You might be surprised to learn you can be booted off a flight for your attire, hygiene or odor.
Nah, this is stupid.
It’s a fucking t-shirt. It’s not a threat. I don’t care what’s written on it.
It’s a fucking t-shirt. It’s not a threat. I don’t care what’s written on it.
- “can you put it on a t-shirt” was a specific point in the DeCSS “free speech” case
- thus, hate on a shirt is hate speech
- everything this icon stands for is hate in some form
you should see what they do to brown people at airports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_racial_profiling_in_the_United_States
A traveler can be removed when their: “conduct, attire, hygiene or odor creates an unreasonable risk of offense or annoyance to other passengers.”
I mean, i have no sympathy from Trump or his supporters but… seriously? Your odor offends me, i want you out of the airplane… 'Muricaaaaaa! Land of the free…
In all seriousness, you underestimate how badly some people let themselves stink.
The government isn’t the one kicking people off, it’s a private for-profit business. If you stink up an entire airplane then yes dude, you need to take your ass home and get in the shower. Why should 100 people be forced to deal with your poor hygiene and lack of common decency? If it’s B.O. because of a legitimate health issue then that’s one thing, but it almost never is. Lazy, gross-ass, motherfuckers.
Should we have no standard for how much you’re allowed to reek on a flight?
The amount of reek would have to be astronomical… if all passengers in the vicinity couldn’t bear the smell, i guess… but what if you have a condition that makes you reek?
Please tell me the condition that makes you reek? The bullshit condition?
If it’s a medical condition that produces a stench that showering, perfumes and bandages cannot cover up then you’d have to request special accommodation and book a row to yourself.
Not many can stand a guy on a flight with them looking at people trying to start a fight all the time, so it’s in that same category of astronomical annoyance.
This article is awful. It keeps asking the same question, “If a shirt is over the line, what else can they take from us?” But when the author repeatedly stumbles on the answer, they pivot back to questioning how a private business runs itself like they don’t see the obvious answer.
Why not stick to the safe operation of the flight as the main criteria rather than saying that not wearing a shirt inside out is “not complying with the directions of airline staff?” If it displays profanity then a quiet word may be a better solution, but Delta and all airlines will need to make it much clearer what is acceptable to wear on their flights when selling tickets.
The man was wearing a Trump shirt. Folks who wear that merch outside are both erratic and lack social awareness to self monitor in stressful situations. Now put that flight into a problematic scenario and ask yourself “is that someone that can reliably handle the pressure to help others without adding risk?”
Delta chose to deboard the passenger when they didn’t comply with a request. Refusing the request is a litmus test for general helpfulness and he failed.
