Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight (ethical, suspected)
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Risk taking means being open minded enough to try new things and bring innovation to fruition. It doesn't mean deploying untested new things into production/ real life systems. The conservative mindset will tend to stick to the tried and tested for as long as possible. The army systems and DARPA fund a lot of innovative research... The internet is just one example.
Most internet entrepreneurs do what they do to make money.
So if you see someone non-white scribbling numbers on paper, the first conclusion should be that they are doing something wrong? I just don't understand what could have been so terrifying about numbers on paper..
Edit: Seeing something suspicious is different than the ability to see at all..
Not the point.
I'm merely making fun of a pathetic poster that is caught up in the delerium of the political election season and is trying to somehow tie this to "racist Trump".
It's just going to get worse, the forum nutjobs are already starting to foam at the mouth over Hillary and Trump and I'm not going to humor them.
As one of the few people around here that probably would have understood those "scribbles", your first sentence just makes me chuckle.
However, in the spirit of the thread and your own post I will play along and call you racist because you think that people doing math are just from the far east. Sure, it makes no sense but then again it's a racial witch hunt, it doesn't have to.
No matter how many times I read this post, I'm at a loss to understand why you think it makes any sense at all. Were you somehow under the impression that I am Barack Obama? What on earth does he have to do with any of this? And how does race enter into it? Is this some inside joke or something?
You don't get it because you're racist.
It really that simple.
You don't agree with someones politics or their point on a subject and therefore the other person is racist.
Don't take it out on me, I'm not the one that started this little game. So the choice you have to make is either agreeing with me or else you're racist, even if it's in a discussion over which James Bond actor was the best.
P.S. Do you at least appreciate at all the fact that in 2008 Hillary supporters were deemed racist?
The latest news reports confirm he was a member of a sleeper cell of agents working for Al Gebra. His crime was harboring, aiding, and abetting weapons of math instruction, the nemesis of students all over the country.
1. I am usually asleep within one minute of taking my seat on a plane. Someone could be building a nuclear reactor next to me and I would never know.
2. I never talk or look at anyone on a plane. The flight could be full of zombies or zoo animals- I wouldn't notice.
3. I usually fly first class on domestic flights, so the attendants are paying close attention to anyone in first class; I don't need to play "spy".
4. How can doing math be percieved as threatening?
The most distrubing thing I have encountered on flights is sitting next to someone who wants to talk and won't shut up and let me sleep. I guess I would rather sit next to a quiet terrorist. Sounds like this woman is just an annoying person herself.
I have to wonder what she expected I'm to do, was he going to attack the pilot with a piece of paper with strange writings. Stay vigilant, stay paranoid.
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So the choice you have to make is either agreeing with me or else you're racist, even if it's in a discussion over which James Bond actor was the best. 
