PeleSpirit@lemmy.world to Seattle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoOff-duty Alaska Airlines pilot charged with attempted murder after trying to stop engines mid-flightwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-linkOff-duty Alaska Airlines pilot charged with attempted murder after trying to stop engines mid-flightwww.nbcnews.comPeleSpirit@lemmy.world to Seattle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squarePeleSpirit@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·11 months agoThis was a domestic terrorist act, not a suicide. If he had a foreign sounding name, this would be considered in the press differently.
minus-squarefoo@withachanceof.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoAnd what evidence do you have to support that claim? You don’t know this person’s motivations. You’re making assumptions here too.
minus-squarePeleSpirit@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-211 months agoWould you question it if he had a foreign sounding name? Also, if it was something like suicide or something, we would have heard about it by now.
minus-squarefoo@withachanceof.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoHere’s why making assumptions about someone’s motivations less than 24 hours from an event is misguided at best: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/alaska-airlines-off-duty-pilot-arraignment.html Still want to claim this was deliberate terrorism?
minus-squarePeleSpirit@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agoMeh, you go with the odds.
minus-squarefoo@withachanceof.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months ago Would you question it if he had a foreign sounding name? That’s irrelevant. This isn’t a race/nationality thing yet for some reason you feel the need to make it one. Also, if it was something like suicide or something, we would have heard about it by now. It has been less than 24 hours. How in the world would we have known this person’s full intentions by now?
This was a domestic terrorist act, not a suicide. If he had a foreign sounding name, this would be considered in the press differently.
And what evidence do you have to support that claim? You don’t know this person’s motivations. You’re making assumptions here too.
Would you question it if he had a foreign sounding name? Also, if it was something like suicide or something, we would have heard about it by now.
Here’s why making assumptions about someone’s motivations less than 24 hours from an event is misguided at best: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/alaska-airlines-off-duty-pilot-arraignment.html
Still want to claim this was deliberate terrorism?
Meh, you go with the odds.
That’s irrelevant. This isn’t a race/nationality thing yet for some reason you feel the need to make it one.
It has been less than 24 hours. How in the world would we have known this person’s full intentions by now?