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mediamattersforamerica:
Days after United Airlines passenger David Dao was violently removed from an overbooked flight, his local newspaper, The Courier-Journal, published a report detailing the man’s completely unrelated, decades-old “troubled past” and printed photos of his home and office. And now other news outlets are following suit. 100% irrelevant, absolutely disgusting and unacceptable.
And breaking, on Twitter:
The criminal past involves one David Anh Duy Dao.
The guy United beat the shit out of? Dr. David Thanh Duc Dao.
Blows it wide open for the desperate gambit it is, doesn’t it now? Now, it doesn’t even work as a distraction. Even if this person had had some kind of criminal record, and somehow they were going to argue that, based on zero research, their security team somehow knew that, or that it was relevant somehow to this man’s human right to bodily autonomy let alone his right to use a service he paid for without being subjected to physical violence, it would have been flimsy, but now they don’t even have that.
I hope everyone gets sued into fucking paste.
mediamattersforamerica:
Days after United Airlines passenger David Dao was violently removed from an overbooked flight, his local newspaper, The Courier-Journal, published a report detailing the man’s completely unrelated, decades-old “troubled past” and printed photos of his home and office. And now other news outlets are following suit. 100% irrelevant, absolutely disgusting and unacceptable.
And breaking, on Twitter:
The criminal past involves one David Anh Duy Dao.
The guy United beat the shit out of? Dr. David Thanh Duc Dao.
Blows it wide open for the desperate gambit it is, doesn’t it now? Now, it doesn’t even work as a distraction. Even if this person had had some kind of criminal record, and somehow they were going to argue that, based on zero research, their security team somehow knew that, or that it was relevant somehow to this man’s human right to bodily autonomy let alone his right to use a service he paid for without being subjected to physical violence, it would have been flimsy, but now they don’t even have that.
I hope everyone gets sued into fucking paste.
