While the title would seem to be redundant, the following story demonstrates especially well how crazy our neighbours to the south are:
A Los Angeles woman is facing a federal assault charge after she allegedly punched and spit on a man aboard a recent Delta Air Lines flight following a mask dispute.
Patricia Cornwall was detained Thursday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after passengers told authorities that she had caused a disturbance on Flight 2790 from Tampa.
Cornwall was returning from the restroom when she saw a flight attendant conducting beverage service and blocking the aisle, according to the complaint. After Cornwall asked the flight attendant to help her find her seat, the flight attendant requested that she find an available seat until the conclusion of the beverage service, the complaint says.
“What am I? Rosa Parks?” said Cornwall, who is White, according to the complaint.
Upon hearing the comment, the complaint says, the male passenger sitting in seat 37C told Cornwall “it was an inappropriate comment and that she ‘isn’t Black … this isn’t Alabama and this isn’t a bus.’ ” He then called her a catchall term popularized in recent years to describe an entitled, demanding White woman who polices other people’s behavior.
“Sit down, Karen,” he said to Cornwall, according to the complaint.
It was then, as they say, that chaos ensued:
YouTube is full of videos similar to this. Other passengers seem to be keeping their cellphones handy ready to capture the event. It's become akin to bird spotting.
ReplyDeleteThose whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Is that what we're witnessing?
Years ago I read a paper on bizarre behaviours of British people during the years of Britain's decline. They even had an evangelical insurgency. I must see if I can find it again. I think there might be a discussion of it in Kevin Philips' 2005 "American Theocracy."
This might lead to some answers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse#Toynbee%E2%80%99s_theory_of_decay
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link and your comments, Mound. The article seems prescient in many ways, and I think there can be little doubt that we are witnessing real decay/collapse in American society. Of course, since they believe in their own exceptionalism, they will not recognize it as such.
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