
May 8th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
Contradictory advice from the government, with punishment for those who dare follow any of it?
Where have I heard this happening before?
Is ATF exporting its own special brand of annoyingly stupid to other government agencies, or are they coming up with the same stupid in a horrible sort of convergent evolution of the bureaucracy?
May 8th, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Remember the recruit testing scene in Men In Black? The girl with the physics textbooks that he shot?
Think about it.
May 8th, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Now if you look over at your neighbor’s open garage and he’s cleaning an EBR, then that is a reason to call and report a possible terror suspect.
May 8th, 2016 at 6:13 pm
Math is dangerous.
May 8th, 2016 at 7:29 pm
Idiot.
May 8th, 2016 at 8:26 pm
I was once terrorized by a semester of Integral Calculus , so it is possible .
May 8th, 2016 at 9:54 pm
>Math is dangerous.
After all, it is largely done nowadays with Arabic numbers. /s
May 8th, 2016 at 9:55 pm
We must bring back Roman numerals, or the terrorists will have won.
May 9th, 2016 at 2:15 pm
I suppose the DHS admonition, “if you see something, say something” needs a qualifier that what you say not violate what anyone may consider any PC rules.
“Guy with sort of darkish skin doing math” (or even “actually writing in Arabic”) is not something.
“Something” here means, well, something actually rationally connected to a threat.
There’s no “PC” issue here – the issue is the guy wasn’t doing anything a sane person should consider a threat.
May 9th, 2016 at 3:25 pm
“…anything a sane person should consider a threat.”
As the arbiter of threats and sanity, what are your examples?
May 9th, 2016 at 7:43 pm
It’s the well-dressed, well-groomed, super nice guy chatting wittily next to you in perfect English, making you feel all at ease; you should take him down right away. That mother fucker is up to something for sure.
May 10th, 2016 at 8:29 am
@Sigivald, Your emphasis on the actual wording is appreciated and your point well made. I was just rehearsing what THEY SAY, that is, the Dept of Homeland Security. Oh yes, they’re keeping us safe, uh huh.