Mar 012021
 

It should prove interesting to see how this plays out given that there are multiple narratives at play here. In short, a Hasidic family was booted off of a Frontier Airlines flight due to Commie Cough Mask Requirements. According to the family, it was because their 18-month-old baby wouldn’t wear a mask (and those under two are not legally required to do so). According to Frontier, it’s because multiple adults refused to wear their masks (and they *are* legally required to do so). Were the people involved pretty much any other minority religious or ethnic group, the pile-on onto Frontier would be overpowering; the airline would most likely have used a firehose to spray out termination notices.

Narrative one:

Flight Staff Caught Making Anti-Semitic Celebration As Jewish Family Was Removed From Flight When Their 15-Month-Baby Couldn’t Keep The Face Mask On

Narrative two:

Frontier Airlines Defends Canceling Flight, Says ‘Several Adults’ Refused to Wear Masks

As we’ve seen over the past few years, people are seemingly incapable of waiting for the facts to come out before leaping on one side or the other. But in this case, I think we might not see the usual firestorm of the kind normally applied to situations such as this given that the “minorities” involved here are not politically advantageous minorities. Ilhan Omar, for example, seems unlikely to pop out of the woodwork to defend the family and demand that Frontier apologize.

 

Annnnnnd then there’s “overboard:”

‘This is Nazi Germany!’: Airline faces calls for boycott after Jewish family booted from flight over mask-less BABY

The comments in that one are spectacularly toxic.

 Posted by at 3:38 pm