Airlines --and even the public railway system, Amtrak-- continue to divide our nation into classes, based on money. If you are wealthier, you can fly business class (with your own private lounge at the airport, and you get on the plane first) or on the train, purchase roomier accommodations and better food.
The teeming masses and the privileged money-elites
Clearly minorities are at a disadvantage (unless they're Asian or Jewish). Isn't there some civil rights legislation that covers this?
It would be unthinkable to separate men from women on planes, or even worse, Whites from Les Peuples de Couleur. So why is this rank classism unchallenged? Even celebrated and encouraged? It's just an economic form of Jim Crow.
I thought we were going to "fundamentally transform" the Evil Amurrican Empire.
If the Feds can enforce "diversity" in our housing, our neighborhoods, our workplaces, our schools, the military...why not on a plane or a train?
What is this? The British Raj?
It's a scandal.
Why they are blind to this evil is beyond me...
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Liberals seem to love the poor, as long as they don't have to get too close to them and the fantasy dies. The thought of having to sit next to some irresponsibly large and obnoxiously loud family of Hispanic yokels far outweighs their concern for "equitable" travel arrangements.
Am I right, or am I right?
-Sean
I remember a saying from years ago about the different attitudes of Northern and Southern Whites to Blacks:
In the South, they don't care how close the Blacks are, as long as they don't get too big.
In the North, they don't care how big the Blacks are, as long as they don't get too close.
The Liberal North has this attitude to many things. A variant of the Games People Play script:
"Let's You and Him Get Equal."
Great minds think alike! I was immediately reminded of that same quote as soon as I read this post.
If the country ever splits into the Conservative States of America and the Liberal States of America, the Liberal States' motto should be "Pro tibi, non me": "For thee, not me."
-Sean
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