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[HiloJulie]

Probably a prototypical example of when to assume the best, and ask questions.

To recap:

In my original post to you answering your question about my claim that all of humanity is inherently discriminitory, I posted this as the last paragraph:

Bringing this back to Hawaii, back when both my husband and I commuted quite often from either Hilo or Kona to LAX, on a significant amount of the "red eye" flights that left Hawaii late at night and arrived in LA at 5AM or so, a numerous amount of those flights had at least one woman, and a surprising amount of those flights had two women "behind the wheel." On several occasions, some of those flights had customers, ALL of them males, and once realizing who was going to be flying the plane were female, decided to not take the flight, and seek other means to go back to LA. Similar to the mentality that lead a recently departed political activist loved by millions of people to once opine that “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”

So, yeah, I'd say that all of humanity is inherently discriminatory. 

The Dude then replied:

a numerous amount of those flights had at least one woman, and a surprising amount of those flights had two women "behind the wheel."
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Doubtful. The longer flights on the big planes are awarded based upon seniority (ask the union on that) and since women pilots were not that numerous they would not have had the flight hours needed to bump their way to those flights. I will ask my friend, captain mark who is now flying semi-retired for American and who flew trip7's for years from DFW to HNL, KOA, OGG and LIH his thoughts. He currently flies 787's twice a month from DFW to various South American cities on contract, for $820 an hour. Nice gig if you can get it!

I then replied to the Dude with these two videos of the woman I have been discussing all along:





And then it started, with this:

land this plane of ideas you're piloting both in Hawaii and about God..

Seems to me reams of waxing nostalgically about black chicks flying planes is a hard stretch. In fact, going on about flying to and fro ain't really got anything to do with Puna, Hawaii either, does it? Though start a thread of its own and see if it flies.. in fact maybe try that whenever the itch strikes. It certainly would make it easier for those that don't use the blocking function to navigate..

As for this particular thread it just seemed like oil and water..

So call it what you may. But calling it anything else other than it being a racist, bigoted, demeaning and/or hateful comment is even a bigger problem than some old white dude calling an accomplished African American, or Black woman a "black chick."