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Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight
Washington Post ^ | May 7, 2016 | Catherine Rampell

Posted on 05/07/2016 9:46:45 AM PDT by Republic_Venom

On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse.

Or so dozens of unsuspecting passengers thought.

The curly-haired man tried to keep to himself, intently if inscrutably scribbling on a notepad he’d brought aboard. His seatmate, a blond-haired, 30-something woman sporting flip-flops and a red tote bag, looked him over. He was wearing navy Diesel jeans and a red Lacoste sweater – a look he would later describe as “simple elegance” – but something about him didn’t seem right to her.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: catherinerampell; districtofcolumbia; math; newyork; pennsylvania; philadelphia; profiling; security; syracuse; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Republic_Venom

So?

Profile away.. That’s what profiling its for.


61 posted on 05/08/2016 9:00:57 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: MarvinStinson

No, I point out anti-white behavior by Jews because of how often it is not noticed.


62 posted on 05/08/2016 12:01:10 PM PDT by ruination
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To: ruination

Nobody needs to point out that you are a Jew Hater.


63 posted on 05/08/2016 12:55:14 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Yes, there are many Jews that I hate.


64 posted on 05/08/2016 2:25:01 PM PDT by ruination
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Weapons of Math Destruction ping?


65 posted on 05/08/2016 5:37:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Republic_Venom
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.

The point of this piece - other than to puff up the egos of so-called elites - is to BASH people who voted for Trump. I'll bet money the woman who panicked was a democrat...and the guy who wrote it is a democrat - and the person who leaked it is a democrat.

66 posted on 05/08/2016 5:52:05 PM PDT by GOPJ (Imagine the shrieking MSM outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car... David French)
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To: SunkenCiv

Precious little scumbag. What he really needed was a seat on one of the 9/11 flights.

67 posted on 05/08/2016 6:54:55 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Yogafist

Facts are funny things. Man was an Italian Math genius. She was a ditz who held everyone up for two hours due to her unfounded fear. Sad, but true.


68 posted on 05/09/2016 10:58:25 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Prove it.


69 posted on 05/09/2016 11:47:34 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: ruination; MarvinStinson

“Yes, there are many Jews that I hate.”

Better to spend your time hating American colleges, as they are trying hard to destroy our country. Over the past 40 years, they have purged just about every conservative professor there was in left America, and hired only hard core leftists. By the way, MOST of these hard core leftist professors are NOT JEWISH. By the way, most of the liberal NEOCONS are not Jewish either. No I am not Jewish, but I did marry one. Just to save you some trouble.

Disclosure: Both of my parents were conservative college professors, so I was raised in academia and saw it all begin in the late 1960’s.


70 posted on 05/09/2016 12:27:48 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Less than 2% of the population, yet half the left’s vanguard.


71 posted on 05/09/2016 12:33:50 PM PDT by ruination
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To: Yogafist

Did you read the news article? It’s all there.....I extrapolated that she was a ditz. The rest is factual.


72 posted on 05/09/2016 12:51:36 PM PDT by tioga
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To: ruination; stephenjohnbanker; SunkenCiv; Sarabaracuda; Albion Wilde; Iron Munro; Olog-hai; ...

ruination is posting from the basement of the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC,

They pay him 5 cents a post,

plus all the camel dung he can eat.


73 posted on 05/09/2016 1:02:13 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: tioga

So like many others here, you can read one side of a story, clearly written by an agenda driven author and know what the facts were? I read the story that is why I am suspicious. What does being a math “genius” have to do with the issue? If he had only been marginal in math and she had been described as average intelligence would that have validated her observations? Which by the way are only presented from the point of view of the intended victim.


74 posted on 05/09/2016 1:05:56 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Yogafist

I heard about this on the radio and tv, too. The story was pretty much the same. The man won an award and acclaim for his math in Italy. Genius. He was writing math equations...numbers not Arabic. Facts speak to me. The whole incident was started by someone who knew nothing, but made allegations anyway. Why do you persist in defending that.


75 posted on 05/09/2016 1:15:08 PM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

I’m not defending anything. It may have played out the way this propaganda describes. But I am not going to jump on the bandwagon until I see something fairly reported.


76 posted on 05/09/2016 1:37:32 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: MarvinStinson

Sorry, founding stock American here.


77 posted on 05/09/2016 1:55:57 PM PDT by ruination
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To: ruination

No. You mean founding Jew Hater there.


78 posted on 05/09/2016 2:40:17 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Yogafist

You have no clue at to whether this is fairly reported or not. I’ll stick with what is reported as news as true. since I cannot investigate myself. We do not need to go off half cocked every time we board a plane. All the reporting so far is that it was a ditzy blonde. Let’s leave it at that. Feel free to ping me if another version comes out, I would be curious. Till then, those Big Bang Theory fans and I will laugh at her.


79 posted on 05/09/2016 3:03:00 PM PDT by tioga
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