I am fairly skeptical of this. From what I can see there the entire thing is what the Muslim woman says happened. This is on a plane so obviously there would have been multiple witnesses of at least the guy turning around and yelling at her. Has anyone commented about it? Anyone else post anything on social media? I mean, that would be something I would expect a number of people to post about.
Here is the thing. Racism and prejudice absolutely do exist. But not everything that happens to someone of a minority group is because of that. Yet, if you end up with a victim mentality that everything is about racism then guess what happens? You see it in every circumstance.
A perfect example of this. A colleague of mine in the same position and the same location. On customer service surveys if we do not get all "5" ratings (top rating) on all ratings then we fail. It is not easy. Both of us whom are in the top 5% within our company would end up talking about the surveys that we fell short on. For me, I looked at various circumstances like we work in an affluent market which tends to have higher standards on customer service and not overly generous in giving all 5's. For him? It was because he was black. No other reason. Great guy and we are on that fence of work friends/real friends but if something bad happens- it is because he is black. A customer does not like him? Because he is black. A customer does not buy a product from him? Because he is black. A customer yells at him? Because he is black.
On top of that, you have the people who use the racism card as a weapon. In my industry, I have been the victim of this on so many occasions, I can not begin to have an idea of how many times. From somewhat veiled remarks to outright accusations. When you have this happen to you and you know the situation has absolutely nothing to do with race, you become skeptical in all other instances.
Finally, we are getting bombarded with the leftist narrative about race. Most recently in the form of police use of force. When you have situations that all people know is that the police officer is white and the person who died is black and then they are off to the racism races, it gets tiring and again, you start to wonder about even the genuine times there was racism because the law of averages say that it is not all racism.
Now I am generally skeptical of most anything these days when it comes to some form of political/social narrative, whether it is from the right or the left perspective. It is like how I refuse to open up anything in my facebook feed that says "Blah blah blah and what happens next left me in tears" Or "Blah blah blach and you wont believe what they did" or whatever other form because it is all stuff pumped up to get your attention. Whether it is some stupid thing on facebook or some political/social narrative, the more outrageous the more likely it is that it is either a lie, half truth or being presented in the extreme. That is kind of how I see this.
The mere fact of a speeding fire truck only tells us at most that someone called the fire department, but doesn't establish a fire.
