The bleeding grey pixels on your avatar make my OCD itchy!
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Ummm YES. Being a tangential target of 3 defamation suits, butt-hurt is legally actionable.
Wait, this is an either-or situation? âWhy is everybody so up in arms about racism, someone died!â
We know how to prioritize our lives and terrible people, thanks for the lesson in how to coddle racists.
Whoa there buddy, stop using your brain and start laughing at the racist jokes right away. Soon enough weâll have you using the phrase âtoo much political correctnessâ without wanting to vomit.
You know that never would have flown at Next back in the day, either. Off by one row of pixels? Immediate fire by Jobs.
I think anyone with an IQ just above room temperature
Oh man, zing!
There is actually a serious point buried in there (albeit unintentional). The contention has been that the names used in the report were racist. Yet, quite clearly westerners also make fun of their own names. However coming up with a name like âDick Hertzâ is not a case of suggesting that western names sound stupid or making fun of western culture in general. Rather it is simply a case of coming up with a plausible western name, that also has another amusing meaning.
Perhaps then it is not so much a case of making fun of a people or culture, but rather it is a general phenomena of trying to find names which are both amusing and simultaneously plausible.
That said, given that people are much more likely to scream âracistâ than ponder on the above possibilities, it is probably best to avoid sharing your amusing foreign names with the whole world.
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I think, legally speaking, it remains to be seen who killed the two passengers.
Part of the problem here is that it was an intern at the NTSB that confirmed the fake names of the pilots, so as far as the station is concerned, they may be stupid, but they did seek verification. So who will you sue next, the NTSB? Good luck with that.
The other problem is that right now the airlines best strategy in this situation is to STFU and not say anything not pertinent to why one/all of their pilots rammed a plane into the ground by what was more than likely pilot error. This tact of trying to distract people from the crash by being âoutraged,â seems a bit distasteful and not in anyoneâs best interest, certainly the people who have suffered in the crash.
Yes, the station is being run by I. M. Punked, Dummer N. Crappe, and Max R. Tarded
Iâm of mixed opinion on this. Yeah, itâs silly that they are going to sue over a joke⌠but at the same time, I am really getting tired of these disaster porn media companies just running with whatever they have without any level of critical thought. Moments before that piece aired, they ran on TV one of their âstingersâ about how they were âFirst, first, firstâ in a wide variety of formats from TV to web to mobile app on various aspects of the plane crash, and how they were accurate every time.
This seems like hubris to me >:D
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Couldnât one make the argument that this incident harmed the reputation of the TV station much more than it did the airline? I doubt very many people actually believed the report, and most seem to think the reporters were the ones who screwed up the most here (by missing the obvious).
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I believe youâll find they are represented by Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, attys at law.
EDIT: @codinghorror Oh, jeez just delete it
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