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[Vilix]

I don't blame her. Differential equations are the work of the devil.

That about sums it up.

Get it?

Okay. I'll just leave now.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

I seems reporting people on planes is the new clutching of purses or walking on the other side of the street

 

[Morrigan Stark]

This is almost funny. The roots of it are not; racism, xenophobia, fear mongering, just putrid stupidity.

But loooool @ mistaking math for Arabic scrawling. Oh I guess they're Arab numbers!! xD

 

[Deku Tree]

It's funny how the Italian UPenn professor who was thought to be middle Eastern describe what happened as an example of Donald "Trumpism". Well it would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

 

[Bubba T]

This is almost funny. The roots of it are not; racism, xenophobia, fear mongering, just putrid stupidity.

But loooool @ mistaking math for Arabic scrawling. Oh I guess they're Arab numbers!! xD

The fact that the woman went straight to Arabic scrawling instead of some other language kind of hints at prejudice.

 

[Deku Tree]

The fact that the woman went straight to Arabic scrawling instead of some other language kind of hints at prejudice.

And a little stupidity since the guy is Italian.

 

[oti]

How can you mistake a differential equation for arabic?

I mean, even you can't solve it you should be able to recognize it for some sort of math.

People on here believe that Omega is the "God of War symbol".

 

[GaimeGuy]

Even if he was writing arabic: So what?

The letters aren't going to jump off the page and attack you. It's a language spoken by 300 million people natively

 

[Dennis]

People on here believe that Omega is the "God of War symbol".

gaming was a mistake

 

[Bubba T]

Even if he was writing arabic: So what?

The letters aren't going to jump off the page and attack you. It's a language spoken by 300 million people natively

The woman was a pre-med student that failed out her first semester and has been bitter ever since

 

[yanipheonu]

"So i looked it up and they're using ARABIC NUMERALS! We gotta stop the plane!"

 

[Four_Chamber]

Horrible but this guy is a boss for the way he handled it. The Washington Post article on this incident is well-written.

Unfortunately, we won't find out who the accuser is- in cases when the person was ridiculously off-base, it would make sense to publicly ridicule the person IMHO.

Al-Gebra wins

 

[johancruijff]

Italian economists cannot be trusted.

i concur

 

[elfinke]

Al-Gebra operatives must be stopped!

Love it.

 

[Tagyhag]

In this true parable of 2016 I see another worrisome lesson, albeit one also possibly relevant to Trump’s appeal: That in America today, the only thing more terrifying than foreigners is…math.

So good. Stupid gonna stupid.

 

[MattKeil]

yo, this dude doesn't even have olive skin.

I'm not saying it was differential calculus...but it was differential calculus.

 

[Kusagari]

My favorite thing about all these "people freak out because Muslim dude is doing something" stories are how the dude in question ends up not even being Muslim.

 

[DarthWoo]

She saw that he tried to divide by 0 so she had to make sure the proper authorities were alerted.

True story, the USS Yorktown once broke for several hours in 1997 because someone entered a zero in a database, causing a divide by zero error.

 

[zashga]

So do you think the woman refused to re-board the plane out of fear, or embarrassment?

People on here believe that Omega is the "God of War symbol".

To be fair, some of us might call it the Warcraft Horde symbol instead.

 

[oti]

To be fair, some of us might call it the Warcraft Horde symbol instead.

I hate video games

 

[Aztechnology]

yo, this dude doesn't even have olive skin.

That dude is pale as hell...

 

[HiredN00bs]

Al-Gebra operatives must be stopped!

Tag-worthy

 

[MWS Natural]

TRUMPS AMERICA.

 

[ScribbleD]

TRUMPS AMERICA.

As fun as it is to blame Trump for emergent overt racism instead of the status quo dog whistle trash, this goes way further back than his run for president. "See something, say something," existed long before Trump.

 

[shira]

30-something woman plz

 

[exmachina64]

Al-Gebra operatives must be stopped!

Republicans are doing their best by reducing funding for public education, but that hasn't stopped educated foreigners from entering the country.

 

[Glendemonium]

I'm thinking more like this:

(We've all dealt with that person.)

*shudder* flashbacks of my customer service days... I recall my most bitchiest customers with a look like that, giant overcompensating sunglasses and all.

 

[jerry113]

Even if someone were writing arabic, who the fuck cares?

 

[Linkyn]

Al-Gebra operatives must be stopped!

Nice.

 

[cameron]

30-something woman plz

She probably thinks she's a survivor/hero after her harrowing discovery of a terrorist plot. Time to share on Facebook.

Let's say the math nerd was in fact writing notes in Arabic or something cryptic. What of it? Is it the fear of scary Moslem occultism? Is he writing a curse on Magical Papyri that will take down the plane?

 

[Condom]

Wow someone was writing Arabic, gotta stop the flight for sure then

What the fuck is that for kind of reasoning? It's a widely used language you morons, not some terrorist code system.

That's almost dumber than thinking math is Arabic

 

[Asmodai48]

Not surprised. Average person would fail a basic math test from what i have seen.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

She probably thinks she's a survivor/hero after her harrowing discovery of a terrorist plot.

Not quite. That woman is not only an idiot, she's also fucking selfish as she didn't actually care for the safety of the other passengers, only hers:

Casey Norton, a spokesman for American Airlines (whose regional partner Air Wisconsin operated the flight), said the woman had indeed initially told the crew she was sick, but when she deplaned she disclosed that the reason she was feeling ill was her concern about the behavior of her seatmate. At that time, she requested to be rebooked on another flight. The crew then called for security personnel, who interviewed Menzio and determined him not to be a “credible threat.” Norton did not know whether the woman was ever notified that Menzio had been cleared. (He said he was not allowed to give out her name for privacy reasons, and since Menzio did not know it either, I have not been able to contact the woman for comment.)

 

[Quonny]

Numbers? Curly, black hair? Olive skin?

v i r a l m a r k e t t i n g

 

[Lord Azrael]

Thought maybe OP meant to write "meth" and it was just a typo, but no, it was actually math... I really shouldn't be surprised anymore...

 

[Devil]

As someone with a relevant ethnicity from abroad: The more I read about incidents regarding amercian airport/flight security and racial profiling, the more I fear that I wouldn't even get the permission to enter the US at the airport after having paid for the flight and the less likely I'm going to ever book one. Shit sounds degrading and like a lottery.

Yes I know this is not exactly regular, but this was just a regional flight within US borders. I can only imagine how paranoid some people will be when it comes to people trying to get in from Europe, especially right now.

 

[MMarston]

I hate video games

 

[Htown]

People on here believe that Omega is the "God of War symbol".

That's ridiculous.

Clearly the Omega represents Darkseid.

 

[dejay]

Plane geometry?

 

[HK-47]

Why does it always seem to be middle aged white women?

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Why does it always seem to be middle aged white women?

30-something is middle-aged now?

 

[bobbytkc]

30-something is middle-aged now?

since when is it not middle age?

 

[Africanus]

Artist depiction:

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Damn those terrorists making those terror notes.

Wait what exactly did they thing he was going to do?

Death note Arabic Edition?
Bring the plane down with his excellent prose?

 

[segasonic]

 

[StalkerUKCG]

30-something is middle-aged now?

Average american life expectancy is 78. 39 would be slap bang middle age. 30 something is the middle age bracket.

 

[Anion]

I'm still dying from her logic

Man with accent writing something down and is paying attention to it deeply. Must be a bomber.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Even if it was Arabic she's still stupid because Arabic writing on paper is neither illegal nor an indicator of terrorism.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Even if it was Arabic she's still stupid because Arabic writing on paper is neither illegal nor an indicator of terrorism.

Terror notes bro.

 

[rjc571]

Artist depiction:

I doubt a UPenn professor was wasting his time solving ordinary 1st order linear equations