The Doctor Needed a Mark Bingham on that United Flight
The saddest part of this incident, beyond the tone deaf response of United CEO Muniz, is the cluelessness I keep hearing in the media in its aftermath. I heard a call-in guest on an NPR show try to justify that other passengers just took cell phone videos rather than get directly involved, trying in vain to argue that it wasn't "passive activism". Following that, when answering a question of whether this would have happened to a "blonde white woman or man," one of the commentators answered "Yes." I challenge any adult American with even a modicum of understanding about our history, polity or media to tell me if this was a young, blonde Millenial woman, United and the Chicago PD would knock her to the ground (causing a facial wound and bleeding), then proceed to drag her down the aisle and off the plane the way they did this older Asian man. Furthermore, the passengers videotaping and getting facetime right now affected no change by posting their vi...