Because it was an open-and-shut case, all of us who were waiting for more info and being cautious given this person's past story were simply victim blaming. /s
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Adam Saleh, popular YouTube racist, kicked off Delta plane for being a jerk
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People in general have trouble admitting they are wrong. Especially on the Internet where you are only a Google search away from another 'fact.'
Killer Queen
Banned
And another ones gone and another ones gone~!
Another one bites the dust~
Audioboxer
Member
I wasn't surprised at the casual antisemitism, but I was a bit about the 9/11 shit. I'm going to assume he's been pretty well off, or at least privileged for a while given his YT metrics, and someone in such a position, and a fresh young mind actually believed the kind of 9/11 conspiracies you'd expect of a cave dweller? An inside job? Humanity, pls. All that life brutally lost and it was America doing it to itself?
Couple people clearly said they would take the L.. crickets...
I'm just some middle age white guy so Im clearly victim blaming racist who hates Muslims. Doesn't matter that the video clearly was staged and fake as fuck and could be verified with two minutes of looking st his YouTube channel.
You didn't read enough of the thread.
Nah I've been following the thread. Messo sat least came to his senses.
Androidsleeps
Member
So is the title not going to be edited?
Because they were supporting a dude that ten minutes of Google would tell you was a 9/11 truther, an attention whore, a Youtube "prankster" - an Airline fake story fake racism troller and an anti semite know nothing piece of shit.
And now a couple of them have kept AT IT hoping that the subject had been so derailed (by them) that we were being racist by not acknowledging Delta's previous eff ups (which evryone did btw).
Meanwhile, racists are going to use THIS GUY'S teardown as proof that racism is over and Political Correctness is destorying America.
it's incredibly hard to express just how fundamentally damaging this youtube idiot and his jump-to-conclusions supporters will have been to a real problem.
Some of those posters were probably coming from a good place, but jesus christ how embarassing that after THIS election, of all moments, liberals are jumping to the exact wrong conclusions based on the very same fake news they have railed against Trumpers for swallowing hook line and sinker.
No pass from me. Accept your L and use some discretion next time. Chumps.
Audioboxer
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What do people mean when they say false flagging? I seen it in the church burning thread.
Just faking something that gets flagged as fake in the end?
Also I don't think there should be satisfaction in people being proven wrong, just that things like this should be a reminder that there are people who take advantage of others for personal gain. It's not nice to have given someone your trust or benefit of the doubt and had it shattered, but it happens. At times we do have a point to investigate claims, and ultimately if someone is a victim any sceptical minds need to drop their stance and offer support. If someone is liar supporters need to call them out if it is lying like this for money/fame.
Blindly supporting Adam Saleh doesn't even come close to letting Trump fool you into thinking he has your interest in mind.
Oh and tomorrow, this piece of shit is going to settle into the following narrative: "I realize my attempt to draw attention to the plight of muslims being persectuted by the TSA was ill-advised and BLAH BLAH STFU."
Don't let him,
He did it for clicks.
If you took an L on this thread this afternoon, then make it a W but not letting him pull that shit, and by just being slightly more diligent next time.
But guys, this was black and white obvious from page one.
At the VERY least the thread title was absolute speculation presented as fact. And it's still there.
Islamophobia is a real and growing issue, and this CHUMP just set back the defences against it by half a decade. Now the low information people have a stupid scapegoat to throw up every time it happens for real.
Don't let him,
He did it for clicks.
If you took an L on this thread this afternoon, then make it a W but not letting him pull that shit, and by just being slightly more diligent next time.
But guys, this was black and white obvious from page one.
At the VERY least the thread title was absolute speculation presented as fact. And it's still there.
Islamophobia is a real and growing issue, and this CHUMP just set back the defences against it by half a decade. Now the low information people have a stupid scapegoat to throw up every time it happens for real.
Always love your posts. Bout to take off check back later.
Darryl M R
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Looking back at my first page post it makes even more sense why I was skeptic.
Like Stinkles said, if you took an L you can turn it into a W by not letting him just apologize his way out of this.
He will be used as an example of people faking being discriminated against in every situation.
This guys is scum and he would profit on the woes of Brown people while making it worse for them.
Like Stinkles said, if you took an L you can turn it into a W by not letting him just apologize his way out of this.
He will be used as an example of people faking being discriminated against in every situation.
This guys is scum and he would profit on the woes of Brown people while making it worse for them.
dr3upmushroom
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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
At this point people want to be outraged and offened instead of being reasonable.
Jack The Nipper
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Is this some idea he has said or someone has said that he is going to do that or is this just your guess?
I see no backing down from him as far as I can tell..
It's what I'd do if for some godforsaken idiot reason I had done what he did.
Except actually maybe I'd mea culpa and apologize and slink away.
Audioboxer
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Young fame like this usually does what TmarTn did and double down first, and then maybe finally passively aggressively apologise by somehow blaming someone else for what they did (or in this case probably using the I highlighted an issue card). All while relying on their large audience bases, usually children or young teens to fish them out and carry on blindly supporting them on YT and Twitter.
While TmarTn is scum that financially abused kids, I hope in this case if Adam has any minority viewers they quickly realize the damage he has caused for them and it's not just financial.
YouTuber Adam Salah and his friend Slim Albaher are on a flight from London to New York.
On the flight Slim Albaher shouts out "om telolot om" four times. After the second time a passenger tells him to stop, at which point Adam tells her "shut up". Slim continues being an absolute moron by shouting out again with Adam recording all. A few other passengers speak up but are welcomed with more abuse from Adam.
As a result of their antics the pair are escorted off the flight but not before Adam whips out his phone to record a video claiming that the reason they are getting kicked off the flight was for speaking Arabic to his mother on a phone call.
Neither Slim nor Adam could align their stories. At first Adam claimed he was talking with his mother on the phone in Arabic. After the call Slim and himself continued to talk amongst each other in Arabic. Surrounding passengers were supposedly uncomfortable with all this Arabic chat that they complained to the flight attendants. This resulted in them getting kicked off. However, a later video from the pair showed Slim admitting to it being all his fault and Adam sticking up for him. A little closer to the truth this time, but still very much a lie.
spiderman123
Member
Good to see the investigation showed that this was untrue..
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Urghhhh, can't stand DeFranco's style of quick cuts........... >____<
Audioboxer
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Quick cuts, the real reason YT stars should be ejected off planes.
I actually don't know how they do it. If I were doing YT I'd just sit and chat away in one video?
Yeah I don't know the guy, although his metrics are crazy. He seems decent though!
Gets the point across and isn't twat, plus isn't get paid for the vid.
Ordinaryundone
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A false flag operation is when you do something bad with the express purpose of making it look like someone else did it. For example, lets say you want person A and person B to fight. You decide to slash the tires on person B's car, and let yourself get caught on film while dressed like person A. Person B is going to assume person A did it, and since he has "proof" he's much more likely to go for immediate retribution rather than try and think it through. I mean, after all, person A is the only person who can refute it and, to person B, he's got the motive to lie. Heck, you could even cut out the middle man and just say Person B slashed his own tires in such a way that makes A look guilty, so he can do something to him while being "justified".
It tends to come up a lot with conspiracy theorists using the logic that "This group would benefit in some way from a tragedy happening to them, ergo, it's possible they manufactured the tragedy themselves". Like people who say the 9/11 attacks were done by the U.S. so we could attack Afghanistan/Iraq, or the classic "burnt down their house for the insurance money". It mostly doesn't make sense because effective false flag operations are SUPER difficult to pull off under any amount of scrutiny and the consequences of getting caught tend to outweigh the benefits (unless you just don't care, of course). That doesn't stop people from seeing them everywhere though.
It's amazing what a little context can do.
17 Seconds
Banned
i now think the people saying "bye" smugly are hilarious
Audioboxer
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Ah okay that explains it perfectly. Quite sinister really.
They turned from rabid racists to people just not putting up with a pranksters shit in a matter of hours.
Yes, but the difference is you're not an idiot.
And the only thing you lie about is your location on a Halo map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGTaMp5txXI
Damn thread is huge. So basically a YT prank douche bag did something dumb and got kicked off a plane and tried to shotgun on other legitimate fliers bad experiences by claiming it was a discrimination thing?
Anything for the views right? Google is full of shit for not banning this pranking shit on YT. Its a fucking cancer, and its only a matter of time before they have to pull the plug on that shit.
Anything for the views right? Google is full of shit for not banning this pranking shit on YT. Its a fucking cancer, and its only a matter of time before they have to pull the plug on that shit.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Exactly. This story. The church in Mississippi? The girl with a hijab story in Michigan? The girl with a hijab story in New York? Sure, the number of hate crimes may have risen, and therefore it's important to highlight the ones that are true and that we can demonstrate with evidence. Otherwise we play right into the hands of detractors.
Racing in and jumping on these stories with unquestioning belief, offering full support and condemning those who remain skeptical makes people look like complete and total chumps.
Jack The Nipper
Banned
I don't expect an apology soon if at all from at all. I think eve if Delta banned him (which they should imo) that he may just double down.
Losing his YT channel, now we might start seeing him say sorry on his new channel. I don't think YT ever removes anyone for such things do they? Only copy right and things against their policies as far as I know.
Losing his YT channel, now we might start seeing him say sorry on his new channel. I don't think YT ever removes anyone for such things do they? Only copy right and things against their policies as far as I know.
They should absolutely sue for damages. His video is one of the most retweeted video on Twitter ever.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I think Youtube itself would have to be sued in order for this to happen. They didn't go into panic mode over copyright until litigation got serious.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Holy shit it has 833k RTs. However this turns out, that is NUTS.
WTF is this.
Nope
@SlimmySlim94
HERES MY RESPONSE TO ALL THE PEOPLE CLAIMING WE LYING!!! TOMORROWS VIDEO WILL BE THE ICING ON THE CAKE
RT https://youtu.be/8SLg57KbajQ
https://twitter.com/SlimmySlim94/status/812176962420674560
"We only make videos with a message" is my fave line.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Delta's gotta have surveillance video don't they? That should be the real proof...
perfectchaos007
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Better late than never for the thread title change
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