La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for December 10, 2022

As Emeril Lagasse would say, “bam!”

Got bad news for those folks on the Greyhound front.

Strip is from 2015. As is the incident. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/21/southwest-airlines-muslim-middle-eastern-passengers

Bigots are everywhere.

If someone accuses other passengers of “being suspicious”, and it prevents those passengers from boarding, the accuser should also be prevented from boarding until the whole thing is cleared up.

Musta been a fine, quasi-kristian ameriKan

I don’t know the whole story, but it seems the phobic passenger should have been left on the ground, not the innocent targets of her phobia.

This is an old strip from a time when “see something, say something” was the operative directive. We don’t have any information other than the supposed religion of the detainees. For example, did she hear or see something that worried her. Don’t make decisions without all the facts.

Are we ever going to learn that people are people no matter the visible differences???

Thats not cool. Southwest is so much better now. Why smear them?

Well yeah stupid and racist but I’ve seen more than once Muslims protesting about who’s sitting next to them and demanding seat changes, women, Jews, service dogs … also plenty of brown ppl on greyhound! Anywho how are thing in 2015?

Now that’s funny. Have you been on a Greyhound this century? Compute average skintone of those who can’t afford to fly.

Similar incidents have happened because a passenger “made the pilot feel uncomfortable”. Seems like things were a little more mellow on flights in the “old days”. Although you did occasionally get an unscheduled detour to Havana. :)

This reminds me of the story I saw several years ago about a bigoted Karen on a plane complaining loudly about having been seated next to a Black man & demanding that the seating arrangement be changed. Just before departure, a flight attendant walked down the aisle to where the two were sitting & said to the man, “Sir, a seat has opened up in first class. Would you like to move forward?” =BOOM!!!=