If I were a lawyer I'd be camping outside this dude's house like
No, he's just a proud racist.
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United Airlines violently drags a doctor off a plane so employee could take his seat
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If I were a lawyer I'd be camping outside this dude's house like
No, he's just a proud racist.
Randy Monk
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Take them all down David
Feel for his patients as he is going to spend a lot of time in court rooms, unless the companies settle
Feel for his patients as he is going to spend a lot of time in court rooms, unless the companies settle
Which confuses me a bit. He has a Vietnamese name, why was he referred to as being Chinese initially and why is it such a big deal in China? China and Vietnam aren't exactly best buds. Did I miss a part of this story?
old manatee
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Has there been non-twitter confirmation that it's the wrong guy? I can't find anything yet.
Chinese and Vietnamese have a lot of cross pollination.
The Chinese diaspora is like the Jewish diaspora. The Chinese are everywhere, and even when they assimilate, they still consider themselves Chinese. Dao is probably at least part ethnically Chinese.
mightynine
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Oh man, if it turns out that in a rush to victim blame, they put out info on the wrong guy....
This guy is gonna have enough money to buy two airlines
This guy is gonna have enough money to buy two airlines
Randy Monk
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Maybe the story has less to do with race and nationality and more to do with basic decency and humane treatment of paying customers.
He's a deadbeat dad who sucks up to authority?
Not really? I lived in Vietnam for several years and calling a Vietnamese person Chinese was going to go very badly in most cases.
A bunch of those tweets are pretty old, has this been confirmed yet?
This guy is gonna get paaaaiiiiidddd
Fuck Oscar and his smear (now boomerang'd) campaign.
I did a little looking earlier, and not that i have seen, no it hasn't. There was a thread on reddit that a mod posted, but then deleted because the info couldn't be validated. That was this morning.
Kitsunebaby
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God I hope this is true, just to round out how big of a clusterfuck this whole situation is.
Regardless, I just hope this dude sues. I would love it if he doesn't even settle and just punishes this company as much as possible. Maybe then they and other airlines would reconsider their practice of treating paying customers like shit.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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Sorry I've been away from my phone. Yeah I tried looking it up but all I could find are links pointing back to deleted posts and tweets.
Hopefully it's the wrong guy. I can't imagine being dragged through the mud like that on top of that bullshit.
Of course the Doctor was no angel. Of course.
What's next? Are they going to play the "foreigner" route?
They don't have to play the "foreigner" route.
That goes without saying.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
Looks like he's got two attorneys now, one to deal with the personal injury (cops and indirectly, UA) and one against UA on the myriad causes of action he has against it.
She's gonna need to bleach her hair.
mightynine
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Well, the Courier-Journal has other articles where they talked to Dao's co-workers about his return to medicine, so perhaps there isn't a case of mistaken identity here.
He'll have to make due with squeezing enough money to buy just one airline now.
He'll have to make due with squeezing enough money to buy just one airline now.
Escape Goat
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There are many Vietnamese of Chinese-descent in the US, many being refugees from the Vietnam War.
She was so proud of herself.
Hopefully to get a defamation lawsuit on her ass too and she gets the boot.
He's probably no angel either. Someone get to the bottom of this!
Potato=Potatoe
The media running a smear/slander/libel campaign against him is fucking ridiculous.
Like, what does his personal life have to do with his treatment by United Shit Lines? Absolutely nothing.
And to make matters worse, they were apparently talking about the wrong dude? Jesus Christ. Hope this man wins every defamation suit he files.
Like, what does his personal life have to do with his treatment by United Shit Lines? Absolutely nothing.
And to make matters worse, they were apparently talking about the wrong dude? Jesus Christ. Hope this man wins every defamation suit he files.
newtypepilot
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firehawk12
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Asians are so similar even their completely different names look the same.
I don't know who to believe
Chinese-Vietnamese people exist, though a lot of them fled Vietnam during the war. I've got a few friends with surnames like Tran and Huynh who grew up speaking Cantonese.
i mean even then...if they needed their employees 24hrs later...why couldnt they accommodate their employee on a different flight with proper preparations?
A lot of Chinese-Vietnamese were also Chinese refugees from China during/after WWII and the communist takeover... who subsequently fled Vietnam after the Vietnam war.
One of my former best friends is half-Caucasian and half-Viet/Chinese.
edit: There's also a lot of cross-over between Vietnamese and Cantonese populations too as Vietnam and Guangzhou share a border. Many of the border dialects sound like a cross between Vietnamese and Cantonese, although there's a lot of sub-dialects within Cantonese as well...
While I would love for this to be true..has it been verified?
iRAWRasaurus
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sometimes you become the thing you hate.
newtypepilot
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Look guys, US media can be very ignorant when it comes to Asian names.
As shown here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmclgO6w0C0
As shown here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmclgO6w0C0
The sincerity and solemnity with which she reads those ridiculous names will never not be hilarious.
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Jpop
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They will all be fired guaranteed and their papers/websites all have opened themselves up to lawsuits for defamation of character.
Been like half a day now and them getting the wrong guy still hasn't been verified, so I'd be really surprised if that was the case. I mean, it'd be funny as fuck if they tried to "he was no angel" him and they got the wrong guy but it doesn't seem like that's the case.
andthebeatgoeson
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Speaking as a Chinese, I noticed that Chinese people tend to like other Asians more than "westerners", even if they are not best buds
100%TrophyMaster
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Lmao plot twist!!!
Chittagong
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Fake news gotta keep fakin
Yep. The fact that the flight in fact was not overbooked is going to bite them in the ass.
They kicked off four passengers for a reason that had nothing to do with overbooking.
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