That really doesn’t change anything. I’ve been on planes many times when I couldn’t really figure out the details of something weird happening. I often have no idea of what goes on in first class, for example (although I suspect it has something to do with dancing girls and foot rubs). And rumors can take on a life of their own even when contrary evidence is in plain sight. People tend to see what they expect to see.
People here have been accusing you of making up facts where none exist. Well, yeah, it happens. If it can happen from the comfort of your own computer, it can certainly happen in a tense situation where terrorism is people’s top worry.
She was wearing a burqa and weilding a scimitar in one hand and a koran in the other! I seen it! :eek:
That’s a good point and I can see that. I guess I had the impression that the people who were leaping to those conclusions were the ones who had directly observed the incident.
I wasn’t making up new facts, I was drawing conclusions from the facts (or at least what we thought were the facts. My conclusions may have been erroneous (in no small part because the “facts” were erroneous) but I don’t think they were so outrageous or offensive as some people are trying to make them out o be. I appreciate that you at least made an attempt to follow my line of reasoning and address it instead of just calling me an asshole, though.
The flaw in your logic was simply that you assumed that there were only two ways in which people could come to the conclusion of Arab Terrorist. You made the (quite understandable) error of omitting the possibility that people are sometimes lousy witnesses. And of course, it is in this way that such a thing could, in fact, happen to a white woman.