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Home Front: Politix
Man in Trump gear booted from Southwest flight for removing mask to eat
2020-10-16
[NYP] A black man wearing a "Trump 2020" mask was kicked off a Southwest Airlines after lowering it to eat a snack, a video appears to show.

The passenger — who was also sporting a "Black Voices for Trump" hat — is seen talking to a crew member while holding a bag of mixed nuts and wearing a face mask under his chin.

"Tell us the policy that says he cannot eat with his mask off?" a woman filming the video can be heard asking in the footage shared by SV News. "It’s the hat and the mask — it’s not the eating."

A second video then shows the man leaving the Tuesday morning Tampa-to-Dallas flight.

The incident — which Southwest said came after the man repeatedly refused to wear a mask — was soon tweeted by Donald Trump Jr., who bashed the airline.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  Dissolve the airlines. Start over.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-10-16 17:19  

#11  Virtue signaling is the bigger epidemic. Southwest is now infected with it.
Posted by: Cheremp Omeamble4645   2020-10-16 15:16  

#10  Why is Southwest Airlines so racist?
Posted by: Tom   2020-10-16 13:47  

#9  vague

vogue works too.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-10-16 11:11  

#8  Should have written arbitrarily instead of subjectively above, but you get the idea...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-16 07:13  

#7  At this point the mask and social distancing stuff is just another tailor-made set of vague rules designed to be subjectively enforced for whatever purpose. Like with pencil drawings of soldiers and toaster pastries chewed "into the shape of a gun," zero-tolerance mania is always ready to pounce.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-16 07:12  

#6  "Mah Numberz!"
Posted by: Frank G   2020-10-16 05:00  

#5  ^That's why they also report the proportion of tests that are positive, P2k.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-16 04:12  

#4  Again, what are the number of hospitalizations and deaths not infected. The more you test the more you find infected, the ratio of infected vs death starts to change.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-16 04:02  

#3  Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 7,334 to 348,557
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-16 03:15  

#2  I didn't think air travel could get much worse than Delta. I was wrong.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-10-16 03:11  

#1  US coronavirus cases surpass 8 million as infections spike nationwide
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-16 03:00  

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