Is this racial bias?

[Mierin]

You accused me of not reading people's posts.  So I quoted a post I based my statement on about people worrying more about political correctness than child safety.  I'm not sure what more I can do than that.  And just for the sake of accuracy, I did not accuse *everyone* of this.  But it does seem like a handful of posters in this thread act that way.  Until it's pointed out to them.  Then they vehemently deny that they're less concerned with child safety than something that some minor annoyance at a ticket desk, and they resort to things like accusing others of not reading posts and making it hard to have a dialog.  But maybe that's just a posting style thing.  :shrug: 

lol. I didn't post in the topic before you started accusing people of not caring about child safety more than not offending people, except to make fun of someone bringing up ISIS. And you did it multiple times throughout the topic. And I've spent the entire topic saying there isn't irrefutable proof this was racial profiling or racism, and added that maybe this employee does it to everyone.

I think it's appropriate to be more concerned about child safety than about the possibility of offending some person with a brief inquiry.  Apparently you disagree.    

The above response to NM is just a really bad way to start a dialogue if that's your goal. It's very holier than thou.

 

[Redux]

It sounds bad sure.  But you know what headline is worse?

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES TURN BLIND EYE TO CHILD ABDUCTION

 

[BigRedBuster]

It might not have been discrimination at all, but why would it be surprising that a white parent of a biracial baby is discriminated against? It was illegal, what, 60 years ago? There are still going to be people out there who think it's wrong.

I see no indication with the information we have that this woman or child were discriminated against.

 

[Redux]

Are we forgetting that this is an airline?  One of the hardest jobs in the world to avoid profiling customers at the same time they HAVE to profile customers.  Feelings got hurt, it reads and sounds racist/discriminatory when worded a certain way.  But maybe it's just the idiot in me, but my takeaway is this:

Someone was looking out for a childs safety.

 

[Mierin]

I see no indication with the information we have that this woman or child were discriminated against.

There isn't enough information to show that they were. I'm just saying that her being White is irrelevant here because there are people who don't like other people who are with someone not of their race.

 

[Mierin]

It sounds bad sure.  But you know what headline is worse?

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES TURN BLIND EYE TO CHILD ABDUCTION

It is interesting to try to think of it the opposite way. Woman kidnaps child and is allowed through airport security even though the child doesn't look a lot like her (subjective). But woman had the child's birth certificate with her name on it and a passport, therefore what further should the airline have done? I'm not sure checking Facebook profiles is the answer to that question. Seeing photos of both parents might not be either, since both aren't always involved.

 

[ZRod]

It is interesting to try to think of it the opposite way. Woman kidnaps child and is allowed through airport security even though the child doesn't look a lot like her (subjective). But woman had the child's birth certificate with her name on it and a passport, therefore what further should the airline have done? I'm not sure checking Facebook profiles is the answer to that question. Seeing photos of both parents might not be either, since both aren't always involved.

Then you would be looking at federal guidelines being implemented.